The audio of the interview and the transcript are available to listen to and view by request on-site only in Special Collections. Stan Fortuna was born in Rochester, New Hampshire. He left home at 18 after a challenging childhood where he experienced abuse and homophobia. Stan moved to Portland where he became friends with a group of gay and lesbian activists. They lived and worked together in Portland in the 70s. He attended the first Maine Gay Symposium in Orono and after that worked to form Lambda Of Brunswick, the student group at USM, Gay People’s Alliance the Maine Gay Task Force, Maine Gay Task Force Newsletter and Mainely Gay, thought to be Maine’s first gay publication. He worked for Maine Medical Center for over a decade where he...