Join us on Wednesday, 10/4 on Facebook or Instagram at 7 p.m. and learn about Mister McKinney of Mister McKinney's Historic Houston hosts Facebook Live with author JD Doyle in this free, online program.

JD Doyle, a Houston-based LGBTQ historian was awarded the Texas Digital Library’s (TDL) 2021 Trailblazer Award. The award honors the work of an individual or group that has used limited resources in innovative ways to create and maintain digital collections.   TDL’s mission of ensuring equitable access to and preservation of digital content of value [for research and teaching], cultural heritage, and institutional memory.

In his new book, Doyle shares a deeply personal story of his cross-country odyssey at age 34 through the burgeoning gay American subculture developing in cities large and small. Entitled 1981—My Gay American Road Trip: A Slice of Pre-AIDS Culture, the book is based on a journal that Doyle kept of his adventures as he traveled from the East Coast to the West Coast and back again.