Early Gay Rights Activist. He was present at the Stonewall Inn when the police arrived to harass the patrons, which precipitated the Stonewall Riots.
Morty Manford was one of many thousands of young people to join the fight for gay liberation in the early 1970s. But before Morty could take on the battle against discrimination and for equality in the streets of New York City, he had an internal fight to deal with first—one that almost cost him his life.
Teenaged Morty Manford came of age in the 1960s, at a time when psychiatrists often did more harm than good with young people struggling to come to terms with their sexuality in a world that had nothing nice to say about homosexuals. But once Morty settled his internal civil war, he jumped with both feet into a social justice movement that would change how he saw himself and how the world thought of and treated LGBTQ people.
From 1970 until he returned to college at Columbia University in the mid-1970s, Morty's primary involvement was with the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA). He also co-founded, with his mother, Jeanne Manford, an organization for parents of gay people that today is known as PFLAG. You can hear Morty and Jeanne tell that story in their Making Gay History Season One episode, which I recommend listening to before listening to this episode.
Morty Manford died from complications of AIDS on May 14, 1992. He was 41 years old. To learn more about Morty and his contributions to the LGBTQ civil rights movement, have a look at the resources, links, photos, and episode transcript that follow below.
source: https://makinggayhistory.com/podcast/morty-manford/
Morty Manford was one of many thousands of young people to join the fight for gay liberation in the early 1970s. But before Morty could take on the battle against discrimination and for equality in the streets of New York City, he had an internal fight to deal with first—one that almost cost him his life.
Teenaged Morty Manford came of age in the 1960s, at a time when psychiatrists often did more harm than good with young people struggling to come to terms with their sexuality in a world that had nothing nice to say about homosexuals. But once Morty settled his internal civil war, he jumped with both feet into a social justice movement that would change how he saw himself and how the world thought of and treated LGBTQ people.
From 1970 until he returned to college at Columbia University in the mid-1970s, Morty's primary involvement was with the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA). He also co-founded, with his mother, Jeanne Manford, an organization for parents of gay people that today is known as PFLAG. You can hear Morty and Jeanne tell that story in their Making Gay History Season One episode, which I recommend listening to before listening to this episode.
Morty Manford died from complications of AIDS on May 14, 1992. He was 41 years old. To learn more about Morty and his contributions to the LGBTQ civil rights movement, have a look at the resources, links, photos, and episode transcript that follow below.
source: https://makinggayhistory.com/podcast/morty-manford/
Early Gay Rights Activist. He was present at the Stonewall Inn when the police arrived to harass the patrons, which precipitated the Stonewall Riots.
Morty Manford was one of many thousands of young people to join the fight for gay liberation in the early 1970s. But before Morty could take on the battle against discrimination and for equality in the streets of New York City, he had an internal fight to deal with first—one that almost cost him his life.
Teenaged Morty Manford came of age in the 1960s, at a time when psychiatrists often did more harm than good with young people struggling to come to terms with their sexuality in a world that had nothing nice to say about homosexuals. But once Morty settled his internal civil war, he jumped with both feet into a social justice movement that would change how he saw himself and how the world thought of and treated LGBTQ people.
From 1970 until he returned to college at Columbia University in the mid-1970s, Morty's primary involvement was with the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA). He also co-founded, with his mother, Jeanne Manford, an organization for parents of gay people that today is known as PFLAG. You can hear Morty and Jeanne tell that story in their Making Gay History Season One episode, which I recommend listening to before listening to this episode.
Morty Manford died from complications of AIDS on May 14, 1992. He was 41 years old. To learn more about Morty and his contributions to the LGBTQ civil rights movement, have a look at the resources, links, photos, and episode transcript that follow below.
source: https://makinggayhistory.com/podcast/morty-manford/
Morty Manford was one of many thousands of young people to join the fight for gay liberation in the early 1970s. But before Morty could take on the battle against discrimination and for equality in the streets of New York City, he had an internal fight to deal with first—one that almost cost him his life.
Teenaged Morty Manford came of age in the 1960s, at a time when psychiatrists often did more harm than good with young people struggling to come to terms with their sexuality in a world that had nothing nice to say about homosexuals. But once Morty settled his internal civil war, he jumped with both feet into a social justice movement that would change how he saw himself and how the world thought of and treated LGBTQ people.
From 1970 until he returned to college at Columbia University in the mid-1970s, Morty's primary involvement was with the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA). He also co-founded, with his mother, Jeanne Manford, an organization for parents of gay people that today is known as PFLAG. You can hear Morty and Jeanne tell that story in their Making Gay History Season One episode, which I recommend listening to before listening to this episode.
Morty Manford died from complications of AIDS on May 14, 1992. He was 41 years old. To learn more about Morty and his contributions to the LGBTQ civil rights movement, have a look at the resources, links, photos, and episode transcript that follow below.
source: https://makinggayhistory.com/podcast/morty-manford/
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