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Season 1: Episode 2: Wendell Sayers
FromMaking Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archive
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Length:
16 minutes
Released:
Oct 20, 2016
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Podcast episode
Description
We don’t know much about Wendell Sayers beyond what he shared in his original 1989 interview for the Making Gay History book and the little we found in our research. He was born in Western Kansas on April 29, 1904, and died on March 27, 1998. He was, as he notes in the interview, the first black attorney to be hired to work in the Colorado State Attorney General’s office. Wendell’s specialty was in real estate. In the late 1950’s he attended several meetings of the Denver chapter of the Mattachine Society, an early gay rights organization, and briefly attended the Mattachine Society’s sixth annual national convention, which was held in Denver in September 1959.
Released:
Oct 20, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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