Green Thursday, radio program, July 24, 1975
- PAUL: --In the morning, following
- Green Thursday, which is next.
- An hour long program produced by WCMF
- in Rochester, and by men from Rochester's gay community.
- (music plays)
- BOB CRYSTAL: This is Green Thursday for July 24, 1975.
- (music plays)
- BOB CRYSTAL: That was "Avalanche."
- Tonight I have Bruce Jewell and a tape of the gay pride
- rally in New York City.
- And we'll be playing that for you tonight.
- Bruce?
- BRUCE JEWELL: OK, I have a couple of announcements here.
- Coming up on July twenty-seventh,
- there's a business meeting at the gay brotherhood
- in the Genesee Co-Op on Monroe Avenue.
- If you'd like information about that business meeting,
- you can call 244-8640.
- Or if you'd just like information
- about the gay brotherhood, you can call 244-8640.
- Let's see, two weeks from now there's
- a meeting entitled "Psychodrama."
- That's on the tenth of August.
- That sounds pretty good.
- BOB CRYSTAL: That's going to be a little bit of exercises
- in getting to know each other.
- And we've done this before.
- Previous meetings would call it touching.
- And we've changed the title to "Psychodrama" too.
- We thought that it would bring in more people.
- They're usually very enjoyable.
- BRUCE JEWELL: If you need something more heavy than that,
- there's professional counseling for gays.
- Relationship counseling for gays, straights, and bisexual,
- emphasis on concern about interpersonal communications
- and conflict.
- Interviews by appointment.
- Call appointment coordinators Miss Susan (unintelligible)
- Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
- That's Miss Susan (unintelligible).
- Evening appointments are also available.
- They're through the Family Service of Rochester,
- Incorporated 31 Gibbs Street.
- And if you're interested in that counseling center,
- you can call 232-1840.
- BOB CRYSTAL: I'd like to say tonight
- that Kathy Thurston, who has worked with women in creating
- and producing the Lesbian Nation program,
- died Sunday from complications from an accident
- that she suffered.
- Kathy was a tremendous worker, and a really good person
- to know.
- And we'll all miss her.
- And we'd like just to have people know that she's died,
- and think about her a little bit.
- Bruce, would you like to introduce the tape for us?
- BRUCE JEWELL: Well before we have the tape,
- a song called "Nashville Blues," and then it's
- simply the segments of the gay pride rally
- that I thought would interest you, OK.
- (music plays)
- (applause)
- ANNOUNCER: This is it, baby, just look at each other.
- SUBJECT 1: We are.
- SUBJECT 2: I know.
- I know.
- ANNOUNCER: Are you good?
- Let's start off gay pride day.
- It's gotta be, are you ready for this?
- Alright, let's all hold hands.
- Come on, baby.
- Grab your brother and sisters and hold hands.
- I want to see it up.
- Hold those hands, brothers and sisters.
- And I want to hear you yell, gay pride, baby.
- CROWD: Gay pride!
- ANNOUNCER: How are you, gorgeous?
- Alright, let's welcome Jade and Sarsaparilla!
- (cheering)
- (live music plays)
- Thought I had a problem.
- I thought that I was sick.
- A ludicrous idea in a country run by Dick.
- I first ran to the preacher.
- And then ran to my shrink.
- They screamed, "You need repair work.
- Your love is out of sync."
- Mother was embarrassed.
- Father was upset.
- They're holding me committed.
- I'm treated like a pet.
- I refused both invitations And ran into your arms.
- Knowing I was damned to hell when heaven sent your charms.
- And I need a drink of water in my mind.
- Well it's dirty from the way our love survived.
- I can't seem to get it clean with smoke and wine.
- And I need to drink your water in my mind.
- I could not live without you.
- I had to live in shame.
- Guilty and embarrassed, that our plumbing was the same.
- A camera caught us playing.
- The plumber was a spy.
- And in the eye of the beholder is where perversion lies.
- And I need a drink of water in my mind.
- Well it's dirty from the way our love survived.
- I can't seem to get it clean with smoke and wine.
- And I need to drink your water in my mind.
- In this lonesome cell I realized, that something
- was amiss.
- Something very different, from the rightness of our kiss.
- It's a major revelation, you know,
- that the world itself is lewd.
- And it ain't just by each other that we are being screwed.
- And I need a drink of water in my mind.
