For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. President and CEO at AIDS Service of Dallas, lawyer, and longtime activist in the Dallas LGBT community. Childhood in Michigan; move to Chicago, Illinois, and then to the Dallas, Texas area for college; work for Dallas County Juvenile Department; law school in San Antonio, Texas; coming out; involvement in the Dallas Gay Alliance (DGA); AIDS epidemic; work at AIDS Service of Dallas; Texas anti-gay legislation and police raids; Village Station arrests and trials; activism in Dallas.