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Randy Bauer is a 60 year old man I know through a family friend at church. we discussed some controversial topics during todays age and the difference in his high school experience versus high school now.

Jim McCarthy, current CEO of Miami Valley Fair Housing, is a gay man who has a long history of LGBTQ activism in Dayton. He has helped shape the community and the future for LGBTQ people.

From humble beginnings and prior careers, Josh Stucky and Brent Johnson have become one of Dayton Ohio's "power" couples. They have built a business and become a force for community development, change and charity.

Brent Johnson and Josh Stucky have become a powerful force for good in the Dayton Ohio area and beyond. They started their social justice drag troupe in their apartment attic and over the last several years have raised more than...

Janice James has been an out lesbian for a long time in Dayton, Ohio. She shares some her many experiences, including her opinions about the general lesbian community and her hopes for the future.

Janice James started coming out at age 13 in 1960s in Dayton, Ohio. As an adult, she served on board of the Dayton Gay & Lesbian Center for a couple of years and also started a social dinner club for...

Janice James started coming out as a lesbian at age 13 with her first love for a neighbor girl in the 1960s. Since then, she's survived stigma, mental health struggles, intimate partner abuse, a name change and ultimately a life...

Former Ohio Dept. of Health Epidemiologist Lois Hall and Dayton-are Physician Dr. Robert Brandt Jr. share their thoughts about current HIV treatment and their hopes for the future with regard to HIV.

Dayton-area physician Dr. Robert Brandt Jr. and former Ohio Dept. of Health Epidemiologist Lois Hall share their journeys as two principal people in the fight against AIDS in the 1980s and early 1990s in Ohio.

Ken Smith, a young gay African-American man from Dayton, Ohio, started coming out in the 1990s. His openly lesbian grandmother Grace (Thornton) Vaughn, gave him some important advice from 20 years earlier: "You do You!" Grace sued to marry her...

Grace (Thornton) Vaughn and her girlfriend Phyllis Marshall were among the first -- if not THE first -- same-sex couple to file suit after being denied a marriage license in Dayton, Ohio, in 1974. Ultimately, they were granted the right...

Rev. Dr. Mike Castle shares his journey as an out gay minister living with HIV. Shunned by the Southern Baptists, living with HIV, surviving cancer and a divorce, he has emerged stronger, liberated and determined while leading a church that...

Richard "Dickie" Wilson shares experiences from his life as a gay labor rights and community activist over the last 50 years in Dayton, Ohio for Stonewall OutLoud and LGBTQ Greater Dayton Herstory & History Project

The AIDS crisis affected communities across the country, including the Midwest in places like Dayton, Ohio. The AIDS crisis was a pivotal event in the LGBTQ community, our country and the entire world. Robert Harrison was an AIDS & HIV...

Stonewall OutLoud Interview with Phebe Karen Beiser curator of Ohio Lesbian Archives discussing her story and the archives. #StonewallOutLoud and Greater Dayton LGBTQ+ Herstory/History Project along with Rainbow Elder Care of Greater Dayton

Same sex marriage and some social injustice

Michael McConnell (75) and husband Jack Baker (75) talk with friend Lisa Vecoli (55) about having the first same-sex marriage legally recognized by a U.S. civil government in 1971, why they chose to get married, and what the response to...

Spouses Jill Lippard (34) and Katie Hendrickson (34) discuss their relationship and how they came to terms with their sexuality from a Christian upbringing. They also reflect on their lives since coming out.

Vanessa Brito, 26 and Herb Sosa, 45 talk about their work as LGBTQ advocates, about what motivates them and their role models.