Photo 1: Audience gathers in theater before show. Persons identified: Bill Larson (back row seated, 2nd from right); Ricky "Mother" Cross (back row, 4th from right); Francis Dufrene (across from Bill Larson); Reggie Adams (to left of Dufrene);…
Who is GLAD? Why, you are, of course! GLAD is nothing more, and nothing less!, than a group of members of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) who are called to join in God’s work of transforming the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) into…
(left to right): Herb Donaldson, Lewis Durham, Nancy May, Cecil Williams, Robert Cromey, Fred Bird, Chuck Lewis and Ted McIlvenna. From private papers of Paul Gabriel.
Glide clergy like Rev. Cecil Williams and Rev. Ted McIlvenna combined with a few homosexual leaders to organize the Council on Religion and the Homosexual in 1964. This organization legitimized the effort to build gay community life under the…