Introduction

Eric Marcus: This week, I want you to meet Wendell Sayers. You won't read about Wendell in any of the history books. Try an online search, and all you're going to find is the day he was born and the day he died. He worried that word might get back to his family that he was gay,. So I called him Paul Phillips, and I didn't say where he lived. The world Wendell grew up in, was stacked against him from the day he Was born in 1904. In small town western Kansas, but he found a way out and against all odds he built a life.