by Evelyn Bailey A Monthly Newsletter of the Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley, December, 1973 GAY ALLIANCE MEETING SCHEDULE
From 1970 to 1990 Rochester’s Gay and Lesbian Movement Grows and Evolves
by Evelyn Bailey This month our series on gay and lesbian history continues. We will look at what occurred over these 20 years from 1970 to 1990 with excerpts from Jeff Lehigh’s Empty Closet article of March, 1990. The Gay
The Pre-Stonewall Era
by Evelyn Bailey Last month we looked at some of the roots of liberation and equality in Rochester, New York. This month we will look at pre-Stonewall era and the beginnings of the gay liberation movement with excerpts from Jeff
Karen Hagberg Writes About The Empty Closet on Huffington Post
R.J. Alcalá and I never would have imagined, in the fall of 1970 as we sat at my kitchen table kicking around possible titles for a proposed gay liberation newspaper, that it would become, by 1978, the oldest continuously published
History Corner: November 2012
by Evelyn Bailey Larry Champoux invented the proto-ImageOut in 1992 for an LGBT conference. Here is an early, early precursor: From the Fall Issue of The Empty Closet, 1971: "This issue of The Empty Closet is lovingly brought to you
History Corner: December 1970 and 1971
by Evelyn Bailey Merry Christmas!From the U of R Campus Times 1970Friday, December 4, 1970Page 3 article. “UR Gay Liberation Front to Analyze Institutions”(Listed events include: rap session (12/12), doctor on venereal disease in upstate New York (1/9/1971), psychologist on
Jay Baker, The First Editor of The Empty Closet
The Beginning of the Gay Alliance
The Gay Liberation Front Interviewed: Patti Evans and Whitey LeBlanc
Our History Is Our Strength
by Evelyn Bailey From the very beginning of time, women have been viewed as the “weaker” sex. However, when you look at the women who wrote our history with their lives, they can hardly be identified as “weak”! The women
December and January in LGBT History
by Evelyn Bailey Many significant events happened during the months of December and January pre-1980. These early struggles and successes laid the foundation for Gay Liberation. If you do not recall these or know anything about them, I invite you