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LISTEN ONLINE 1 of 2 2 of 2 Meryl Kerley shares her experience as part of the Washington, DC lesbian scene in the 1960s and beyond. Her family moved to the greater DC area in 1959, and when she graduated high school in 1966 she immediately began…

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Michele Zavos is a highly successful LGBTQ+ and family law attorney based in D.C., who was originally from Pittsburgh. She worked at several different political groups before developing her law practice for working with individuals and talks about…

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Gay Chinese-Latino immigrant faces racial tension and a struggle with personal acceptance coming out in the gay community in the early 1980's.

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Otto Ulrich recounts working for the Library of Congress as an openly gay man and the discrimination he faced due to his sexuality. He also discusses his involvement with the Mattachine Society, an early gay rights organization in the United States.