- Well it's dirty from the way our love survived.
- I can't seem to get it clean with smoke and wine.
- And I need to drink your water in my mind.
- And I need to drink your water in my mind.
- And I need to drink your water in my mind.
- (applause)
- ANNOUNCER: Let's hear this loud and clear.
- There are people here today that must have a standing ovation.
- They're parents of gays, let's hear it for them!
- (applause)
- (cheering)
- ANNOUNCER: Aren't they beautiful?
- RALLY ATTENDEE: Yes, they are.
- ANNOUNCER: Let me tell you about the parents of gays.
- A lot of them are in their seventies and eighties.
- And baby, they can outwalk Mama Jean.
- They are beautiful.
- Let's hear it for the parents of gays.
- Come on!
- (applause)
- ANNOUNCER: Our first speaker of the day,
- is a woman called Sarah Montgomery.
- And baby, she's beautiful.
- Let's hear it for Mrs. Sarah Montgomery!
- (applause)
- ANNOUNCER: A standing ovation for Mrs. Sarah Montgomery!
- (cheering)
- SARAH MONTGOMERY: Can you hear me?
- CROWD: Yes!
- SARAH MONTGOMERY: Great. (unintelligible).
- Too long have you, my dear beautiful gay sisters
- and brothers.
- (applause)
- I bring you greetings from Parents of Gays.
- But this year, I want to look back a little
- and tell you I have come full circle.
- It so happened, I marched in the first gay parade,
- not even knowing it was the first.
- I remember I wrote to the newspaper Gay
- and said that I knew no other parents,
- but had decided any way to walk with, and not
- for, my gay people.
- (cheering)
- The next (unintelligible) I walked with the men.
- Next year, I decided to walk with the women.
- (cheering)
- I was told by my friends, everyone
- will say you are a lesbian.
- (cheering)
- My answer was, so what?
- (cheering)
- (applause)
- The third year, I was out of the country.
- And I-- but the fourth year, I had found Parents of Gays.
- So for three years now, I have marched with the parents.
- You see you have to live and experience as well
- as read to really learn.
- I learned that it was important that gay people know
- there are parents who fully accept and believe in them.
- (applause)
- But I have also learned by these years with Parents of Gays
- that my first feelings were equally correct.
- Yes, I am a parent of a gay son.
- But I still do walk with all of you.
- (applause)
- That's where all parents should be.
- We do not love our children in spite of who
- or what they are, but just exactly as they are.
- RALLY ATTENDEE: Right on.
- SARAH MONTGOMERY: It may sound like a subtle and fine
- distinction, but I've learned it's a very real and vital
- difference.
- For one thing, no one wants to be loved in spite of,
- but just exactly as they are.
- (applause)
- But I've also learned that if you fight only
- for your own child, you never come to a full understanding
- that your child's very life depends on the full freedom
- and well-being of every gay person in this country.
- (applause)
- So it is that this day I marched with the parents
- for the first reason.
- But truly, I marched with all of you,
- but with an ever deepening understanding
- that no one is safe so long as anyone is threatened.
- This is the time of year when all gay people drop
- their differences, and in ever-growing numbers realize
- in-depth, that the deeper truth you are all safe
- only together, not separated.
- You must come to know your need for each other.
- And then I'm sure, I'm very sure,
- you will find the way to both differences and unity.
- I sometimes think gay people will have a better
- chance than straights to see this and understand it fully.
- Your own search for identity in your beingness, so very
- young, starts so very young, faced
- with a hostile world, your search for truth
- and for reality in your own beingness
- can so easily make you also more understanding
- of another person's equally desperate search
- for themselves.
- But these are years of decision for all of us.
- As your movement grows, you will have
- to face both the differences and the even more important need
- for unity.
- Never forget another fact, as you
- grow in strength and determination,
- and more and more of you come out of the closets,
- and take your places beside your fighting sisters and brothers,
- your enemies will also become alarmed and go into battle
- earlier, and more openly.
- I will--
- (applause)
- --I will take just one example.
- Last year in New York, the Gay Civil Rights Bill
- almost passed.
- But because the archdiocese of the Catholic Church--
- (booing)
- --got into action very late, and only
- defeated it by one or two votes.
- This year, seeing your increasing growth,
- you're reaching into the radio, the TV,
- with more and more favorable comments into the press.
