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Contents:
- ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
- 10 MILTONE MOMENTS GAY TV HISTORY
- STAR TREK INTRODUC ITS FIRST GAY COUPLE TO THE UNIVERSE
- SUX FALLS’ FIRST GAY PROM UPLE WANTED NORMALCY. INSTEAD, THEY LEFT A LEGACY.
ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
"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.
10 MILTONE MOMENTS GAY TV HISTORY
”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. ”“Some homosexuals — a mory — live together stable, often long-lastg relatnships, like Baker’s and McConnell’s, ” the article Mr.
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.
STAR TREK INTRODUC ITS FIRST GAY COUPLE TO THE UNIVERSE
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SUX FALLS’ FIRST GAY PROM UPLE WANTED NORMALCY. INSTEAD, THEY LEFT A LEGACY.
Power and David Philpott had to make their own ke topper by glug groomsmen figur togetherFrom “partner” to “hband”: meet one of the first married gay upl N. Philpott and Power may have been the first gay uple the provce to be legally married, but the trail they blazed was soon followed by many, wh the St. I remember how excg was whenever a gay TV character A) existed, and B.
Blanche's gay brother Clayton was back town and gettg married to a hot, mtached p named Doug. Blanche, who had prevly alt wh Clayton's g out a few seasons prr, still had trouble wrappg her head around the whole gay thg. I waed ont of my TV for other same-sex upl to validate the feelgs I had but uld not volize, to show me that was possible to fd love and be happy as a gay man.