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1960s: Ann Arbor's Gay Bars

Back in the 1960s, as to where I spent the most time, outside of the bars our band played music in, it was

FBI Once Spied On Gay Front

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10
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May
Year
1978
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Gay Group Declined to Pay for Police Aid

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12
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July
Year
1983
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ROTC Office Sit-In Continuing At U-M

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8
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May
Year
1970
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Community Resource Directory

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November
Year
1991
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AADL Talks To Jim Toy and Jackie Simpson

November 18, 2011 marked the 40th anniversary of the University of Michigan’s Spectrum Center, making it the oldest LGBT student organization in the country. AADL spoke with Jackie Simpson, the director of the Spectrum Center, and Jim Toy, one of the two people who founded the organization in 1971. Jackie and Jim talked about the beginning of the organization, its history and ongoing development, and the challenges and joys of the center today. 

'underground' Plans Anti-drug Fight

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12
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August
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1970
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AADL Productions Podcast: Bring It Back, Take It Forward Conference

Bring It Back, Take It Forward (BIBTIF), a 3-day conference celebrating 50 years of activism in southeast Michigan, will take place March 12-14, 2010. In this podcast, we talk with two of the conference organizers, Elizabeth Gonzalez and Jim Toy. Gonzalez, a graduate student in the UM School of Social Work, and Toy, a veteran activist and founding member of the University's Lesbian-Gay Male Programs Office in 1971, reflect on the achievements and challenges of activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, as well as their hopes for the conference and the future of the progressive movement.