Last Dance: Reflections on Fire Island After Fifty Years

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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Gay Pride: Body, Mind, and Spirit

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

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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