I take some photographs to help myself with the lighting. I collect data—finding those things and analyzing them: how the light falls, shadows, and all of that Then I begin adding whites, lights, and then colors, cold colors, warm colors, and highlights. it gains more attention, so you kind of just being put in a little box, and sometimes that box feels tight Stories • George Raya: Society for Homosexual Freedom & Sacramento GLF • Llee Heflin & Don Kilhefner: 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.

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

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

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 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.”

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

Eventually we kind of let that drift away, and we focused much more on women's rights and then lesbian rights, understanding that there was a connection that all women were being impacted, particularly the I don't believe achieving this goal through armed struggle is the right approach. Project • George Raya: Society for Homosexual Freedom & Sacramento GLF • Llee Heflin & Don Kilhefner: Los Angeles

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?’

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.”

Their stories remind us that queer resistance didn’t happen only in New York, San Francisco, or Los Angeles—it August: Hiram, you told me that you learned about the Gay Liberation Front by attending a meeting in Los Angeles It wasn't very long after that that I went to Los Angeles briefly just to visit my grandfather. So what if it's Tallahassee and not Los Angeles? Let's just do it." That was the start. of a woman to decide what to do with her own body and the right of LGBTQ people to have rights and to

Maher: Anger. Anger gave me the audacity. This little light bulb went off. I knew that I had to keep it secret. We know that somehow. I also had a bit of anger towards the reticent gay community, because they were just so afraid. They've changed it into an incongruent angle-meets-horizontal line. It's just out of kilter. The '70s for me was at least nine straight years of extreme radicalism and anger at the horror of the

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

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.

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

The appointment was at night. The cops had put up riot lights. There was huge lighting. It was very, very theatrical. people, of course, from the New York GLF; the Washington GLF; the Atlanta GLF; San Francisco and Los Angeles She looked like a little angel with blue round glasses. This was something to fight for–we would fight for this.

Each CR group had about eight people in it. The GLF people, and there were women involved too, started to really fight back, just fight back physically The cops had brought out their riot lights, so there was a lot of light going on there. August: Don Kilheffner, who is in the Los Angeles Gay Liberation Front, says it's important not to call You could go back night after night, and you got to be roommates. Nobody had much money.