1/ This Sunday I'd like to talk about an old friend, Jerry Hoose. We meet shortly after the Stonewall Riots when he came into our (Craig Rodwell & myself) gay/lesbian bookstore, the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop, the first such LG outlet in the world, founded by Craig in 1967.
2/ Jerry had be at riots every night from Friday night through the last night on Wednesday. Jerry was a street kid back then and the riots opened up something new in his life. When the riots ended he knew that he needed to do more because, as he said, "It was time." He was...
3/ ... right, it was time and he stepped right into creating the next era of the gay rights movement.

Jerry was truly everywhere looking to build on the energy of the riots. He found the bookshop in his search and used to spend hours there learning about the the pre-Stonewall...
4/ ... movement while educating me about the street scene. He had seen groups of us leafletting during the daytime before each night's riot and wanted to become a part of that new energy. What a part of the new gay liberation movement he became. He was a founder of the Gay...
5/ ... Liberation Front and a part of the creation of that first Pride march a year later as a mainstay of the Christopher Street Liberation Day Umbrella Committee. While he's told the story many times in many venues, these three segments of his unedited interview in the...
6/ ... Peabody Award winning documentary Stonewall Uprising (1 hr 15 mins) are vivid.

Jerry passed away in 2015. I miss those conversations we use to have. RIP Jerry.
http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_B5224AB1A5804FC6AB4C441362D1EF7C
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