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Isaiah Thomas

Katherine Nanny Naylor

Mary Dyer

Lauren Prescott

Rebecca Crumpler

Brooke Barbier

Margaret Sanger

Cotton Mather

John Hancock

Miss Mac

Phineas Gage

Ryan Walsh

John Adams

Amelia Earhart

Joseph Warren

OwlTail

Prescott Townsend  was a classic Boston Brahmin.  He was born into Boston’s elite in 1894, graduated from Harvard, and served in World War I.  All signs pointed to a very conventional path through life, but Townsend’s trajectory would take him far from the arc followed by his contemporaries from the Cabot, Lowell, or Adams families.  Instead, Prescott Townsend would be active in radical theater, experimental architecture, and, surprisingly late in his life, he would help found the American gay liberation movement and lead the first Pride parade in 1970.Show notes: http://HUBhistory.com/109/

<p>Prescott Townsend  was a classic Boston Brahmin.  He was born into Boston’s elite in 1894, graduated from Harvard, and served in World War I.  All signs pointed to a very conventional path through life, but Townsend’s trajectory would take him far from the arc followed by his contemporaries from the Cabot, Lowell, or Adams families.  Instead, Prescott Townsend would be active in radical theater, experimental architecture, and, surprisingly late in his life, he would help found the American gay liberation movement and lead the first Pride parade in 1970.</p><p>Show notes: <a href="http://HUBhistory.com/109/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://HUBhistory.com/109/</a></p>

Bohemian Boston’s Gay Grampa (episode 109)