William Way LGBT Community Center Digital Collections

Bawer, Bruce; Morgan, Trish; Wylen, Bert; (Bluejay?); (Phil?)

Bert Wylen interviews writer and critic Bruce Bawer about his 1993 book, A Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society. Wylen and Bawer reflect on the myth of a unified gay lifestyle, the possibilities that gay culture offers individual gay people, and Bawer’s belief in the central importance of assimilation. Wylen and Bawer discuss an article written by Rosamund Kayes for The Welcome Mat; excerpt of Bert Wylen’s interview with an unnamed person about the services offered by the Montrose Center, a homeless shelter for LGBT youth in Houston, Texas; Bert Wylen interviews a teenage client of the Montrose Center, who discusses the circumstances that led him to seek out support and the challenges of living independently; Bert Wylen interviews Trish Morgan and Phil (Bapdorf?) about their role in founding the Houston Area Teenage Coalition of Homosexuals (HATCH), based out of the First Universalist Unitarian Church. Morgan and Phil reflect on the organization’s development and successes.

undated

00:39:21

digitial audio tape

local: Ms. Coll. 8; https://digital.wilcoxarchives.org/islandora/object/islandora:1622

Gaydreams audio recordings

English

Houston, TX; Philadelphia, PA

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