The Activists

The gay liberationists who participated in this exhibit talk in video interviews about what the movement meant to them.

They are, in order of appearance:

Kenneth Pitchford (of the Gay Liberation Front and The Effeminists);

Karla Jay (of the GLF and Radicalesbians);

Perry Brass (of GLF); Rich Wandel (of the Gay Activists Alliance);

Ellen Shumsky (of GLF and RL);

Bebe Scarpi (of GAA and the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries);

Michael Lavery (of GLF and GAA); and Jerry Hoose (of GLF).

The photographs used for Ellen Shumsky's and Bebe Scarpi's interviews were taken by Richard C. Wandel. Courtesy of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center National History Archive.