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
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Ilkka Saastamoen/Cizen Jane ProductnsOn June 11, the New York Irish Center Long Island Cy will host a screeng of “Who We Love, ” Graham Cantwell’s tenr g-of-age dramedy about a young woman who navigat Dubl’s gay scene wh her flamboyant bt iend. The first night’s program clus piec om the emergg posers Connor D’Netto, Alexis Lamb and Rosśa Crean; the send night featur a strg septet performance of “Gay Guerrilla, ” a mimalist work by the queer poser Juli Eastman. Words and PicturOn June 8, the historian Gee Chncey, who teach Amerin history at Columbia Universy, will prent a talk lled “Gay New York: 1930-1970” at the New-York Historil Society.
Chncey will draw on the s vered his long-awaed follow-up to his groundbreakg 1994 book “Gay New York: Genr, Urban Culture and the Makg of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. Info: The ftivi will beg wh the annual Pri kick-off celebratn, lightg of Cy Hall rabow lights, performance by the Gay Men’s Chos and the prentatn of the Steven Shellabarger Illumator Award.
Where: Tracy Park, 9th Street, Gay Street, Portsmouth, OH. Jo Rs Tripi, a profsor of Queer Theology at John Carroll Universy, for this ee workshop on how to nstct the biblil passag that are often ed to bat gay and lbian people. The astal sailg legend and Mae gay rights pneer died six months earlier the fall of 2012.
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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.