Our Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice is proud to partner with the Historical Society of Princeton, Princeton Councilperson Eve Niedergang, & filmmaker & founding member of Gay People Princeton Frank Mahood, to premiere a moving documentary honoring & celebrating the inspirational Gay People Princeton, our first community-wide first gay rights organization.
Gay People Princeton was a town-based organization founded in 1974 and inspired by the University-based Gay Alliance of Princeton, which was founded by courageous undergraduates two years earlier and was the first gay rights organization in Princeton. The local townspeople who founded GPP, some of whom had attended GAP meetings and events, gathered together members of the greater Princeton community to come out strongly and proudly to declare their identity, continuing to forge the way for all of us!
We at BRCSJ HQ along with HSoP are thrilled to have the honor of showing this film to further spotlight our multifaceted archive devoted to their history so it is never forgotten again.
On Friday 13 December please join us in showing respect to these fabulous trailblazers, many of whom will travel far & wide to receive much-deserved & long overdue accolades for their part in the movement!
We share this important history to inspire the future,
both equally necessary to inform & implement the now of our
Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice!