There was also one gay bar in North Topeka, near the river, called The Other Side. I still remember slouching down in the dark Jayhawk Theatre in 1974 to see Boys in the Band. I would occasionally take a bus to Kansas City for a weekend of ‘coming out’ in the bars.
I moved back into my parents’ home in Topeka, Kansas and continued at Washburn University Law School. After graduating from SMU in 1973, I enrolled in law school at SMU, but after the first year could not afford to stay.
