Mick Morse’s hometown of Fennville, near Saugatuck, and Janie Brandt’s hometown of Union City:
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A Michigan Radio story talking about the gay-friendly community of Saugatuck, Mich.:
How the largest gay resort in the Midwest is in Michigan’s “Bible belt” — Michigan Radio, Jan. 11, 2016
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Michigan law equated homosexuality with drug users, vagrants and prostitutes:
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Michigan Penal Code still describes sodomy as a crime against nature punishable by life in prison — Michigan Compiled Laws
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Excerpt of the 2003 Supreme Court case that invalidated state laws criminalizing homosexuality:
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Out of DSM: Depathologizing Homosexuality — Behavioral Sciences, (U.S. National Library of Medicine/ National Institutes of Health) Dec. 4, 2015
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The Morse family moved to Leblon in 1975 so Mick can take a teaching job at the Escola Americana (American School):
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Ronald Reagan’s Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Services Dr. Robert Windom discusses AZT, or azidothymidine, at a 1986 news conference:
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The Food and Drug Administration would later approve AZT in only four months’ time:
AIDS TEST DRUG PROLONGS LIVES IN SOME CASES — The New York Times, Sept. 20, 1986