Openly gay playwright Lanford Wilson's (1937 – 2011) The Hot l Baltimore was produced by the Circle Repertory Company 1973. It then transferred to the Off-Broadway Circle the Square where closed 1976 after 1,166 performanc. It was directed by Marshall W. Mason; the st clud Trish Hawks, Conchata Ferrell and Judd
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- AFTER S-LONG LEGAL BATTLE, GAY UPLE'S 1971 MARRIAGE OFFICIALLY REGNIZED
- MY RGSI SEAT ON THE : 'SOMEONE HAD TO BE THE FIRST GAY UPLE TO MARRY'
- #FIRSTS: 1975, AMERI’S FIRST GAY COUPLE ON TELEVISN
- ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
- 10 MILTONE MOMENTS GAY TV HISTORY
AFTER S-LONG LEGAL BATTLE, GAY UPLE'S 1971 MARRIAGE OFFICIALLY REGNIZED
* the first gay couple *
"We jt wanted to make sure that the world saw the most posive si of beg a gay uple.
AdvertisementSKIP Jimenez for The New York TimMay 16, 2015MINNEAPOLIS — Long before the fight over same-sex marriage began earnt, long before gay upl began lg up for marriage licens, Jack Baker and Michael McConnell cid to year was 1967. Homosexualy was still classified as a disorr, sodomy was illegal nearly every state, and most gay men and lbians lived fearful om the age of 14, eyeg young men his father’s barbershop, Mr.
Lynn uple, now their early 70s, spoke this month a rare terview the hoe they share here, nearly half a century after they joed their liv and earned a place the history of gay rights, helpg to make Mnota an early center of gay Baker said he was proud that the Supreme Court this year heard the very same nstutnal arguments of equal protectn and due procs that he had intified as a law stunt 2013, when the Mnota Legislature thorized same-sex marriage and a state senator announced, “Today, love ws, ” Mr.
MY RGSI SEAT ON THE : 'SOMEONE HAD TO BE THE FIRST GAY UPLE TO MARRY'
”For a time the early 1970s, the two had starrg natnal rol as spokmen for gay equaly, pecially Mr. 26, 1971, issue on “The Amerin Fay, ” they were featured as “The Homosexual Couple.
#FIRSTS: 1975, AMERI’S FIRST GAY COUPLE ON TELEVISN
”“Some homosexuals — a mory — live together stable, often long-lastg relatnships, like Baker’s and McConnell’s, ” the article Mr.
ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
Baker was elected 1971 as the openly gay stunt-body print of the Universy of Mnota, Walter Cronke reported on the nightly news. The uple appeared together on the fluential Phil Donahue and David Sskd by 1980, trated as the marriage issue failed to take off and unr attack by gay lears who lled them “crazi” for refg to make polil promis, they dropped out of public life.
McConnell that he would figure out a way to, he beme the first print of FREE, for Fight Reprsn of Erotic Exprsn, which was among the untry’s earlit llege anizatns for gay rights. The group fought to hold gay and lbian danc on mp and forced rporate recers to pledge not to discrimate McConnell joed him and was promised a posn at the Universy of Mnota rearch his first year of law school, Mr. McConnell threw his energy to creatg one of the untry’s earlit gay muny centers, and the uple scraped by on $75 a month om the G.
SOURCE: “WHY MARRIAGE MATTERS: AMERICA, EQUALITY, AND GAY PEOPLE’S RIGHT TO MARRY, ” BY EVAN WOLFSON (2004).
10 MILTONE MOMENTS GAY TV HISTORY
In 1971, gay uple Michael McConnell and Jack Baker applied for a marriage license om Blue Earth County, Mnota.
“This jt simply prov that the first same-sex marriage ever rerd the public fil of any civil ernment anywhere the world happened Mnota, ” Jack McConnell uple, who penned their story the memoir “The Weddg Heard ’Round the World: Ameri’s First Gay Marriage, ” exchanged vows durg a small ceremony at a iend’s home Mneapolis September marriage was later legalized — first Mnota 2013, and two years later across the U.