And gay activist, who at the age of 19, uh, came to San Francisco from Kansas.

I escaped from Kansas because what the West offered was the ethereal promise, if you will, of reinvention.

You could cross a line in which your past stayed behind you.

Go for it

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this, uh, this older, other, I would say older, but other generation of gay mostly men was that they were content to go to tea with the mayor or a public official of some kind.