Tom Cassidy | Makg Gay History

Contents:

• TOMMY GAYFIELD
• GAYFIELD POLICE STATN PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR
• MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST
• IS TODD SANFIELD GAY?
• STACEY CAMPFIELD, TENNSEE SENATOR BEHD 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL, ON BULLYG, AIDS AND HOMOSEXUAL 'GLORIFITN'

TOMMY GAYFIELD

Tommy Gayfield, Jr. 2008Sophomore. Keep track of how much of Tommy Gayfield’s work you have seen.

Tommy Gayfield - IL Track and Field B. Tommy Gayfield - MO Track and Field B. Bee AIDS was extribly tied to gay men—the vast majory of those who were stck down by the disease the Uned Stat durg this time were gay men—tens of thoands were forced out of the closet as they sickened and Cassidy knew the l of the closet.

GAYFIELD POLICE STATN PHOTOS & HIGH-R PICTUR

As he built his reer om lol TV reporter to CNN bs news anchor and host of that work’s “Pnacle” seri, Tom kept his gay life and his profsnal life strictly separate. Cred: Courty of Wh some gay men diagnosed wh AIDS whose high-profile reers led them to disappear om public when they beme serly ill, Tom Cassidy chose the oppose urse. I really wanted to make a polil statement as a gay person, as well as an AIDS patient… I thought I uld make AIDS patients feel better.

I uld make the public unrstand that some of their TV newsmen are gay and sick… Everyone intified me as one of the good guys, and there are lns of people who have seen me on televisn.

MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST

I wanted them to know that a favore of theirs uld get this disease—and, sendarily, that he happened to be gay. I also thought that maybe I uld help show people that AIDS is not jt a gay problem. When gay people die of AIDS, the whole society is so much poorer…”To learn more about Tom Cassidy and the AIDS epimic, please have a look at the rourc, lks, and photographs that follow below.

———Tom’s appearance the WCBS-TV three-part televisn seri led to many addnal media terviews, cludg this article People n fd Tom Cassidy’s oral history Eric Marc’s book Makg Gay New York Tim published Tom’s obuary on May 29, Cassidy at rowg regatta, Prceton, New Jersey, 1971. Author Larry Gross provis a solid overview of LGBTQ people relatn to mass media (prr to 2001) his book, Up om Invisibily: Lbians, Gay Men, and the Media Ameri. NLGJA (origally knowns as the Natnal Lbian & Gay Journalists Associatn) was found 1990 by openly gay newspaper edor Roy Aarons.

”———Episo TranscriptI’m Eric Marc and this is Makg Gay Cassidy was a total alpha male.

IS TODD SANFIELD GAY?

And he loved his job, even though that meant hidg the fact he was gay. Back then, almost all gay people who worked journalism—and virtually everyone who worked ont of the mera—kept their private liv very private.

STACEY CAMPFIELD, TENNSEE SENATOR BEHD 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL, ON BULLYG, AIDS AND HOMOSEXUAL 'GLORIFITN'

He’s a wtern wboy, a macho homophobe, who was really a very good iend of me.

And I was aaid of what his reactn would Bee of the AIDS or bee of beg gay? Tom: And also about beg gay.

It’s kd of trigug, a I wonr if there are gay people Oh, I thk so.

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