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whats up im cassian and ur watching dicksney channel

all band/music posting will now take place over at @betweenscreamingandcrying (i need it separate from this junk drawer ass blog).

also in the process of setting up @lyricalthemes which is a self indulgent blog where i will be posting themes n such for anyone to share songs/lyrics that they view as fitting it. the target audience is Me.

no dni list; this is a talk shit get hit and/or use the block button at will blog.

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I love listening to really old music. Dude’s bragging about how long he can have sex with a full brass band behind him.

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I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.

The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.

So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.

Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.

It appears that no one has made the connection between Dale Olson the publicity agent instrumental in the AIDS debate and Dale Olson the 22-year-old first openly gay man on TV. So I thought I’d make it. For Pride month, an unsung gay hero.

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RATING: RELIABLE

you can listen to the clip of the 1954 interview here and find him on wikipedia here

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“you cant ship them theyre sibling coded!!” and it’s just two people who are friends

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dino saurs were not scary monsters they were mamas with eggs and when they drank water they were like fuckk yessss waterrrr

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and the winner of superwholock is officially??? no one. we all lost. congrats team

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ROGER IN FISHNETS ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE // 1983 [gelatin silver print | 15 ½ x 15 1/4″]

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My coworker had managed to catch 3 out of 4 kittens that a neighborhood semi-feral popped out 5 weeks ago. So now they are at work to be tamed and found new homes.