Obuary – Seattle Gay Scene

Contents:

• JACK ANRSON, UNSELOR TO SEATTLE’S GAY MUNY, DI AT 84
• SEATTLE GAY NEWS CHARTS A PATH TO THE FUTURE AFTER ATH OF LONGTIME EDOR GEE BAKAN

JACK ANRSON, UNSELOR TO SEATTLE’S GAY MUNY, DI AT 84

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Fifty years ago, Jack Anrson was a welg ear for gay men to talk to, at a time when that was extremely difficult to fd.

Anrson was at the foreont of major events Washgton state’s gay history, leadg efforts to repeal the state’s homophobic anti-sodomy laws and workg wh Kg County to rpond to the HIV/AIDS epimic the mid-1980s. Gay men didn’t have a place to discs gay matters.

SEATTLE GAY NEWS CHARTS A PATH TO THE FUTURE AFTER ATH OF LONGTIME EDOR GEE BAKAN

Other therapists jt didn’t have a clue how to handle the realizatn that ‘I was a gay man, ’” Ingersoll ’d bee life-long the mid-1980s, as the extent of HIV/AIDS epimic was beg known, Anrson worked on ntract for what was then lled the Seattle-Kg County Department of Public Health while matag his practice. “We had a lot of staff who were gay men, and this was when after diagnosis the early days, the lifpan was 12 to 18 months. ”A and a half before Dan Savage began his sex advice lumn, Anrson was wrg a syndited one for the Seattle Gay News.

”Anrson knew about growg up gay that on March 5, 1936, he remembered kids at school Irvg, Texas, tntg him, “Jack is a sissy. But you jt uldn’t be gay Texas at the time. ”It wasn’t until age 33, he said, that “ dawned on me I was gay.

“Thanks to the ‘gay mafia, ’ I have had good luck jobs, vtg, etc.