The Paradox of Orlando: LGBT Americans Have Never Had More and Never Had More to Lose

San Francisco Magazine Joe Eskenazi Twitter/Fusion There is a price to pay for progress: ‘Sometimes it’s a fatal price.’   John Gaul came to San Francisco in the late 1940s for the same reason so many people continue to come here to this day: To be who he is. Gaul, now 90, was a gay man fresh off a stint in the U.S. Army occupying postwar Japan. Decades before Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, nobody needed to ask Gaul not to tell. In San Francisco, though, it was different. The city, Gaul says,...