![]() That fight, Williams said, was a “magnificent struggle” and though he’s glad times have changed, it’s important to remember “you can’t change the past.” Everybody that has any rights today, fought tooth and nail to get anything here in Utah.’” ![]() “I wanted to have a record of saying, ‘No, we fought. “I always felt that there’s going to be a time where Utah’s going to rewrite history and say how much they loved gay people, Black people, people of color and everything else,” Williams said. ![]() He started keeping a journal when he was 16, in 1968 - the year of the Tet Offensive, of student protests against the Vietnam War, and of the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. There’s the 2015 certificate, for outstanding contribution, given to him by the Utah State Historical Society - which, Williams said, was the “first acknowledgment of of a gay community from a state agency.”Īs an LGBTQ+ historian in Utah, Williams said, he has seen the state’s community develop since the 1970s, and he has documented it all.
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