Adrian was born in Los Angeles, California. It was World War II. At work at Intersection, I met a street youth named Joel Williams, who seemed like such an angelic soul Adrian Ravarour (third from right) by Alexander Akin, 1966. I held ongoing meetings once a week for ten months teaching gay rights. , human rights, and other examples of Dr.

raised in Chicago, Gary came out as a teenager in the early 1960s and quickly became immersed in the fight for gay rights. After a brief stint in Los Angeles, he returned to Chicago and became involved with the Gay Liberation We stayed together for eight years, and then he moved away to join a commune in San Francisco. I could tell what was right, what was wrong.

He maintained that Marine mentality and fought in the front lines of LGBTQ rights his entire career. They picked us up in their arms and threw us up in the air, because we were what they were fighting for Then we had to fight them. One of the things in the 1970s that was a major problem in Los Angeles, and was typical of the entire

Later that year, Gay Liberation Fronts popped up worldwide, and radical queers began fighting for the equal rights they knew they deserved. Each CR group had about eight people in it. these eight people, and they would talk to, let's say, each one would talk to five people. History • Gay Liberation Revolution: Perry Brass, Warren Blumenfeld, and Tahara Oral History •  Los Angeles

NEW YORK CITY GAY ACTIVISTS ALLIANCE Hernan Figuero and Rich Wandel (right) by unknown, circa 1970. for "zaps," public demonstrations designed to embarrass public figures and draw attention to LGBTQ+ rights We stayed there one night, and they were welcoming. We ended up in Albany a night early. Stories • George Raya: Society for Homosexual Freedom & Sacramento GLF • Llee Heflin & Don Kilhefner: Los Angeles

has an inherent similarity to other oppressed minorities and a collective interest in other minority rights those who don't have any hangups about it to consistently become involved in the pursuit of individual rights Related Stories • Keith St Clare Full Interview • Starting Vanguard: Adrian Ravarour Interview •  Los Angeles

WILD HONEY, FANNY, PERFORMER Jean Millington (left), June Millington, Alice de Buhr, Nickey Barclay (right Later in 1969, she moved to Los Angeles and started the band Fanny. She played guitar and sang. Then we went out together in Los Angeles, and I eventually ended up with Tret Fure. We learned to ignore people's voices and their sneers, especially when we got on stage right away.

Christine Jorgensen was about as different from me as you can possibly imagine: tall, thin, blonde, lights The interior is lit entirely by red light bulbs. The Center for Special Problems was run by a trans woman named Angela Keyes Douglas, who believed that He looked like an ad for weightlifting, and he smiled at me, and Angela said, ‘You lie down.’ After a while, Angela says in this strange voice, she says, ‘How does it feel?’

Right on, girl! You get in for free. ​ Initially, she did not know who I was. We acknowledge and bow in honor of the people who fought on the frontlines of civil rights. After a while, the Mafia noticed that their bars were emptier and emptier on Saturday nights. I said, 'Then you better shoot me right here because we're not going anywhere.' They went over to Martha Shelley, who looked like a little cherubic angel, and asked her, 'Do you know

There was a big snowball fight between the girls and the boys, and I was on the girls' side, but I don't She started teaching in Jamestown, and one night, Jane was in the Buccaneer Lounge, a gay bar, when a So the first thing she did was create her PR list, which was 5000 people, which I think we might have • Agosto Machado, Ruby Lynn Reyner, Tony Zanetta Oral History • Llee Heflin and Don Kilhefner: Los Angeles

It came to my attention because we are currently spotlighting LGBTQ activists outside New York, Los Angeles powerful political statement that questioned the very foundation of a society that denied them their rights Many people were writing Louisville Free Press articles and challenging civil rights issues, gender issues They would need a place to stay a night or two on the couch. Just speak your truth and do what you have to do that is right and just.”

But on the night of the council meeting, a woman named Diana showed up at the hospital. They were terrified of what I might do. It was a surreal moment. One guy, who had polio and couldn’t really fight, decided to leave. Fights broke out. To me, it's like an alcoholic having a drink—the anger comes back.”

work was part of a wave of cultural and political resistance that sought not only to secure LGBTQ+ rights Right after college, between 1966 and 1969, I lived in New York. Another time, on Halloween night in 1969, we protested outside the San Francisco Examiner to challenge We were considered mentally ill and didn’t have any rights. It was an oppressive situation. Other disruptions later happened in Los Angeles and in Washington, D.C. This was all so long ago.

The first MCC worship service was held in his Los Angeles home with just 12 attendees, but the movement Reverend Troy Perry: I was 24 years old and had just moved to Los Angeles. When I was in Los Angeles, I met someone named Madeline Nelson. bathtub, put tourniquets on my arms, got me dressed, and rushed me to County General Hospital here in Los Angeles Within a year and a half, we were running over a thousand in attendance in worship service here in Los Angeles

disorder with someone else, you go one plus one is two, two plus and two is four, four plus four is eight Related Stories • Keith St Clare Full Interview • Starting Vanguard: Adrian Ravarour Interview •  Los Angeles

Warren Blumenfeld is a pioneering LGBTQ+ rights activist, educator, and writer whose journey has spanned Director of The LGBTQ History Project “I was born in New York City, and we lived there until I was eight My father could no longer make a living, so in 1955, he moved the family to Los Angeles, where he was I was intimidated, but my roommate went there every night, it seemed. As a holocaust scholar, I've been back to my ancestral town in Poland eight times—I really felt like

When I was eight, my dad moved us down to southern New Mexico, which was a great boon. I read the Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream. I worked as a waitress and could afford rent, but I could not afford heat, light, or food, and I was So we went off to do our best to foment such a thing, whatever that might mean. We were right in the middle of all of this activity.