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RICK HUSKEY: QUEERCORE PODCAST

  • Dec 22, 2025
  • 1 min read

Updated: Jan 30

NORTHFIELD GAY LIBERATION FRONT


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Rick Huskey at a rally supporting a St. Paul, Minnesota, ordinance banning discrimination in employment and housing by unknown, 1977.

In this episode, we have Dr. Rick Huskey, a physician and theologian who was instrumental in the creation of Affirmation: United Methodists for LGBTQ Concerns. As a college student in 1971, Rick was one of the first to help create the Northfield, Minnesota, Gay Liberation Front. He later took the fight for LGBTQ inclusion in the United Methodist Church head-on and challenged the church from within. Doing so cost him nearly 30 years of being able to be ordained. Rick lived his life in faith, quietly resisting the church to the best of his ability until he was finally ordained as a United Methodist Elder, just one day before he passed away.


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