My hometown writes about gay issues!  I grew up in Wilkes-Barre,
Pennsylvania, and stayed there for 26 years. Oasis started when
I still lived there. When I was coming out, there were gay bars
and the very beginnings of social networking. PFLAG had just
started around that time. And there was a group called REACH
(Recreationally and Educationally Active Community Heroes, I
believe), for which I had no hand in naming, started having
events and support groups, as well.  I remember when another
"activist" and myself at that time started a coming out support
group under the REACH banner. Week after week, we would meet and
about a dozen or so people would show up, only no one wanted to
come out. It ended up being more of a "how to stay closeted and
why that isn't such a bad thing" group, to the frustration of
the more activist people. I stayed on primarily to talk to young
people who showed up at the meeting, in what must have looked
like pure pedophilic intention. I wanted them to know this
meeting was a warning