“They just helped me all around,” he recalls. He saw that world as a “refuge” and a place where gays were “allowed to be themselves” more than in any other place.īut The Gay Essay really began while he explored the Los Angeles Gay Community Services Center where he met Morris Kight and Don Kilhefner, two men who ran the programs there and founded the Gay Liberation Front in Los Angeles in 1969 where they mobilized the community against the LAPD’s harassment of homosexuals.
While growing up in Hollywood, Freidkin’s parents worked in the film industry and had close friends that led full openly gay lives.
