Tape #041: Denver SDA screening of 'Salt of the Earth,' joined SWP, contact with Communist Party, civil rights support, Fair Play for Cuba, closet danger in gay life, homophobic remark Farrell Dobbs, closet affair SWP comrade, cruising and bars, gay sublimination and politics early 1960's, thoughts on Bayard Rustin and James Baldwin, Committee Against Police Brutality, organizing successes and New Left anti-war movement, GI work, moves to San Francisco, Teamster job Local 856, anti-war electoral politics demonstrations late 1960's, SWP anti-war labor organizing and gay issues early 1970's.

Topics include memories of youth during World War II, sickliness, gay feelings, liberal ideas and friends, McCarthyism, 'silent generation.' University of Denver NAACP electoral work, Students for Democratic Action, United World Federalists, clash with parents, closet existence, suicidal thoughts, and his Socialist Workers Party contacts of the late 1950's. Tape #040: Wallace was raised in Worcester, Ma and Denver, CO. This interview took place in San Francisco, CA.