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37 Comments on “Coming Out in the 70's”

  8. the 1970's was the decade of the beginning for gay people to stand up and be proud.   not to hide and be passive.   granted it was not perfect, but  it was a start.

  9. So these little liberals want these people to be labeled as “brave” fine I’ll give them that it took SOME courage to come out back in the 1970s but this inverse of this is that it is NOT “brave” to come out in 2018 in America or western society. Sorry never mind real bravery is running into a burning building (putting your life on the line to save others the true definition of bravery). But honestly who cares about this you liberals have gotten everything you want… of course this leads to an Islamic takeover but hey diversity ! At least there will be gay rights for a few decades until liberals destroy western civilization by letting in the one group of people in the world dedicated to the destruction of the system that allowed gay rights to happen in the first place (islamists).

  13. I came out in the late 70;s and had a positive experience. But I knew we couldn't interact with the violent lesbians they hated the gay males.

  17. So – what you need to know: there was a movement back then for "Gay Rights". In 1977, POTUS Jimmy Carter invited gay activists to the White House to talk about anti-gay policies at the Federal level, with discussion following on how to change that. Then, going into the Election of 1980, there was not one, but TWO POTUS candidates who incorporated "Gay Rights" into their platform. Democrat Jimmy Carter and Independent John Anderson both proclaimed equality for gays. BUT…Reagan won and then AIDS hit. We've been recovering ever since.

  19. Menjos???I believe this bar was in the suburbs of Detroit….my experience was from the downtown gay bar..called the Woodward..off of the Blvd. It had a grill and a dance floor. Most of the bars were dark and sort of seedy…but what did we have to gravitate to? Detroit proper was very judgmental, but very closeted. I remember going to Canada to feel less restricted..it was sort of cool. The gay scenario was a very adventurous media…long before the AIDS trauma happened. I was glad to be born in this particular era. I admire anyone who survived the early pre-Stonewall time period. I guess..thank God for New York Nad San Fran for a haven for gays.

  20. A non glamorous look at my life
    Growing up in the 1970s
    Being gay was not easy for me at
    8 years old i fell in love with my best friend greg gautier
    His mother was a born again christian cunt and a homophobic
    Bitch she brow beat that poor kid
    He was beautiful and i loved him
    I kissed greg in the attic of my house it was my birthday i had
    Just turned 8 at the time.
    His mother separated him and me
    Greg asked me if i was homosexual i was a kid i answer
    Yes.
    At that time i kept it quiet
    And fought off the bullies at school as well
    I also had a guy crush on eddie winger who was in my special ed
    Class he was cute the only kid
    With grey hair and i liked him

  21. I was 13 when Stonewall happened, and I saw LIFE Magazines story-"GAY POWER."
    I never have & still don't like the word GAY as a label. To me and others like minded, it sounds like we are fairies running through a dew dropped meadow singing songs from Oklahoma.
    The term came from an interview with one of the Drag Queens who was asked how they all felt about this victory of sorts. The response was-"Oh Honey, it was a Gay old time had by all for our rights." and that, is how that word became the fodder for the mob mentality, which the media to this day only focuses on, and the parades, I stopped going in '98; despite the different types of people that are sexually different, there are those Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. You want to be accepted, and by the church, yet you dress up as these freaks of nuns, makeup etc., and mock the Catholic church; not a good way to get that respect, and the dry humping on the floats et al again out numbers the the more less stereotypical participants.
    I found the Seventies to be the decade for this movement more so than any other decade because, the variety of options to be YOU were there.
    I'm 63 now, and see it as progressive, but, being proud to be a person who has sex with the same gender is not that important. We label each other so much these days, and in this time, things were more fun, less secretive; in the big cities you were okay, but anywhere else, not so much.
    To each there own, but this scene is evolving into less of what we were about, and more of what we are not about. I had a great time, but glad it was then and certainly not now.

  22. I would love to turn the hot skinny black haired girl reporter straight, she just needs to have a real man and she'd be normal.

  23. When a person "Comes Out" and informs the world they are queer it is not something to be proud of They are also thumbing their noses at God and claiming to be abomination to God and man

  35. This is so beautiful! Kudos to the youth for respecting gay/lesbian/transgender activists from the 60s/70s who went through the most unbelievable shyt because of how bigoted and homophobic society was.

    I've always wanted to see a documentary like this and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I really like when the younger generation reaches back to the older generation because there is so much valuable information that NEEDS to be heard by today's youth and society in general! Thank you so much! ❤

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