The police raid on the Stonewall Inn New York Cy fifty years ago this week, and the ensug vlence, is often creded wh sparkg the morn gay…
Contents:
- STONEWALL AT 50: EXAMG MICHIGAN'S GAY HISTORY
- “GAY OM GAYLORD” EXPLOR GROWG UP LGBTQ NORTHERN MICHIGAN
- IS THERE GAY IN IT?
STONEWALL AT 50: EXAMG MICHIGAN'S GAY HISTORY
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The police raid on the Stonewall Inn New York Cy fifty years ago this week, and the ensug vlence, is often creded wh sparkg the morn gay rights movement. To mark the 50th anniversary, WKAR is explorg gay life Michigan those ’s Stt Pohl talks about that wh Tim Retzloff of MSU’s Center for Genr Global Context.
“GAY OM GAYLORD” EXPLOR GROWG UP LGBTQ NORTHERN MICHIGAN
He’s a historian who has done extensive rearch on gay and lbian Retzloff’s rearch on Michigan’s gay history has produced an encyclopedic knowledge of gay and lbian life the state. ”Michigan liquor ntrol regulatns ma unlawful to operate a bar where homosexuals gathered until 1979, ten years after Stonewall.
IS THERE GAY IN IT?
“Up until 1969 and 70 and this perd right after Stonewall, when thgs started to change, people livg what we would now ll LGBTQ life, " explas Retzloff, "back then, they jt would have said gay life, so we’ll ll gay life, lived largely closeted existenc.