"The Story of Bob tells the life of Reverend Robert W. Wood: a World War II veteran, ordained Christian minister, and early gay rights advocate who chose visibility at a time when silence was often the only path to survival. In 1960-nearly a decade before Stonewall-Wood published "Christ and the Homosexual," a radical act that openly affirmed gay people within a religious world that overwhelmingly rejected them."
"In August, we took our twenty-fourth consecutive vacation to Ogunquit, Maine. We stayed in our usual place, the Old Village Inn, room four, which required walking two flights up. It took a long time for Hugh to climb the stairs with his cane. He kept one hand on the railing. People coming down the stairs stood back to give him room."
Reverend Robert W. Wood was a World War II veteran and ordained Christian minister who became an early gay rights advocate by choosing visibility when silence was common. In 1960 he published Christ and the Homosexual, openly affirming gay people within a religious world that largely rejected them. He participated in the Mattachine Society and played a quiet but consequential role in early LGBTQ+ advocacy, paying professional, personal, and spiritual costs. His life involved navigating love, faith, fear, desire, and integrity with few models for living openly. A separate scene describes a vacation in Ogunquit, Maine, caring for Hugh as he struggles with stairs and uses a cane.
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