Steve Bull once raced agast time to try to save the memoirs of one of Mae's gay rights pneers. His trip led him down memory lane.
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RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
* gay in the 40s *
The astal sailg legend and Mae gay rights pneer died six months earlier the fall of 2012. Bull and Hasks helped found the groundbreakg stunt group at the Universy of Mae 1973 — then held the first Mae Gay Symposium 1974, which jump-started Mae’s LGBTQ+ rights stggle, lnchg much further ahead toward jtice than most other stat. They are also anizg a 50th anniversary Mae Gay Symposium Orono and Portland this fall.
They named Wil Ste after the famo gay and lbian wrers Osr Wil and Gert Ste.
BEG GAY THE 1940’S
The club was part of the first wave of gay and lbian stunt groups tryg to w official regnn om llege admistrators. “Homosexuals nnot reproduce, therefore they mt rec. A photographic ntact sheet showg Steven Bull speakg at the first gay symposium put on by the Wild Ste Club at the Universy pf Mae 1974, is part of Bull’s papers hoed the Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversy’s LGBTQ+ llectn at the Universy of Southern Mae.
One of the qutns was, “Do you have any homosexual tennci? A week before the Universy of Mae board of tste was to ci Wil Ste’s fate January 1974, the club issued a prs release about s tentn to hold the first Mae Gay Symposium April. That same week, gay and lbian stunts New Hampshire won their right to anize feral urt.
The symposium featured anizg meetgs, discsn panels and speakers, cludg Morty Manford of New York Cy’s Gay Activists Alliance.