Vernita Gray: From Woodstock to the White House
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (743 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1499388888 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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She is the author of Obama and the Gays: A Political Marriage. Keehnen was on the founding committee and executive board of The Legacy Project and is currently a contributing biographer for the LGBT history education arts program focused on pride, acceptance, and bringing proper recognition to courageous lives and their contributions in LGBT history.
Keehnen also authored The LGBT Book of Days, a fun comprehensive guide to the most important dates in LGBT history. Baim is the editor and co-author of Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Newspapers in America (2012), a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and a Top 10 selection from the American Library Association GLBT Round Table. Owen Keehnen is the author of the novels Young Digby Swank, The Sand Bar, Doorway Unto Darkness, and the upcoming The Dog Trainer. She is the author of Obama and the Gays: A Political Marriage. She is also the co-author and editor of Out and Proud in Chicago: An Overview of the City’s Gay Community (the companion website is ChicagoGayHistory); and author of Where the World Meets, a book about Gay Games VII in Chicago, Her books include a novel, The Ha
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Her fight for lesbian equality, and the rights of the entire LGBTQ community, would be her passion for the remaining decades of her life. In the 1980s, she opened her own restaurant, Sol Sands, and in the early 1990s, she began an 18-year career with the Cook County state’s attorney’s office. Her visits to the White House brought tears to her eyes. Vernita Gray lived through some of the country’s most riveting civil-rights dramas, as an African American girl from the South Side of Chicago. Vernita’s struggle with cancer would soon take a turn for the worse, and in her final years, her passion was used to fight for both at-risk LGBTQ youth a