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LISTEN: Making Gay History – Jeanne & Morty Manford
April 24 | 12:00 am - 11:59 pm
LISTEN: Making Gay History – Jeanne & Morty Manford
By the time Jeanne Manford’s gay son Morty was beaten up at a 1972 protest, she had already lost her older son Charles to suicide. She wasn’t going to lose another son. And not at the hands of anti-gay bigots. So the shy, petite elementary school teacher from Flushing, Queens, put pen to paper and wrote a letter to the New York Post (which was then a liberal newspaper) expressing her outrage at the incident and stating, “I have a homosexual son and I love him.”