A History of the Struggle to Pass NYC's 1986 Gay Rights Bill

Stephen Petrus , director of Public History Programs at LaGuardia and Wagner Archives at LaGuardia Community College and curator of “ The Battle for Intro. 2: The New York City Gay Rights Bill, 1971 – 1986 ", talks about the work he and his students did in putting together a digital exhibit on the New York City Gay Rights Bill, which passed after a long fight between advocates and opponents, and Allen Roskoff , civil rights activist, president of the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, and the co-author of the nation’s first gay rights bill, recalls his involvement in the bill and the activism that led to its passage.