The connections between generations have become a difficult subject for the community. With the idea that queer people are inherently predatory still circulating, and an entire generation of queer people lost to the AIDs epidemic, the connection of mentor and mentee is a rare one within our community. Though Erik Bruhn, unfortunately, didn't have an older queer person to look up to, he became a mentor in every way possible.
Making Queer History has a vague title because it has a rather vague purpose. We are not alone in our aim to tell the queer community’s history. What defines us is our focus not only on the past, but toward the future.