- With sympathetic articles, they've
- watched you grow stronger and stronger.
- So this year, the archdiocese went into action early.
- They have mounted a vicious campaign very, very early.
- You can be both outraged at this, but also flattered.
- It's proof of your growing strength.
- An unpleasant flattery, I admit, but it has also worked,
- as all enemy attacks always work,
- it is unifying the gays of New York.
- It may frighten some.
- It's true.
- (applause)
- But it will also intensify your unity, your courage,
- and your fighting spirit.
- And whether the archdiocese likes it or not,
- they may or may not once more defeat our bill.
- But they will also lose many thousands of Catholic members.
- (cheering)
- Let all the homophobiacs and anti-gays learn this fact.
- Being gay is just a part of nature,
- not a social problem, not a choice, not a conversion.
- It has been and will continue to be a simple fact of life.
- We are born heterosexual, or homosexual,
- and all degrees in-between.
- RALLY ATTENDEE: Right on.
- (cheering)
- SARAH MONTGOMERY: This has been truth for many, many thousands
- of years.
- It's been true in every society human beings have created.
- It's been dealt with through the ages in a more or less
- permissive degree.
- But if homosexuality could have been eliminated,
- it would have been eliminated thousands of years ago.
- (cheering)
- Because there have been so many efforts to do so.
- Every religion has tried.
- All they have ever succeeded in doing
- is either driving women and men deep into the closet,
- or losing their membership.
- No society, no matter how repressive their laws has ever
- been or ever will be, to my mind,
- succeed in eliminating gay people.
- For thousands of years they have tried.
- But fully straight parents through all the ages
- have continued to bear gay children.
- Why?
- No one on this earth knows.
- And again, through my way of thinking,
- it's not even necessary to know.
- (cheering)
- There will always be enough heterosexuals
- born to populate the earth, even to overpopulate it.
- (cheering)
- Right now here in the USA, we face vast problems,
- a horrible growth of unemployment,
- as mechanization leaps forward.
- It can either spare human beings long hours
- of repetitive and empty labor.
- Or it can, and as at this time seems
- to be doing, to increase unemployment, devastate
- lives, create hunger, and increase towards a war machine.
- We are closing our schools, increasing ignorance, closing
- our hospitals, closing our industries,
- and polluting our air, water, and land.
- These are real issues.
- Let the churches and the synagogues,
- and the homophobiacs try to divert women's and men's minds
- from these very real and desperate problems
- by attacking gay people.
- It has never worked and never will.
- Yes, the very rich--
- yes the very rich and very powerful
- have always been allowed any lifestyle they prefer.
- It's the person who needs a job that
- will bear the brunt of all these oppressions and the problems
- I have mentioned.
- It won't be too long before you will find allies
- among other oppressed groups.
- I truly think that's exactly what the powers that be really
- fear, not your sexual orientation,
- but rather your need for peace and jobs
- will force you and other oppressed groups
- to eventually join forces to solve the human problems.
- (applause)
- You will never get discouraged in that endless fight for truth
- and well-being of all of us.
- In organizing, your learn when, where, and how to fight.
- You learn who are your possible allies,
- and who are your real enemies.
- But be quite deeply sure that in the truth we'll prevail.
- V for victory.
- (cheering)
- (applause)
- BRUCE JEWELL: Sally Eaton.
- SALLY EATON: Mr. Norman Rollings on piano.
- (applause)
- (live music plays)
- Like a bird on the wire.
- Like a drunk in a midnight choir.
- I have tried in my way to be free.
- Like a worm on the hook, like a knight
- in an old fashioned book, I have worn all my ribbons,
- oh honey, just for thee.
- And if I have been unkind, I hope you just,
- hope you just, just let it go behind.
- And if I have been untrue and I, well, I hope you know,
- I hope you know, hope you know darling it was never to you.
- Like a baby stillborn, like a beast with it's horn,
- I have torn everyone that reached out to me.
- But I swear by this song, and I swear
- by everything that's gone wrong, I will find me some way ah,
- just to make it all to you.
- Like a bird on the wire, just like the drunk in the midnight
- choir, I have tried in my way to be free.
- (applause)
- BRUCE JEWELL: Bruce Voeller.
- BRUCE VOELLER: --North America now
- have adopted some manner of protection of gay people.
