At 21, University of Michigan student Kathy Kozachenko made history by becoming the first openly gay elected official in the nation. Now, she fears for the future of LGBTQ rights.
It was through Bettina Aptheker, and the review I wrote of her recent book Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s, that I came into contact with Dale Mitchell.
Sadly, this book review is also an obituary and a memoir. In early 2023, The University of Chicago Press published a collection of Michael Denneny’s writings, On Christopher Street: Life, Sex, and Death After Stonewall.
Frank Moorhouse had a lifelong fascination with crossing borders – including the borders of gender and sexuality. It was reflected in both his life and his writing.
“History isn t something you look back at and say it was inevitable. It happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments