How two men tried to start a hate-free ‘gay town’ in the Nevada desert.

Stonewall Park was a mid-1980s dream that never quite came to fruition.

FRED SCHOONMAKER WAS THE VISIONARY; Alfred Parkinson, whom he called his husband, his most devoted disciple. The two men lived in Nevada in the mid-1980s, at the height of the AIDS crisis, when legally sanctioned homophobia…