* John
Recorded by:
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Interview Date(s):Wednesday, August 3, 2016, Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Location:phone interview
Transcript(s): transcript for interview 1, transcript for interview 2
John (b.1938) grew up in North Newark, in an Irish Catholic family. As a teenager, he participated in Newark's thriving gay social world, and this interview recounts bars, movie theaters, cruising spaces, and other important sites of gay life in the 1950s and 60s, before John left Newark in the late Sixties.