- Twelve states, their legislatures
- in the last few months have repealed their sodomy laws,
- their restrictions on what we do.
- (cheering)
- The National Council of Churches adopted a resolution
- saying it was morally wrong to discriminate against gays, that
- are urging the Congress, and state, and city legislatures
- to pass gay rights bills.
- Those are big things and we're not alone anymore.
- An important thing happens, though, from time to time.
- And that's that a very human thing happens,
- a very special thing that doesn't
- have that kind of impersonality of a law being passed,
- or something of the sort like that.
- From time to time, a person comes along
- who does a very dramatic and a very brave
- and defined act on behalf of gay people everywhere.
- Another thing that's just happened
- is that a whole series of people in the armed forces
- have come out and united to fight (unintelligible).
- (applause)
- I have with me four of those people who have done
- a particularly striking thing.
- Two lesbian WACs from up in Boston.
- (cheering)
- I want to tell you who they are in case, by any chance,
- someone doesn't know.
- They're Private First Class Barbara Randolph, and Private
- Debbie Watson from--
- (applause)
- And two gay Air Force sergeants, Tech.
- Sergeant Leonard Matlovich--
- (cheering)
- --and we have also Sergeant Skip Keith, who has just come out.
- He did this just the last few days.
- (cheering)
- They're going to talk for themselves.
- Before I do it, I want to introduce one other person,
- and that's Dave Krause from the Gay Veterans Action.
- He himself is a veteran and openly gay.
- There are lots of you, I know, in this audience
- that are, a lot of people march with the veterans group.
- And right on.
- We want to have as many people who are veterans,
- and had honorable discharges, and who
- are gay, write affidavits for these people,
- for their hearings.
- They badly and desperately need to have any of you who
- are veterans and had honorable discharges
- to write and say you were gay and you
- were in the armed forces.
- And get those letters to us.
- (applause)
- One last thing, they also need money for their hearings,
- and for bringing in the expert witnesses,
- and all the people who are going to testify at their hearings,
- please send money to the Military Rights Project
- at the American Civil Liberties Union.
- Or if you send it to the National Gay Task
- Force, earmarked for their fund, we'll send it on to them.
- (applause)
- BARBARA RANDOLPH: I just can't believe this.
- I mean, in the army, so many things are hidden.
- And to see so many of you out here, it's just so beautiful.
- And together, sisters and brothers, we'll win.
- (cheering)
- BRUCE VOELLER: Debbie.
- DEBBIE WATSON: I just want to thank you all for coming.
- Because it just means so much to us in our fight.
- It just gives us so much will to go on.
- You just don't know how much it means.
- (cheering)
- RALLY ATTENDEE: Bravo!
- Bravo!
- Bravo!
- BRUCE VOELLER: And next, a jet engineer from the US Air Force,
- Skip, you're on.
- (cheering)
- SKIP KEITH: What can I say, you're all so beautiful.
- Everybody say, cheese!
- CROWD: Cheese!
- (applause)
- SKIP KEITH: This is really fantastic.
- I think that one of the main things
- that we as gays, the biggest problems that we have is that,
- gosh, usually we're so invisible.
- I mean we learned it the hard way at such an early age,
- was as long as people can deal with us as living, breathing,
- visible human beings, they have got to change the stereotypes.
- And that was one of the main reasons
- that I came out in my last race relations class
- on the twenty-third of May.
- And then like right after that, that was the Friday.
- And that Monday, Len Matlovich's case hit the paper,
- but I missed it because I was off on a trip.
- And I didn't get back until like Thursday that night.
- And I found out about it.
- It really was like a jaw dropper.
- And I just want to say, really, thanks a lot.
- We really appreciate it.
- And as long as we got this many gays, you're working together.
- This is one city.
- I mean, we know what's going on out on the West Coast now too.
- We'd like to get, really, as many gays, especially
- in military right now, who can pull off
- the restraints of the closet and come out,
- it would make it really so much easier for our cases.
- Because the more of us the DOD, Department of Defense,
- has to deal with, the worse it's going
- to be for them to continue their ridiculously hypocritical
- policies about gays in the military.
- (cheering)
- DOD knows damn well that there are thousands
- of us in the military.
- (applause)
- There have been always.
- There are now.
- There have been in the past.
- There are now.
- There always will be.
- And it's really foolish of them.
- RALLY ATTENDEE: (unintelligible)
- SKIP KEITH: Right, we're trying.
