Dear Friends,
Alan Virta’s slide show, “The Gay Life in Idaho,” is coming back to Boise — this coming Tuesday, October 5th at 5:30 p.m. in the BSU Student Union Room Simplot D. The slide show is for the BSU BGLAD group and anyone else interested in Idaho’s gay history going back to the 1890s! The slide show spends about five minutes talking about the Morals Drive, including the “Boys of Boise” book. It also shares a lot of other stories from Idaho LGBT history that you probably haven’t heard before.
I first met Alan Virta, the historian for “THE FALL OF ‘55,” when I attended a presentation of “The Gay Life in Idaho” back in 2000. After that, we collaborated on the research for the Boise Morals Drive. He had already done some background research for the slide show, and it was possible to get a running start on the broader research I needed to do for the film.
Alan says the best place to park for those without BSU parking stickers is the parking garage at Lincoln and University. Hope you can make it!
Talk soon,
Seth