These are selected videos rarely seen on the Internet that actually tell the real life stories of those fighting for equal civil rights for homosexuals.
Sasha McCafferty gives a hilarious description of the day he met Quentin Crisp in East Village. This video captures one of the great story-tellers of our day.
The hilarity continues as Sasha McCafferty fulfills Quentin's wish and takes him to the opera. Only menancing toughs and a stupid cab driver stand in their way.
A young boy from Holland sings a song about having two fathers as part of that country's public television's educational effort aimed at children.
Historic video of an early demonstration by Gay Activist Alliance demanding employment opportunities at AT&T. Many onllokers objected to the idea;.
An artful interplay of music and candlelight captured at an AIDS Memorial Service in 1992 before a cure had been found.
"Goodbye My Friend" sung by Linda David at an AIDS Memorial Service in 1991 rose to the status of a secular hymn. Balloons with loved ones names were carried & released after the service.
Reality publishing" has changed the way celebrity biographies are being written today. Danforth Prince's Blood Moon Procuctions has captured the scholastic market for this new genre which documents the private lives of Hollywood stars in revealing detail without being salacious. He discusses his latest books on Marlin Brando, Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart which have received international acclaim and tells how these successes have led to production/scripting relationships with The Discovery Channel and 20th Century Fox.
Mark Segal, Pennsylvania's first gay male state trooper, explains embracing the rationale: "love of men in uniforms". He recalls days of drug torture, church burnings and discrimination against gays labeled as "sexual deviants". Here is real gay history told by an activist who has both lived & made it. This short segment was part of an extraordinary living-history event held at The National Constitutional Center in Philadelphia, Pa. celebrating the life of Barbara Gittings, a woman who became to all those who knew her as a living "Statue of Liberty".
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