Coming Out Stories -1950’s thru the 1980’s

Teens interview gay activists about coming out stories from the 1950s thru the 1980s. There are great insights and perspectives from the people that actually lived being Gay in their own timelines.

Young people interview activists who describe the fears and activism that they experienced Coming Out during the age of AIDS

Four young activists interview elder gay, lesbian and trans-gender activists who came out in the 1970s. They explore how the catalyst of the Stonewall riots enabled a new generation to come out and begin to organize, get visible and fight for rights.

Four young activists interview gay, lesbian and trans-gender elders who explore how the perfect storm of 1960s activism — the anti-war, civil rights, and the women’s movements — inspired them to fight for their personal freedoms. These were the years that led up to the Stonewall Riots in 1969. The elders explain what the underground LGBT community looked like pre-Stonewall, and how their treatment created a resentment that boiled over and ultimately gave way to the national modern LGBT movement

Teens interview gay elders about coming out in the 1950s