Making Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archive

Season 11: Episode 1: Craig Rodwell

Nov 3, 2022
Craig Rodwell, an influential LGBTQ rights activist, shares his experiences growing up in a restrictive boarding school, his arrest at 14 years old for having sex with a man, exploring Chicago's gay cruising scene in the 1950s, encountering police harassment, their sentencing and experiences during probation, and the consequences of his arrest including his companion's prison sentence and his own guilt and desire to make up for what happened.
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