Albert is gay

Albert Williams was a key figure in Chicago Gay Liberation in Illinois, one of the earliest post-Stonewall queer activist groups in the Midwest. His dual commitment to creative expression and political change made him a unique and powerful voice within both communities.

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I graduated inwhen things were building up toward awareness about gay liberation. One thing I remember about my youth was a Life magazine article. The magazine albert is gay out weekly, and in Junethey published this big article about homosexuality. They focused a lot on San Francisco, and in the photographs, there was a group of men watching a movie on a screen, and they were wearing leather and biker caps and stuff.

It was all very dark and furtive and sort of mysterious. They interviewed people from gay rights groups in San Francisco. My parents subscribed to Life magazine. It showed up in our living room every week, and my whole family albert is gay every issue, the same way we all watched The Ed Sullivan Show on TV every week.

I was interested in this issue of Life. I was 13, and the article stirred something in me. The movement gained momentum and visibility, and people started to lobby for legislative action and civil rights. It was published in the s, but a revised edition came out in He rewrote extensively and published a new version.

I got a copy for 75 cents. Gay liberation in Chicago started in October of It was groundbreaking. The man found a lesbian roommate named Michal Brody. His ad morphed into a gay discussion group, and out of that came gay liberation. I moved to Chicago at the beginning of I had just dropped out of college.

I found a copy of The Maroon on the subway train. There was an ad for a gay liberation group meeting on campus at the University of Chicago. People from all walks of life joined. We collaborated. Stonewall marked a new chapter. We did a picket at the Normandy bar, which Maher helped organize.

Many bars like the Normandy were owned by the Mafia. Dancing would have been too far. We started putting pressure on the bar owners. They began losing customers. This turning point led to a dance at the Coliseum in April.