NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to 90-year-old Hector Black about his life as a closeted gay man who didn't e out until he was 70 years old.
Contents:
- BLACK, GRAY AND GAY: THE PERILS OF AGG LGBTQ PEOPLE OF COLOR
- BLACK, GAY AND GRAYG GRACEFULLY LOVE
- 81-YEAR-OLD MAN ALLEG HE WAS JAILED FOR HAVG GAY SEX
- 90-YEAR-OLD GAY MAN RELLS LONG STGGLE WH HIS SEXUALY
BLACK, GRAY AND GAY: THE PERILS OF AGG LGBTQ PEOPLE OF COLOR
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BLACK, GAY AND GRAYG GRACEFULLY LOVE
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Plans ll for 15 efficiency uns, a “stone wall” on the grounds memoratg the 1969 Stonewall Inn Rts and a yellow brick road — a nod to days past when gay men would clanstely intify each other by askg, “Are you a iend of Dorothy? Sign up for the ia of growg old as a gay man ed to terrify me.
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81-YEAR-OLD MAN ALLEG HE WAS JAILED FOR HAVG GAY SEX
Gay history is Black history. * black old gay *
” We were troduced by Curtis Lipsb, the executive director of LGBT Detro (also featured the book), who, hearg me lament the arth of olr gay men my life, sisted that I meet this uple. He scribed them as “val” to the cy’s gay Black muny, and was easy for me to unrstand why: I spent my teen years Detro.
90-YEAR-OLD GAY MAN RELLS LONG STGGLE WH HIS SEXUALY
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“We’ve dited our liv to makg sure younger gay Black people know that they n grow old, and that they’ll have somethg to live for.