On October 11, 1994 AIDS activist John Kappers died in his own bed in Little Five Points surrounded by his partner and a few close friends.
Although he had slipped into a coma, I whispered in his ear, “John, do you know what today is? It’s National Coming Out Day!” Of course he knew what day it was.
John didn’t just know LGBTQ history, he lived it. And he is one of hundreds of Atlantans in the 1980’s and 90’s who dedicated their lives, whether short or long, to the belief that all people were equal and deserved to be treated as such by the government, their families and all of society.
It was not just an idealistic stance, it was a radical and often dangerous one. John did it anyway. Six years before John’s death, in 1988, National Coming
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