I need big gay ideas! :D

[triedunture]

So guys, remember how I'm volunteering with SAGE to help collect histories of gay elders?

Well, we had a meeting today. And decisions needed to be made. And a leader had to emerge. And, erm, I had a laptop.

SO I TOTALLY RAILROADED THE PROJECT. Imma make a gay book, yo! :D

So here's the thing. We're going to interview the elders ourselves, and we'd like to do it in a historical context (by we I mean me). So instead of asking "when did you come out" blah blah blah, we ask everyone about very specific historical moments and try to get a sense of what their whole lives were like. The gay stuff, the other stuff, all the stuff!

Questions I've come up with so far:

Where were you when Stonewall happened?
Do you remember the first time you used a computer?
What were you doing when MLK was assassinated?
Why and when did you move to New York City?

You get the picture. I guess what I'm curious to know is:

Do y'all have any burning questions you'd like to ask a gay person who's been around for a long time? If you could sit down with an 85-year-old lesbian or gay man, what would you want to talk about?

It's okay if you're straight, gay, whatever. I'm just trying to get some ideas for a jumping off point. And the internet's better than one!

Comments

[triedunture.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh, I like the slang one. That's important. A ton of these are really good ideas, thanks!