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.
Contents:
- WRER ROXANE GAY TAK THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME
- RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
WRER ROXANE GAY TAK THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME
On a Silversea cise to Antarcti, wrer Roxane Gay and her wife, Debbie Millman, vis pengus and icebergs, and (attempt) to see a solar eclipse. * the trip gay *
Roxane Gay, thor of the New York Tim bt-sellg llectn of says Bad Femist, has several tl to her name, cludg wrer, cultural cric, and the most recent addn, the Gloria Steem Endowed Chair at Rutgers Universy–New Bnswick. She is currently workg on two TV shows: Negroland, an adaptatn of the wrer Margo Jefferson’s memoir, and The Banks, which is based on Gay’s graphic novel of the same name.
RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
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. 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.