Don't miss this excellent article about how Larry Fine, Karen Hagberg, Patti Evans, and a few others started the Gay Liberation Front at the University of Rochester. The Gay Liberation Front eventually became the Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley.
Empty Closet 40th Anniversary Celebration Is February 27
By Evelyn Bailey The Empty Closet 40th Anniversary Celebration is scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 27, in the Tea Room, fourth floor, Auditorium Center, 875 E. Main St. This year the Empty Closet turns 40 – a milestone in anyone’s life,
Gay Liberation Front
By Evelyn Bailey Bob Osborne, Larry Fine, R.J. Alcala, Patti Evans, Karen Hagberg, Marshall Goldman. Who would you say these people are? These men and women were the Shoulders on which the University of Rochester’s Gay Liberation Front was founded.
What did the Gay Liberation Front do?
by Evelyn Bailey In previous issues we looked at WHAT the Gay Liberation Front at the University of Rochester was. We looked at WHO the driving force behind the organization was. In this issue we want to look at WHAT
Gay Liberation Front
by Evelyn Bailey Over the next three months, Shoulders To Stand On will honor the Rochester Gay Liberation Front (hereafter referred to as the RGLF), forerunner to the Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley. Who or what – you might
The Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley’s Coming Out Journey
by Evelyn Bailey Imagine a fall October day. The sun is shining, the trees glisten with color. You are standing outside of Todd Union on the University of Rochester campus in the quadrangle. You are listening to Bob Osborne and
Larry Fine’s Memories
Larry Fine was one of the founders of the Gay Liberation Front at the University of Rochester. Larry now lives in Boston. Shoulders to Stand On interviewed Larry for over two hours about the early days of the Gay Liberation
Dance Anyone?
Printed in the first edition of the Empty Closet, January 1971: Dance Anyone? by Larry Fine and R. J. Alcala On December 5, UR Gay Liberation and UR Women’s Liberation co-sponsored a Liberation Dance in the Lounge of the Frederick