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Max Disposti is the founder and Executive Director of the North County LGBTQ Resource Center. In this interview, Max discusses his upbringing in Rome, Italy as a queer male and his experience coming to the U.S. and his quest to open the Resource Center. Max Disposti also talks about the parallels in how the LGBTQ+ community is treated in Italy in comparison to America.

Scope and Contents Leea Pronovost is a transgender activist and has been advocating for transgender and LGBTQ+ rights since coming out after a near-death experience in 2006. Pronovost began her work in activism in Massachusetts and partnered with a variety of organizations where she worked to help the queer community in areas such as LGBTQ+ education, housing, and hospital rights. She also worked for the Transgender Law Center and the Trans Lifeline. Now residing in Vista, CA, Pronovost is a staff member at...

Scope and Contents "Sexual Freedom Comes to S.D." [New local chapter of Sexual Freedom League holds first open house meeting; Tom Palmer, Executive Director, spoke]; Schools in Turmoil" [Lincoln High School campus closure, Black and Chicanx student walkouts at other campuses, student protests, class boycotts]; "Sexual Freedom Bill" [fact sheet on Assembly Bill 743, Assemblymen Brown and Burton]; "Dr. John Ford on Lincoln Hassle" [Ford was a member of the State Board of Education, he spoke regarding the police...

Scope and Contents [reprinted pictorial from Harper's Weekly "Military Glory"]; "Hippie Rebellion" [Dr. Kingsley Widmer, teacher at San Diego State College, talks with the Door about the day's youth]; "Editorial: Poverty"; "mother's day"; "bag of beads: the abominable body" [satire about clothing and nakedness]; "Freedom of the Press at Clairemont High" [Clairmont High School attempts to start a student paper]; "Report on SDS National Council" [Students for a Democratic Society gives support to Black Panther...

Scope and Contents "Teacher Fights School Board: Educators Show Contempt For First" [Robert W. Holden's challenge of the San Diego Unified School District over First Ammendment grounds]; "Door Reporter Gets Marined" [Door reporter Herb Joseph detained on way to attend trial of Seaman Thomas Csekey, chared with passing out copies of the "Bond" an antiwar serviceman's newspaper; offense alleged to have happened at Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma, Arizona.]; "Bag of Beads" [Apollo 11; John Birchers; Encounter;...

Scope and Contents "Local Green Berets Strike Again--Free Door Victimized" [vandalism, San Diego Steet Journal and Free Door to Liberation]; "Meanies Attack Street Journal" [vandalism, San Diego Street Journal]; "San Diego Business Association Newsletter" [meeting notes and goals]; "PFP Plans Convention" [Peace and Freedom Party]; "Red Man Rising Peace Pipe or War Drums?" [Native American liberation]; "Sanity Now!" [peace-activist education center, LaPuente, California]; "Support the Underground Press";...