Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation

With Jim Downs, a Mellon New Directions Fellow at Harvard University and an associate professor of history at Connecticut College.

The history of the gay liberation has often been narrated as a story of political progress and sexual freedom, but this illustrated lecture uncovers how the 1970s engendered a literary, cultural and religious awakening for LGBT people. The talk explores the creation of a LGBT church in New Orleans that was the victim of an arson attack in 1973, making it the largest massacre of gay people in U.S. History.