Shortly after MacIver Wells began his resistance against the police in late 1965, several gay men in Seattle received an invitation to the Roosevelt Hotel downtown. These excerpts are from Chapter Seven, “Roberts Rules of Order and Gay Liberation.” In new organizations like the Dorian Society, they would begin to talk to one another in ways they had not done before - pursuing rituals of organizing to present a new public face to the city.
Although a semi-public queer life thrived in Seattle’s underground bars in Pioneer Square from the 1930s through the 1960s, it was not until the mid-1960s that a different sort of conversation began among the city’s LGBTQ citizens.
