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TOM BROKAW'S HISTORY OF THE SIXTI OVERLOOKS GAY {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}NEWSBY LYLE MASAKINOVEMBER 29, 2007/4:56 PMBY LYLE MASAKINOVEMBER 29, 2007 / 4:56 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"TOM BROKAW'S HISTORY OF THE SIXTI OVERLOOKS GAY TON","DATEPUBLISHED":"2007-11-29T21:56:37.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2007-11-29T21:56:37.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"LYLE MASAKI","KEYWORDS":"THE BACKLOT","ARTICLESECTN":"NEWS"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TOM BROKAW'S LATT BOOK, BOOM! VOIC OF THE SIXTI, CLAIMS TO OFFER "AN EPIC PORTRA OF ANOTHER FG ERA AMERIN HISTORY" THAT EXAM "HOW DIVIDUAL LIV AND THE NATNAL MDSET WERE AFFECTED BY A NTROVERSIAL ERA AND SHOWG HOW THE AFTERSHOCKS OF THE SIXTI NTUE TO ROUND OUR LIV TODAY."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT GAY ACTIVISTS QUICKLY NOTED THAT GAY HISTORY WAS SPARSE THE BOOK'S ACUNT OF THE 60'S. EVENTS LIKE THE STONEWALL RTS AND THE WORK OF GAY CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS LIKE THE COUNCIL ON RELIGN AND THE HOMOSEXUAL AND THE MATTACHE SOCIETY ARE ABSENT OM THE BOOK, WHICH LOOSELY F THE SIXTI AS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THOSE OMISSNS PROMPTED GAY ACTIVIST FRANK KAMENY (WHO, AS A -FOUNR OF THE MATTACHE SOCIETY, WAS A PART OF MANY OF THE EVENTS THAT BROKAW SKIPS) TO WRE AN OPEN LETTER TO BROKAW ABOUT THE PORTN OF THE ERA THAT BROKAW MISS. KAMENY WR:{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE SIXTI WERE A PERD OF UNPRECENTED RAPID SOCIAL AND CULTURAL UPHEAVAL AND CHANGE. WE GAYS WERE VERY MUCH A PART OF ALL THAT. A REAR OF YOUR BOOK WOULD NEVER HAVE THE SLIGHTT NOTN OF ANY OF THAT. IN YOUR BOOK, NO BOOM; ONLY YOUR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AT THE START OF THE SIXTI GAYS WERE PLETELY VISIBLE. BY THE END, AND PECIALLY AFTER STONEWALL, WE WERE SEEN EVERYWHERE: ENTERTAMENT, TN, RELIGN, POLICS, BS, ELSEWHERE AND EVERYWHERE. IN BOOM OUR VISIBILY REMAS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE ONLY ALLNS TO , YOUR ENTIRE BOOK ARE THE MOST SHALLOW, SUPERFICIAL, BRIEF REFERENC NNECTN WH SUNDRY HETEROSEXUALS. WHERE ARE THE GAY SPOKPEOPLE? WE ARE CERTALY THERE TO SPEAK FOR OURSELV. BUT YOUR BOOK, ONLY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BROKAW HAS YET TO OFFICIALLY RPOND TO KAMENY, BUT RADAR MAGAZE NOT THAT THE FORMER NBC NEWS ANCHOR DISCSED HIS EXCLN OF GAYS ON CNN'S RELIABLE SOURC, WHERE BROKAW CLAIMED THAT GAY EQUALY DIDN'T BEE A MOVEMENT UNTIL THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THAT'S CERTALY AN ODD EXCE, SCE THE SIXTI CLU SEVERAL TON GAY HISTORY THAT NTUE TO AFFECT TO THIS DAY. HOWEVER, IF BROKAW'S HISTORY OF THE SIXTI CLUS EVENTS OM AS FAR AS 1974, HIS CLAIM THAT LGBT ADVANC ME AFTER THE PERD HE CHRONICLED SEEMS EVEN MORE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AFTER ALL, 1974 A MAJOR EVENT TURNG POT FOR GAYS HAPPENED WHEN THE AMERIN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATN OFFICIALLY CHANGED S VIEW OF HOMOSEXUALY AS A MENTAL DISORR (A VICTORY THAT HAPPENED, KAMENY NOT HIS LETTER, BEE OF EFFORTS STARTED THE SIXTI). AND STONEWALL, WILY HELD TO HAVE KICKSTARTED THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT THIS UNTRY, HAPPENED 1969 (CLEARLY THE SIXTI, NO MATTER HOW LOOSELY YOU CHOOSE TO FE THEM).{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN THE END, SOUNDS LIKE BROKAW'S BOOK FAILS TO FULLY TELL THE STORY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

Frank Kameny won't be buyg Tom Brokaw's new book, Boom! Voic of the Sixti. The legendary gay activist's irked over Brokaw's straight-washg of * tom brokaw gay *

"But gay activists quickly noted that gay history was sparse the book's acunt of the 60's. Events like the Stonewall rts and the work of gay civil rights groups like The Council on Relign and the Homosexual and The Mattache Society are absent om the book, which loosely f the Sixti as omissns prompted gay activist Frank Kameny (who, as a -founr of the Mattache Society, was a part of many of the events that Brokaw skips) to wre an open letter to Brokaw about the portn of the era that Brokaw miss. We gays were very much a part of all that.

FRANK KAMENY TAK ON BROKAW’S GAY HISTORY

Tom Brokaw jt n't shake his straight-laced past! The newsman me unr gay fire last year after neglectg to clu gay folk his temporal * tom brokaw gay *

In your book, no boom; only your the start of the Sixti gays were pletely visible. Where are the gay spokpeople?

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But your book, only has yet to officially rpond to Kameny, but Radar magaze not that the former NBC News anchor discsed his excln of gays on CNN's Reliable Sourc, where Brokaw claimed that gay equaly didn't bee a movement until the 's certaly an odd exce, sce the Sixti clu several ton gay history that ntue to affect to this day.

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However, if Brokaw's history of the Sixti clus events om as far as 1974, his claim that LGBT advanc me after the perd he chronicled seems even more all, 1974 a major event turng pot for gays happened when the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn officially changed s view of homosexualy as a mental disorr (a victory that happened, Kameny not his letter, bee of efforts started the Sixti). And Stonewall, wily held to have kickstarted the gay rights movement this untry, happened 1969 (clearly the sixti, no matter how loosely you choose to fe them) the end, sounds like Brokaw's book fails to fully tell the story promis. a mentn of the gay rights movement.

man who ed "Gay Is Good" 1968. of any slightt alln to the gay movement for civil. '-gayed' the entire .

1969 or the removal of homosexualy om the Amerin. Why is the gay rights.

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