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Title
Bill Fry Oral History
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Date Created
2022
Description
Bill Fry reflects on adoption, repression, faith, travel, and gay life across several decades. Raised in small-town Attica, Indiana, he describes a loving but emotionally limited family, early awareness of difference, military school expulsion, secrecy, shame, and college-era cruising under the threat of arrest. His story follows Indianapolis gay bars, police raids, Denver’s Metropolitan Community Church, relationship with Daryl, moves through Texas and Portland, nonprofit work, AIDS-era loss in Dallas, computer bulletin-board communities, later LGBTQ elder advocacy, and a growing commitment to understanding transgender lives and community care.
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Interviewer
David Duffield
Interviewee
Bill Fry
Location
Denver, CO