Wanda Gay Reece Obuary (1949 - 2023) | Prceton, Wt Virgia

Contents:

• RICHARD P. GAY
• RICHARD F. GAY
• RICK STOK, 'THE OTHER GAY MAN' WHO RAN AGAST MILK, DI
• WANDA GAY REECE OBUARY
• RICHARD GAY OBUARY
• RICHARD J. GAY
• RICHARD JOHN GAY

RICHARD P. GAY

Richard “Dick” Gay, beloved hband of the late Marn Gay, passed away peacefully at home 12/16/21 wh fay at bedsi. He will be eply missed by his lovg children Kathleen MacDonald and her hband Leo, David Gay, Donna Vachon and his niece Barbara Adamo and her hband Bill, his grandchildren Craig and his wife Crystal, Michelle and her hband Ross, Guy and his wife Dev, Stephanie and her hband Greg, Alyssa and her hband Brian, Sheena, and his great grandchildren William, Ey, Cullen, Carole, Gregory, Aviana, Wyatt and baby Mac. Gay, please vis our floral store.

Gay, 58, of Dunbar, passed away, Saturday, October 9, 2021 at home. Gay Jr. Upton Gay; children, Richard L.

Tate; grandchildren, Logan Tate and Haylee Tate; siblgs, Ben Gay, Clarence Gay, Charlie Guillemo, Marlene Guillermo and his bt iend of 40 years, whom he loved like a brother, Robert Esquivel. GAY, please vis our floral store.

RICHARD F. GAY

Rick Earl Stok, famoly "the other gay ndidate" who ran agast Harvey Milk for San Francis supervisor 1977, died May 3. Stok died San Francis after a brief battle wh ngtive heart failure, acrdg to an obuary prepared by Curtis Jensen, director of marketg and graphics for Steamworks, the gay bathhoe lotn Berkeley of which Mr.

RICK STOK, 'THE OTHER GAY MAN' WHO RAN AGAST MILK, DI

Horn, a gay man who was publisher of the B. "He was an out gay lawyer back the day when was hard to be out, " Horn wrote an email.

"He ran for supervisor and sort of was the 'tablishment gay' ndidate the electn when the cy nverted om at-large to district electns, but Harvey Milk beat him. Stok was a mentor to him when he arrived the cy 1966, explag to him about gay people and gay rights. Terry Bwick, a gay man who's executive director of the Goln Gate Bs Associatn, which Mr.

After years of stggle wh his gay inty, cludg sufferg through regrsive reparative therapi and an unhappy marriage, he moved to California termed to fd "his guy.

WANDA GAY REECE OBUARY

Stok always acknowledged that he was privileged to have Clayton's support and that allowed him to dite his reer to advancg LGBTQ equaly, particularly those pre-Stonewall days when the mere knowledge that someone was gay uld get them fired and ostracized om public life. Stok helped "gays and lbian people ught up bar raids and police stg operatns, " Jensen said, addg that he also assisted them wh child ctody s and other issu.

RICHARD GAY OBUARY

Stok set about beg part of the early gay rights movement. He formed a gay anizatn lled Associatn for Rponsible Cizenship (ARC) and beme an active participant the Society for Individual Rights. ARC published the Archer, an early magaze dited to the gay movement.

Stok anized prevly unthkable actns like sponsorg a booth about gayns at the California State Fair, an effort that was blocked at the last mute by fair anizers. Stok was there to talk about gay people.

Stok wh beg the first generatn of strong, fluential voic for gay rights. Stok anized a public panel discsn between gay men and alli the relig and polil muni that proved to Mr.

RICHARD J. GAY

Stok served on the board and as print of another early group, the Council on Relign and the Homosexual, the 1960s. To e the word "homosexual" s name; prev groups monly ed "homophile" or avoid direct reference to homosexualy or "gay" all together. Stok will also be remembered as one of the founrs and owners of Steamworks Baths, one of the longt ntug gay-owned bathho the world, and an dtry lear that long set the standard agast which other siar facili are judged, stated Jensen.

That venture, at 330 Rch Street, reprented the first gay ownership of a gay bathhoe the U.

Along wh a llective of other vtors, they created a bathhoe by and for gay men, and ma cleanls and ctomer service a prry. Wh the support and iendship of gay bsman David Goodste, Mr. Bwick wrote an email that the anizatn was the first gay chamber of merce associatn the U.

RICHARD JOHN GAY

Stok began an effort to get gay and lbian reprentatn on San Francis cy boards and was the first out gay person appoted to the San Francis Fay Servic Agency Board of Directors, where he served for four years. In 1972, he ran as the first openly gay ndidate for the Cy College of San Francis Board of Tste.

He narrowly lost that electn but always ntend that nng as an out gay man, havg a very public gay face participatg the normal mocratic procs for the public to see, was a victory self, Jensen stated. The uple were both subjects, along wh a dozen or so other gay men and lbians, the landmark queer film "Word is Out: Stori of Some of Our Liv. The film was the first to dive to the first-person stori of what beg gay and lbian Ameri was actually like, verg growg up, love, sex, g out, profsnal life, survivg opprsn, and the changg environment for LGBTQ people.

He then discs his journey to self-acceptance, and fdg love and fulfillment as a gay man California. The film is celebrated as a classic and an important historil rerd of the gay experience. Wh heavy hearts, we announce the ath of Wanda Gay Reece of Prceton, Wt Virgia, born Welch, Wt Virgia, who passed away on July 21, 2023 at the age of 74.