The first of two groundbreaking volumes on gay History in Wisconsin We\'ve Been Here All Along provides an illuminating and nuanced picture of Wisconsin\'s gay History from the reporting on the Oscar Wilde trials of 1895 to the landmark Stonewall Riots of 1969.
Wagner has served on the Wisconsin Arts Board, the Wisconsin Humanities Committee, the Board of Downtown Madison Inc., the Madison Plan Commission, the Madison Urban Design Commission, the Madison Landmarks Commission, Historic Madison, the Madison Trust for Historic Preservation, the Board of the Olbrich Botanical Gardens, and the Board of the Friends of UW Libraries..
In 2005 he joined the Board of Fair Wisconsin to fight the constitutional amendment against marriage equality.
In 1983 he was appointed by Governor Tony Earl to co-chair the Governor\'s Council on Lesbian and Gay Issues, the first in the nation.
This book honors their legacy and confirms that they have Been foundational to the development and evolution of the state since its earliest days About the Author: Scholar and activist Richard Wagner was the first openly gay member of the Dane County Board of Supervisors, wHere he served for fourteen years.
Richard Wagner draws on historical research and materials from his own extensive archive to uncover previously hidden stories of gay Wisconsinites.
In We\'ve Been Here All Along, R.
Throughout these decades, gay Wisconsinites developed identities, created support networks, and found ways to thrive in their communities despite various forms of suppression--from the anti-vice crusades of the Early twentieth century to the post-war labeling of homosexuality as an illness to the Lavender Scare of the 1950s.
The first of two groundbreaking volumes on gay History in Wisconsin We\'ve Been Here All Along provides an illuminating and nuanced picture of Wisconsin\'s gay History from the reporting on the Oscar Wilde trials of 1895 to the landmark Stonewall Riots of 1969
