Gay, Aled J - Dickson-Streeter Funeral Service Obuari

Contents:

• ALED JAM GAY OBUARY
• ALED A. GAY OBUARY
• ALED A. GAY
• ALFRED J. GAY
• GAY, ALED J - DICKSON-STREETER FUNERAL SERVICE
• ALED JAM GAY OBUARY
• OBUARY OF ALED GAY
• ALED B. GAY, JR.

ALED JAM GAY OBUARY

Wh heavy hearts, we announce the ath of Aled Jam Gay of East Longmeadow, Massachetts, born Websterville, Vermont, who passed away on March 22, 2023 at the age of 93. Leave a sympathy msage to the fay on the memorial page of Aled Jam Gay to pay them a last was preceased by: his father Charl Gay, Jr.

; his former wife Mildred Lundquist Gay; his wife Barbara Gorrod Gay; and his brother William "Buddy" Gay. He is survived by: his children, Valerie Dulu (Harley) of Southwick, MA and Jam "Jim" Gay (Deidra) of Big Sprg, TX; his grandchildren, Christe Burns (Tony) of Wtfield, MA, Julianne Rolfe (Kev) of Southwick, MA, Jt Gay (Melanie) and Trevor Gay of Carlsbad, NM; his great grandchildren, Hanna, Mason, Wton, Harly, Tyler, Max and Mil; and his nephews, William Gay and Pl li of flowers, memorial gifts may be directed to Shrers Hospals for Children,, or to St Ju Children's Rearch Hospal,. Gay (Lexgton, Michigan), who passed away on May 9, 2020 at the age of 66.

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Gay to pay them a last was loved and cherished by many people cludg: his mother Anne; and his wife Kathere (Halloween).

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GayView memory boardShare a memory, offer a ndolenceShare obuaryLet your muny knowListen to this storyHear your loved one's obuarySend flowersLet the fay know you are thkg of themPlant a treeGive to a fort need their memoryView memory boardShare a memory, offer a ndolenceShare obuaryLet your muny knowListen to this storyHear your loved one's obuarySend flowersLet the fay know you are thkg of themPlant a treeGive to a fort need their memoryAled A. GayLexgton66, 09-May, Pomeroy Lexgton Funeral onle on September 07, 2021Published Tim Herald.

GAY of East Longmeadow, MA died March 22, 2023 at the age of 93.

ALFRED J. GAY

Gay, Aled J - Dickson-Streeter Funeral Service. Ary for beg gay, she beme an early fighter for gay rights and a proment figure the nascent L. Rights Vcenz rryg a plard prottg the ary’s ban on gay people while picketg the Pentagon July 1965.

Her discharge om the ary over her homosexualy had turned her to an Tob/The New York Public LibraryPublished July 19, 2023Updated July 23, 2023Lilli Vcenz, who beme a gay rights activist the hhed, reprsive era before the Stonewall rebelln of 1969, when such a ncept srcely existed, makg a mark as a newspaper edor, documentary filmmaker and psychotherapist voted to L. She was ath, at a re facily, was nfirmed by a niece, Julia Bo, who did not specify a Vcenz’s journey to promence the nascent gay rights movement of the mid-1960s began after a personal llisn wh tolerance. In 1963, she was servg the Women’s Army Corps when a roommate outed her as gay, leadg to her discharge after only ne months took that rejectn as an opportuny to beg a fight agast jtice that would gui her for s.

“After leavg the WAC, ” she said an terview wh the se Gay Today, “I actually felt ee to be me.

GAY, ALED J - DICKSON-STREETER FUNERAL SERVICE

Vicenz beme, by most acunts, the first lbian to picket the Whe Hoe support of equal rights for gay people as a member of the Mattache Society of Washgton, an early gay rights prott — the first of s kd, acrdg to the Library of Congrs — and others that followed were small but brought visibily to a movement s fancy.

” she told Gay Today about her early efforts wh the society.

“Be wh gay people, help the movement, help unmask the li beg told about , rrect the notn of homosexualy as a sickns and prent as is, a betiful way to love. Vcenz beme the edor of the Mattache Society’s monthly newsletter, The Homosexual Cizen.

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In 1969, she and another activist, Nancy Tucker, spun off a newspaper of their own, The Gay Bla, which beme the Washgton Bla, the untry’s olst L. Vcenz beme the first out lbian to appear on the ver of a natnal gay magaze, The Ladr, a publitn produced by the untry’s first lbian-rights group, the Dghters of Bilis, acrdg to a retrospective on her life and reer by Lillian Farman, a historian of lbian and gay her scbbed, all-Amerin looks, Dr. Vcenz looked like “every mother’s dream dghter, ” as Barbara Gtgs, The Ladr’s edor, put Vcenz also ntributed to the e on the other si of a mera, makg two 16-limeter films that were later hailed as signifint artifacts of the early gay rights first, tled “The Send-Largt Mory, ” documents a Mattache Society prott ont of Inpennce Hall Philalphia on July 4, morn ey, the black-and-whe film, roughly seven mut, seems anythg but seismic.

“The whole notn of gay people publicly exprsg their sentiments that fashn was beyond nceptualizatn until we started dog , ” the Mattache Society’s -founr, Frankl E.

”Her send film, “Gay and Proud, ” documented the Christopher Street Liberatn Day Para 1970, a memoratn of the first anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg Manhattan. The uprisg, after a police raid at Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Greenwich Village, was a turng pot the gay rights movement.

OBUARY OF ALED GAY

“Gay and Proud” shows a much larger, and shaggier, gatherg of protters takg a more ant stance the para, chantg fiantly and wavg plards wh msag like “I am a lbian and I am betiful. ”In addn to providg a “val piece of gay history, ” Ms.

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Vcenz’s films “gave visual documentatn of the astonishg distance that the gay movement had traveled between 1968 and 1970.

“I fd a privilege to work wh gay people, ” she PrsLilli Marie Vcenz was born Hamburg, Germany, on Sept. J., Vcenz regnized her sexualy early on, she said a 2008 terview, and “ beme paful after a while to realize that I was gay and I didn’t know anyone else who was gay. But after a stt as an edor the book publishg dtry, she cid to jo the Army, part bee she had heard was “a hotbed of gay people, ” acrdg to Ms.

Farman’s putative hotbed, however, had a policy banng gay people om service, and she was thrown out while trag as a nropsychiatric technician at the Walter Reed ary hospal the 1970s, Dr. Vcenz ran a weekly discsn ssn lled the Gay Women’s Open Hoe, which functned as a marketplace of ias and sanctuary of sorts for lbians the Washgton area.