Executive director of Resource Center Dallas. Childhood in Ohio and Bartlesville, Oklahoma; education at Northwestern University; decision to move to Dallas; career as a photojournalist and studio photographer; “coming-out” narrative; involvement with groups such as Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and Dallas Gay Alliance/Dallas Gay and Lesbian Alliance; decision to enter SMU Law School; relationship with partner and adopted son, and with family members.

Executive Director of Resource Center Dallas and longtime activist in the Dallas LGBT community. Childhood in Bartlesville, Oklahoma; college years at Northwestern University; awareness of sexual orientation; coming out to family, friends, and co-workers; supportive reactions of family; decision to move to Dallas, Texas for job; involvement in Dallas LGBT community; thoughts on Texas Penal Code 21.06 (the Sodomy Law); impressions of Don Baker; name change of Dallas Gay Alliance to Dallas Gay and Lesbian Alliance; impressions of Judge Jerry Buchmeyer and his decision to overturn penal code 21.06; struggle for gay men to receive AIDS treatment at Parkland Memorial Hospital; DGA’s activism in AIDS treatment and care; DGA’s activism in struggle for equal treatment and human rights; changes in Dallas’s LGBT community; family life; Resource Center Dallas’s history and services; attending law school; future plans for Resource Center Dallas; thoughts on the younger generation in the LGBT community.