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Making Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archive

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How I Learned About Gay People and History in High School

In high school, the only time anyone said the word gay was we read a picture of Dorian Grey. I think that my vantage point into queer history was definitely through the AIDS crisis. Through Tony Kushner, I learned about ACT UP and things sort of branched out from there. It helped that the story was set in New York that there were a lot of other queer Jewish people in it.

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