In this very special episode for LGBT+ Pride Month, Joe tells the story of Charlie Howard, an openly gay man who was murdered in Bangor Maine in 1984

Trigger warning from 06:45 -8:45

Sources:

https://www.fosters.com/news/20190701/portsmouth-to-honor-life-and-legacy-of-charlie-howard

https://www.fosters.com/news/20190707/celebrating-life-of-charlie-howard

https://worldqueerstory.org/tag/interweave/

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/07/10/Gay-community-unites-in-aftermath-of-homosexual-slaying/5914458280000/

https://web.archive.org/web/20090809135800/http://geocities.com/katsuyo_chan04/roseforcharlie.html

http://external.bangordailynews.com/projects/2014/06/charlie/#.YLbLY_lKjIV

https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20190701/portsmouth-to-honor-life-and-legacy-of-charlie-howard

Many thanks to the folks at Seacoast NH LGBT History Project, you can find them on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/Portsnh/ as well as Sarah Cornell and Bob Lister. I honestly couldn’t have done this without you.

Please consider donating to one or more of these LGBT organizations and charities:

Maine Health and Equity Alliance: https://heal.salsalabs.org/donate/index.html

Equality Maine: https://equalitymaine.org/donate

Out Maine: https://outmaine.org/support/donate/

Seacoast Outright: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/OutrightPRIDE

GLAD: https://donate.glad.org/give/123741/#!/donation/checkout?c_src=webheader

The Human Rights Campaign :https://give.hrc.org/page/62714/donate/1?ea.tracking.id=or_gnr_hrc_homepage2020

The Trevor Project :https://give.thetrevorproject.org/give/330001/#!/donation/checkout?c_src=pride2021&c_src2=headerDonate

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