Gay Pride Month: A Sad Closing to Pride Month, the Passing of Chuck Renslow
Chuck Renslow, businessman and GLBT rights pioneer died 29 June 2017 at age 87
Gay Pride Month: Why The Fight Goes On
Ah, the year 2017. It’s a far cry from 1969, but in some ways, not so much. Given that society is generally more accepting of different lifestyles today, you’ll still find the old hold outs who view anything other than white Anglo-Saxon Protestant as an abomination in the eyes of […]
Gay Pride Month: Violence against the LGBT community, a History
Yesterday, June 12, marked the one year anniversary of the Orlando Pulse Club shooting where 49 people lost their lives to a zealot. Today and probably all week will be the usual remembrances marked by vigils, holding hands, a lot of tears, gnashing of teeth, pulling of hair, tearing of […]
Gay Pride Month: The Stonewall Riots and what came after
It was the era of post war, World War II having been said and done and they return to normality in the States. It was also the era of witch hunts and McCarthy, making the lives of gay men and women a living hell: denying them jobs, keeping them on […]
Gay Pride Month: Chuck Renslow
As a young gay man growing up in Chicago in the 1970’s and 1980’s, and being involved in the gay community, wandering aimlessly through Boys Town, it was hard not to know an iconic man in the neighborhood: Chuck Renslow. I was never deeply involved with him, just meeting him […]
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