PERRY BRASS, DON KILHEFNER: QUEERCORE PODCAST

NEW YORK CITY GAY LIBERATION FRONT, LOS ANGELES GAY LIBERATION FRONT

Don Kilhefner (left) and August Bernadicou by August Bernadicou, circa 2022.

Perry Brass and Don Kilhefner were active in the movement when gay liberation was just beginning and had not yet been recognized as such. Shortly after the Stonewall Riots in 1969, Don became a member of the Los Angeles Gay Liberation Front and a founder of what would become the Los Angeles LGBT Center. Perry Brass became active in New York's Gay Liberation Front and worked on Come Out!, one of the first newspapers published during the gay liberation movement. He later co-founded the East Coast healthcare network, Callen-Lorde.

For the past 50 years, both men have remained strong advocates for the gay movement and its history through their work as writers, organizers, activists, and witnesses to the struggles and achievements that transformed American society. The two men discuss the origins of gay liberation, the individuals who created it, the events that defined it, and the lessons today's youth need to learn from it.

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