Richard Feidler
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And there were people outside.
So it was the community.
You felt I was being protected to some regard.
So I felt like I could make light of it.
And then we were released and then I was on my own at four o'clock in the morning.
And it was horrible.
It was like I was all on my own.
And lots of people, our names were in the paper.
They knew I was part of it when I went to work.
And that's when it got really nasty.
I had pornographic material put in my...
office drawers.
I had lemons placed everywhere.
People walked on the other side of the corridors.
No one would talk to me.
I went into a really bad depression.
We had lots of meetings and organisation and more demonstrations.
I just ran to those because if it wasn't for those, I don't know what, I probably would have gone back into the closet.
I just was so depressed at the way that, oh, I'm still not normal.
I'm hated for what I am.