When he terpted David Niven at the 1974 Amy Awards ceremony, the Osrs streaker tablished what remas the all-time most outrageo moment the history of the Osrs. Streaker Robert Opel, a gay rights activist, had a history of nu protts, and his antics weren't as rare as you might thk -- streakg was actually a natnwi trend 1974.
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- WHAT HAPPENED TO TAYLOR STRECKER? WIKI B, AGE, GAY, GIRLIEND, DIVORCE
- GAY PRI STREAKER DISPTS PLAY AT US OPEN (VIO)
WHAT HAPPENED TO TAYLOR STRECKER? WIKI B, AGE, GAY, GIRLIEND, DIVORCE
After Robert Opel dashed naked across the stage 1974, he ran for Print and settled to the gay leather scene, the orb of Robert Mapplethorpe and Harvey Milk. * gay streakers *
Active the gay liberatn movement — he was bisexual — and art circl, Opel’s résumé clud part-time photography work for the gay newspaper the Advote and the Hollywood Star tabloid. But another cy uncil prott left him jailed, and upon his release, he upped sticks to San Francis, where, 1978, he opened Fey-Way Studs, the natn’s first openly gay art gallery.
At the time, even San Francis, gay art was displayed virtually only gay bars, and Opel’s gallery was often referred to as a sex shop by papers, when they weren’t ignorg entirely.
Robert showed the works of Tom of Fland, Étienne, Lou Rudolph, Rex, Chuck Art, Domo, Charlie Airwav, Rick B, Mark Kadota, Olaf, and the Hun, and other artists — all barely regnized as artists those days even wh the broar gay muny. He held a look-a-like ntt to mock Ana Bryant the wake of the sger’s pivot to anti-gay activism. And, his fal act of provotn, he performed a mock executn of Harvey Milk’s assass, Dan Whe — for which Opel drsed leathers as “Gay Jtice” — at UN Plaza durg the Gay Freedom Day Para on June 24, 1979, reportedly agast the warngs of the cy’s police.
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It did not take much for SF’s gay muny, already on edge after Milk’s ath, to see all manner of boogeymen the shadows. What he didn’t say was that he actually worked for the Los Angel school system, and that he was gay. “I thought was very tertg that Elizabeth Taylor uld be fltered by the sight of a nu man any ntext, ” Opel told the Los Angel gay newspaper the Advote, where he had been ntributg as a man-on-the-street photographer.