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Last Dance: Reflections on Fire Island After Fifty Years

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By Geoff Holter
After the first tea dance, and probably too many cocktails, I wandered down the boardwalk to the famous—or infamous, if you like—hook-up space, the "meat-rack." The post Last Dance: Reflections on Fire Island After Fifty Years appeared first on The Gay & Lesbian Review.

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Mars & Me

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By Gabe Montesanti
There was something familiar about him: his charisma and smile. I learned that he also did drag, and he handed me his phone to scroll through pictures from the night he was crowned King of Pride. The post Mars & Me appeared first on The Gay & Lesbian Review.

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Queers in Class

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By Lori Horvitz
A handful of students claimed homosexuality was not natural; others said they’d think about killing themselves if they had the virus. At the time, I struggled to come out. The post Queers in Class appeared first on The Gay & Lesbian Review.

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Gay Pride: Body, Mind, and Spirit

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By Anne Ierardi
A year later, psychologist and grandmother Buffy Dunker spoke at Gay Pride from the same stage, exhorting us to leave the moth balls behind and come out. She wowed those of us in the closet that day. If she could come out at age seventy, I could do it too! The post Gay Pride: Body, Mind, and Spirit appeared first on The Gay & Lesbian Review.

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Pride and Acceptance in San Francisco

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By Matthew Bamberg
San Francisco’s epidemic tidal wave began just a few short years before Dianne Feinstein heard gunshots in San Francisco’s City Hall, and then found Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk with a spatter of gunshot wounds that killed them both. It was time for my coming out. The post Pride and Acceptance in San Francisco appeared first on The Gay & Lesbian Review.

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