Victor Carlson: Alaska superior court judge & Anchorage LGBTQ+ icon

Retired Superior Court Judge Victor Carlson was born in 1935 and raised on a farm in rural Michigan. He realized at an early age three things: 1. That he wanted to be a lawyer 2. That he was gay. 3. That he wanted to live in Alaska. He first arrived in Alaska in 1957 when he was stationed at Adak with the Navy. He settled here in 1962  once he was an attorney. He did not begin living openly as a gay man until the age of 50, and he faced terrible consequences. In fact, one man went to prison for 6 years for paying to have Judge Carlson assassinated. We talk about all that and the current state of LGBTQIA2S+ rights in Alaska.