Retzloff said the difference in Detroit’s gay history includes all of Metro Detroit – inner city and suburbs. “Detroit had a different story than what you are finding in New York and San Francisco, or even the other cities that had been done,” Retzloff said. Retzloff corrected that omission with the dissertation that earned his PhD from Yale: two volumes, 680 pages, taking an exhaustive look at gay life and history in Detroit and its suburbs from 1945 to 1985. San Francisco has the Castro and Market Districts, and the San Francisco City Hall where Harvey Milk was assassinated.Ĭhicago has the Old Town Triangle District and the home of early gay rights leader Henry Gerber.īut what about Detroit? LGBT historian Tim Retzloff says there is a rich history of Detroit’s gay community that has not been properly told. LGBT history has landmarks in New York, with The Stonewall Inn, Christopher Street, and the theater district. Every movement has its landmarks and history, and that holds true for the gay rights movement.
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