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ninekiwiz

the mane 6!! all of them!!

#PONIES #mlp fim #art

I read Watership Down for a book club and pretended that the main cast were all he/him butches on a quest to find femmes for the warren. And then drew them as anthros, as one does.

Hazel x Bigwig x Hyzenthlay is real to me

#this art is changing my brain chemistry 🫪#butch rabbits..... I'm looking so intensely #watership down #art

selective-yellow

i've been watching folks play pokemon champions & learning about competitive history like it's a sport and it's been making me miss my violet team! this is the only team that I've ever trained to lv 100

#YAAAAAA THIS IS REALLY COOL #I love how much personality they all have hehehe #also this is exactly the kind of team I would expect you to have slash pos #pokemon #friend art #art

briskchips

🔺MEGALOMANIAC🔺

#THIS GOES SO FUCKING HARD #cookie run kingdom #animatic #animation #video #art #crk

crewofthegoldrush

ain't always heaven baby, this livin' on the edge / you holdin' me holdin' you, it's a hell of a view

she/her for both

#please keep being insane about them #I love seeing them 💛#friend art #ma! the yellow lesbians are being gay again!#dnd #dungeons and dragons #art

appleshy-king

rarilight week day 6 - distracting each other

late for mermay, just in time for rarilight week :)

#CUTE CUTE CUTE #twilight so smitten hehe #friend art #art #mlp fim

largishcat

#smiles

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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.