- We're trying.
- It's really foolish for them to continue
- this ridiculously oppressive policies, which
- is a classic and blatant violation
- of our constitutional rights, denying of our person,
- you know, discriminating against a person purely because
- of sexual orientation, which we have about as much control
- over as your height.
- (cheering)
- So we really appreciate this.
- I sincerely want to tell you that we really appreciate this.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
- (applause)
- BRUCE VOELLER: I'd like to tell you a little incident that's
- happened recently.
- Lenny Matlovich, the Sergeant behind me,
- has for twelve years, had the highest possible score rating
- on his personnel records, every year on his annual report.
- The scale goes from zero to nine.
- He's had nothing but nines for every one of those twelve years
- until this year after he announced
- that he was a homosexual.
- He received his first lower rating than that.
- He has a zero for this year.
- (cheering)
- LEONARD MATLOVICH: If my voice begins to crack,
- it's because I've never been before so many beautiful people
- in my whole life.
- You're beautiful.
- I love each and every one of you.
- (applause)
- Earth, Wind, and Fire, they've said it.
- You are a shining star.
- Each and every one of you are a shining star.
- Let's let your light shine out from every rooftop,
- from every church steeple in this land.
- Let's let all know that we're gay and we're proud of it.
- (cheering)
- This isn't my quote, but it's from someone else.
- A man that was in the Marine Corps.
- I don't know who he was, but if he's ever around,
- please introduce yourself.
- He said that-- yeah right.
- Right, he said that, "When I was in the Marine Corps,
- I received a medal for killing two men,
- and a dishonorable discharge for loving one."
- RALLY ATTENDEE: Oy!
- (applause)
- LEONARD MATLOVICH: What a crazy, mixed up world
- we live in when you're rewarded for hating
- and put down for loving.
- You are a shining star, shining bright to see
- what you can truly be.
- Let equality and justice ring from every rooftop
- in this land.
- Thank you.
- And we love you.
- (cheering)
- ANNOUNCER: The next group I'm bringing out to you--
- (cheering)
- RALLY ATTENDEE: Let's stay together!
- ANNOUNCER: --is the group that was received the best here
- last year.
- They are loved here all around.
- They've been heard on many radio stations, club dates
- throughout the states.
- Two weeks ago, they played at the Statehouse
- for the Massachusetts State Legislature with Elaine Noble.
- They played Boston City Hall for the Speaker of the House
- and the Mayor of Boston, none other--
- and give them a warm welcome--
- The Deadly Nightshade!
- (cheering)
- THE DEADLY NIGHTSHADE: Thank you, thank you.
- Now I sure hope it doesn't rain.
- I want everybody to think sun.
- --On July fourth, Independence Day.
- It's called "High Flying Woman."
- (cheering)
- (live music playing)
- Did you ever think that you lived in a cage?
- Did you ever think that you lived in a cage?
- Well they're calling you a jerk, and the name just
- seems to stick.
- And you still don't think you're living in a cage.
- Have you heard?
- Have you heard?
- There's a migration happening, going
- where the thinking is free.
- Only you can decide.
- Take yourself for a (unintelligible).
- You're a free flying woman, a high flying woman.
- Did you ever think that you were up a tree?
- Did you ever think that you were up a tree?
- Well they're calling you a name that makes (unintelligible)
- their game.
- And you still don't think that you are up a tree.
- Have you heard?
- Have you heard?
- There's a migration happening, going
- where the thinking is free.
- Only you can decide.
- Take yourself for a (unintelligible)
- You're a free flying woman, a high flying woman.
- Is there someone out there trying to shoot you down?
- And they tell you they're not trying to shoot you down.
- Well they're telling you a lie.
- Chicks that (unintelligible), but they don't fly.
- And you don't have to stay down on the ground.
- Have you heard?
- Have you heard?
- There's a migration happening, going
- where the thinking is free.
- Only you can decide.
- Take yourself for a (unintelligible).
- You're a free flying woman, a high flying woman.
- You're a free flying woman, a high flying woman.
- (cheering)
- BRUCE JEWELL: This is WCMF FM, Rochester, New York.
- You've just been listening to the gay pride rally.
- And, or selected segments of it.
- The thing ended with a blast of thunder and a downpour of rain.
- BOB CRYSTAL: The first rain in six years.
