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After beloved longtime edor Gee Bakan died last year, his dghter, Angela Crag, hered the Seattle Gay News and hired some new people. The publitn is movg forward, strivg to...

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

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SEATTLE GAY SCENE is Seattle’s Leadg LGBT muny webse, and most vised lendar the regn. We also proudly serve as media sponsors for a number of amazg lol anizatns, cludg: Gay Cy Health Project, Lifelong AIDS Alliance, SIFF, Three Dollar Bill Cema, Qulture Qreative & Hard Tim Prs, NARK Magaze and Ban Strip to help brg some of the most excg live events and entertament the cy. 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.

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

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. 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.

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