On Dec. 8 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments for why video of 2010's historic Proposition 8 trial should be made public. A U.S. District Court ruled in September that "no compelling reasons exist" not to allow public access to the recordings. If common sense prevails, they will end up on the Internet before too long. There they will join a growing catalogue of prominent moments in gay history captured on video. Here, I have chosen 10 to share with you. If these videos fail to move and inspire you, please ask someone you trust to check your pulse. You may be dead.
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Just seems to be taking FOREVER...
Interesting "montage".. most that I have never seen before...
25 years later also got a story in the Sporting News about a Chicago Cubs pitcher who made anti-gay remarks, and outed myself to Cubs fans where I was tabbed by Hall of Fame announcer Harry Caray as the team's #1 fan. There are many other moments like my photo exhibit at Chicago's Roosevelt University's Gage Galley who's Mission Statement is Social Justice, becoming the first gay exhibit. I could go on and on... So when you make list... it's your list, and too often even people who were part of those on your list never get the name recognition they deserve.
Harvey Milk's nephew has made a great living, and able to speak throughout the world, yet his organization constantly want images for nothing or without attribution. I'm lucky to have been part of the 1970s in San Francisco and counted Harvey Milk and Mayor Moscone as friends. Someday, I hope to find a repository for my collection...
I am one of many pioneers who's contributions seem to be overlooked. So for every 10 Gay History Moments you list there are hundreds more not known. When the Homel Gay Wing of the S.F. Main Library was being built... they didn't think any of my images belonged there, and the same goes for The S.F. Gay History Museum... yet I know how too few have too much control as to what is and what's not found in our history books.
Visit www.thecastro.net/street/memoriespages/pritikin/scene05.html Recently there was a settlement with 3 softball players players that was kicked out of the 2008 Gay World Series because they were not gay. That first happened in 1978 when a team I pitched for and was their player rep. won the right to represent S.F. in the '78 Gay World Series. Some of my teammates were Vietnam Vets,City Firemen,teachers and a doctor. I contacted the Associated Press and it wound up on the CBS Evening News with Walter Chronkite and newspapers throughOUT the country. In May of 1977 I created the Anita Bryant's Husband is a homo Sapien ! T-shirt and it made the United Press International Wire Services and I outed myself at a time it was not fashionable to be Openly Gay, even in San Francisco! A month later I was able to get Jane Fonda to wear one and that made the A.P. wire services. Continued on next post
Meanwhile, seems to me that the Ted Olson piece is enough to justify the whole posting. Anybody who supports equal rights for the gay community -- as my wife and I certainly do -- should watch this post several times and memorize Olson's arguments. A sound and smart rebuttal on every point Wallace (and most others like him) tries to raise. And all without leaving the high road.
Loved the spot at 6:29, by the way, when Olson halts Wallace from speaking over him (a classic tactic among today's less than worthy journalists) with a firm but polite, "I'm sorry if I was interrupting you..." I'm going to try that line sometime.