Henry Gerber : is the founder of the Society for Human Rights, the first known homosexual organization in the United States / Jeremy Sorese.

"This broadsheet, developed as part biographical essay and part personal narrative, aims to weave together the life of Henry Gerber, the founder of the first gay rights organization in the United States, with that of the artist. Sorese attempts to fill in the gaps of Gerber's history, including the time he lived on Governors Island while working for the Army. In honoring the life of someone he cannot fully grasp, Sorese also dissects his own: his personal biases as a gay man, the fear of losing one's livelihood due to unforeseen circumstances, the struggle to comprehend how short and fraught lives are. Printed as a broadsheet not dissimilar from Gerber's own short-lived newsletter Friendship and Freedom, of which no copies still exist, Henry Gerber is Sorese's tribute to a figure otherwise lost to history--and a hope that someone may, one day, do the same for him."--Shandaken Projects description. http://www.shandakenprojects.org/programs/archive/henry-gerber