STORIES FROM THE CAMPUS CLOSET / UC Berkeley's 1950s gay, lbian alumni tell history

Contents:

• STORIES FROM THE CAMPUS CLOSET / UC BERKELEY'S 1950S GAY, LBIAN ALUMNI TELL HISTORY
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR STUDI
• LBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENR STUDI (LGBT)

STORIES FROM THE CAMPUS CLOSET / UC BERKELEY'S 1950S GAY, LBIAN ALUMNI TELL HISTORY

Wt also drew on historil pollg on legalizatn of gay marriage and marijuana e to monstrate how both public policy issu took 30 to 40 years to reach 60% of voter support. Mildred (Jefey) Dickemann took part an oral history scribg gay and lbian life at Universy of California at Berkeley the 1950s. Chronicle photo by Kendra Luck2000-09-06 04:00:00 PDT BERKELEY -- Gay and lbian stunts at the Universy of California at Berkeley may have been forced to rema the closet 50 years ago, but that didn't stop them om venturg out to gay bars San Francis wh their straight iends.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR STUDI

"It was a kd of show for them, a cursy, " relled Mildred Dickemann of the people who acpanied her to Focch's, the Black Cat and Mona's North for the closeted gay llege stunts, gog to the bars was much more than a passg para.

Many of Kelly's iends did not know Kelly was gay and even though he was havg trysts wh men, Kelly did not thk of himself as homosexual. "You always thought that you were gog to get married, " said, Dickemann and five other gay alumni told their stori for an oral history project lled Gay Bears.

LBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENR STUDI (LGBT)

The llectn, the Universy Archiv at UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library, is the first documentatn of gay life on mp.