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How Texas’s First Openly Gay Legislator Did the Unimaginable
Decades ago this man did my family a kindness that we will never be able to repay, at the moment of our greatest vulnerability. Now, as he struggled to get out of his chair and reached for his cane, I had no choice but to accept that Glen Maxey was finally, impossibly, an old man. He had told me many times, “I’m retired.” And now I could see it for myself: Glen Maxey was retired.The former state representative and longtime political activist lives in a modest rental in North Austin that smells of cat with his roommate, Hector Corona, who is half his age. The walls of his house are festooned haphazardly with pictures from throughout his life and career, and of the progressive idols…The post How Texas’s First Openly Gay Legislator Did the Unimaginable appeared first on Texas Monthly.