Liberating Lawrence: Gay Activism in the 1970s at the University of Kansas

The early struggle for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and 1970s has typically been told from the perspective of the coasts—in places like New York, San Francisco, and Miami. But the Midwest town of Lawrence, Kansas, home of the University of Kansas (KU) and a thriving location for activist organizations in the 1960s, had an important role to play in the national story of LGBTQ activism in the United States.

Liberating Lawrence tells the first-hand story of the Lawrence Gay Liberation Front (LGLF)...