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[monsieurrobot]

[uryyybel-deactivated20190320]

[sua-sponte-deactivated20200331]

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.

[is-the-post-reliable]

RATING: RELIABLE

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

[deadpan-c]

i wanna try an experiment

without coordinating or telling anyone the correct answer, guess the most popular one:

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Voting ended onJun 9, 2024

reblog for sample size pls thx

[kaykayparade]

Every friend group should include...

My take on this post but with the Baldurs Gate 3 companions

[galebrainrot2024]

this made me howl with glee. I love it.

[funeralshawls]

pick ONE :3

sword

gun

axe

whip

bow & arrows

other (tags!!!)

Voting ended onMar 16, 2024

[funeralshawls]

haven’t had to beg for a hot min but since this pay cycle will accumulate $0 from being out sick is there any way at all i can get some change towards gas / tuneup? if u can’t spare it u can’t spare it but even a share helps. yakoke / thank u

all links r $ funeralshawls

[fizzydog-deactivated20240325]

if u say u wouldnt fuck a werewolf first of all ur lying and second ur a coward

[wizardwank]

[userachel]

[valtsv]

villains are so funny when they start begging for their lives like "ohhhh but if you kill me you'll be just as bad as me" dude you killed all the good guys it's only us murderous cunts left

[headspace-hotel]

The best Wikipedia lists

List of inventors killed by their own inventions

List of scandals with the -gate suffix

List of noodles

List of hoaxes

List of pirates

Response to sneezing - that is, what you say after someone sneezes

List of places in the U.S. named after places elsewhere

List of songs about bicycles

List of American advertising characters (e.g. the geico gecko. There is also an article for breakfast cereal mascots specifically.)

List of unusual deaths

List of superlative trees - its TREE APPRECIATION TIME

Recursive islands and lakes

List of Crayola crayon colors

List of individual birds. There is SO much going on here.

List of deep-fried foods (aaaaaaa)

List of words that are their own antonyms

List of genres (of...everything)

List of onomatopoeias - READ THIS PLEASE

List of Noah’s Ark replicas

List of people who have been pied

List of voids - This is meant in the astronomy sense but I think the name is funny.

List of animal sounds

List of cryptids

List of prison escapes

List of discredited substances - there’s a LOT going on here

List of methods of capital punishment

List of wartime cross-dressers

List of extinct dog breeds. this topic contains some of my favorite obscure facts

List of songs considered to be the worst - there is also an article about the worst books and one about the worst movies, if you’re interested

List of facial hair styles

List of clowns

List of sexually active popes - I just think it’s funny that this is an article

List of reportedly haunted locations

List of animals with fraudulent diplomas

List of people who died on the toilet

List of English language metaphors

List of bad luck signs

[sa-patchnotes]

the onomatopoeias 😂😂

[prokopetz]

You wouldn’t think that flamingoes are extremophiles just from looking at them. It’s like somebody tried to build the vertebrate equivalent of that fungus that lives inside nuclear reactors, and ended up with a gangly pink dinosaur with a spoon for a face.

[calloutnevvegas]

For everyone in the comments asking how flamingos are extremophiles:

Flamingos can survive in low oxygen, high altitude, high temperatures, low temperatures, high alkaline, they can and will drink boiling water and they can be completely frozen at night and still get up the next morning

Don’t fuck with flamingos

[revretch]

….. Didn’t know most of that

[iamthekaijuking]

Huh… so that’s why zoos don’t put them somewhere warm during winter.

[revretch]

Oh yeah, this leaves out what I *did* know about them–they can also survive hypersalinity. That is, water so salty it kills practically everything else–water so salty it burns your skin.

American flamingos just drink that shit

[bogleech]

(animal death) this is a real undoctored photograph (*though the body was stood up for the shot) of a dead flamingo on the surface of lake natron, a lake so salty and so alkaline that it’s naturally carbonated like soda and would eat through your stomach lining if you drank from it.

When this photo went viral years ago, most people assumed this poor flamingo must have been killed by the lake.

It is actually the lake where 75% of its global population are hatched. This is a photo from the same lake:

[assuming-dinosaur]

Some species of flamingo actually subsist almost entirely on a diet of bacteria! In other words, there is a species of dinosaur that eats only bacteria and lives in lakes so toxic they would kill almost anything else—and it is best known to the average person as a kitschy lawn decoration.

[body-of-ouches]

Got these insert for my boots- just lace them in, and your boots are now zip ups! Excellent for people like me with weak joints that struggle with laces but love boots!!

They have so many colours!!! Website is www.tongueties.co.uk

Tongue Ties - colourful inserts to personalise and improve accessibility of boots

NOT A PAID ADVERT I JUST BOUGHT THEM AND LOVE THEM!!

[dancinbutterfly]

REMINDER: YOU DO NOT NEED TO HAVE ACCESSIBILITY ISSUES TO USE ACCESSIBILITY PRODUCTS USING ACCESSIBILITY PRODUCTS HELPS THEM BECOME MORE VIABLE TO PEOPLE WHO NEED THEM (so if you're like me and your hands work fine and you just hate lacing up your fucking boots, maybe get them anyway?)

[copperplatebeech]

Reblogging because I love cool shit even if I do not wear boots or currently have any significant disability, and also because anything that comes in a dozen colors is inherently the shizz

[electricheart]

catalina_cheng

[jame7t]

*gets creampied evilly*

[inkthecryptid]

There’s something I gotta change about myself

[jame7t]

you’re too far gone

[tatterdemalionamberite]

this is one of the most magnificent stinkers I’ve read all year

[fourpawrule]

YES. GOOD.

[inkbirdart]

This is my favorite thing

[theriu]

I am so incredibly proud of this person.

[a-queer-seminarian]

id: a tweet reading “If an angel is removed from  a fountain, does that make it a sans seraph font?” with a reply reading in all caps “Why are you like this”

[secondbeatsongs]

yeah, sure. gas mask, gay bar, guillotine, or whatever

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[cedarspiced]

[meowthiroth]

can’t believe today is the 10th anniversary of This Motherfucker and I haven’t heard a single peep about it on here all morning

[headspace-hotel]

Ah yes, the Onceler, or as I like to call him "Not The Worst Dr. Seuss Character To Sexualize, All Things Considered"

[omgthatdress]

If anyone out there is struggling with any loved ones caught up in the Qanon cult, here’s two great videos to help address it all, from a white supremacist cult survivor turned expert on de-radicalization

one for Q-followers who are starting to come out of the delusion

and one for people with loved ones still in the delusion: