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Stonewall, AIDS and Gay Liberation: One historian shares how these cultural moments shaped Utah’s LGBTQ community

To keep the past from being sanitized, the historian said, “I wanted to have a record of saying, ‘No, we fought.’”

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Ben Williams, a Utah LGBTQ historian who has seen the state's queer community develop from the 70s onward, has kept track of every meeting, moment and person crucial to that development in his journals.