Noll Gray Thompson was born April 05, 1919 in Durham, North Carolina. Thompson was raised in a devout Christian household. He joined the United States Navy in 1941 and was stationed in San Francisco, California where he met his wife. They married in 1946 and remained married for 64 years. Thompson and his family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1989. He was a poet that wrote about protests and gay love in the Las Vegas Bugle for many years. Thompson died November 13, 2010.

Samuel "Sonny" Schwartz (1933-1998) worked as a journalist and radio personality in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Born in Atlantic City, Schwartz was hired out of high school in 1951 to work for the Press of Atlantic City. By 1953, he had become a reporter and authored two weekly columns. He worked for the paper for 37 years before leaving to host a radio show called Dateline Atlantic City, which he hosted from 1990 to 1997.

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