Our special guest today is; writer, news producer, and LGBTQ+ activist, Robert C. Steele. His story begins working for the Gay Liberation Movement in the 70s.

Robert C. Steele served as a reporter and producer at various radio and television stations in Colorado and Arizona. He was a broadcaster at the Italian National Broadcasting Company (RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana) in Naples, Italy; was a reporter for Armed Forces Radio and Television along the coast of Vietnam, the Asian Western Pacific and Vicenza, Italy; and was a volunteer activist in the early gay liberation movement with two weekly gay radio shows in Colorado. Later, as a federal government public affairs officer, he served as a government spokesperson and managed media relations with reporters who worked for media outlets from across the USA and around the world.

Please check out Robert's new book 'Banned from California' out now and available on Amazon and other major book retailers

In this episode we dicuss:

• Gay Liberation Movement
• Fighting for civil rights in the USA
• Jim Foshee's story
• Gay rights before the Stonewall Riots.

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