- BRUCE JEWELL: And the covering of all the sound equipment.
- So it ended prematurely, and a great deal
- of the entertainment, and many of the speakers
- that were scheduled did not come on stage.
- The keynote speaker of the day was Sarah Montgomery,
- a woman in her seventies who is the mother of a gay man.
- And I think she gave quite a spirited speech.
- The problems of unemployment are touching all of us.
- And she drew a particularly great response from the crowd,
- talking about the unemployment situation
- and what was happening to people's lives because of it.
- Well now, I think we'll have the news for July 24, 1975,
- here on Green Thursday.
- BOB CRYSTAL: Constant pressure from gay activists and court
- decisions have won a major advance for gay rights
- with the US Civil Service Commission's decision
- to drop its ban on homosexuals in civilian federal government
- jobs.
- On the day before Independence Day,
- the commission issued new regulations and guidelines,
- which replaced the previous policy with one which
- bows to court rulings, that the government must show
- some connections between a person's
- homosexuality and his or her ability
- to perform a job before it can fire or refuse
- to hire that person.
- In the past, the mere discovery that a person was a homosexual
- was enough for dismissal by the Civil Service Commission,
- which has the power to oust an employee
- during his or her first year of federal employment.
- The commission's argument was that the presence
- of a homosexual would bring public shame on an agency
- in which he or she worked.
- The new guidelines state, quote, "Court decisions
- require that persons not be disqualified
- from federal employment solely on the basis
- of homosexual conduct.
- The commission and agencies have been
- enjoined not to find a person unsuitable
- for federal employment solely because that person
- is a homosexual or has engaged in homosexual acts.
- Based on these court decisions and outstanding injunctions,
- while a person may not be found unsuitable
- based on unsubstantiated conclusions concerning
- possible embarrassment to the federal service,
- a person may be dismissed or found unsuitable
- for federal employment where the evidence establishes
- that such a person's sexual conduct affects job fitness."
- End quote.
- Frank Kameny, President of the Mattachine Society
- of Washington, greated the change as quote,
- "Basically what I and others have been working
- for over many years," unquote.
- BRUCE JEWELL: The American Medical Association
- has gone on record as being in support
- of, quote, "Repeal of laws, which classify as criminal,
- any form of noncommercial sexual conduct between consenting
- adults in private.
- Save only those portions of which
- protect minors, public decorum, or the mentally incompetent,"
- unquote.
- However, the medics rejected a motion,
- which would have supported an end to employment
- discrimination based on private consensual sex behavior.
- BOB CRYSTAL: Ma Bell's west coast affiliate
- may lose its contracts with the city
- of San Francisco in a major test of sections of the city's
- nondiscrimination ordinance, banning discrimination
- against gay people.
- The Human Rights Commission released its findings
- June twenty-eighth, that Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
- quote, "Maintains a policy prohibiting
- the hiring or retention of manifest homosexuals," unquote.
- The city ordinance bans discrimination
- in hiring by city agencies, and by those companies contracting
- with the city.
- Pacific Telephone and Telegraph has
- contracts with the city's department
- of public works for the installation
- and maintenance of telephones on the city's sidewalks.
- The city must void its contracts with companies
- found to be in violation of the nondiscrimination ordinance.
- In addition, the offending contractor
- is barred from future contracts with the city for a two year
- period.
- Pacific Telephone and Telegraph's policy
- on gay people called "Employment of Homosexual's" was
- obtained by the San Francisco Human Rights Commission
- in 1974.
- The policy says, quote, "We do not
- give favorable consideration in the employment process
- to anyone who, in our judgment, may create conflicts
- within existing employees or the public we serve.
- This includes, but is not limited to,
- any manifest homosexual," unquote.
- Pacific Telephone and Telegraph, a state protected monopoly,
- installs and owns most of California's telephones,
- and is one of the state's biggest private employers.
- There is no question that the company's anti-gay policy
- came down from the very top of the multi-million dollar
- corporation.
- And the struggle to overturn it may become a heated fight
- as the city of San Francisco takes on Pacific Telephone
- and Telegraph.
- BRUCE JEWELL: An equal opportunity ordinance,
- which would have banned discrimination
- against gay people, was defeated by the city council in Duluth,
- Minnesota by a 7 to 2 vote.
- Sections of the bill covering quote,
- "sexual or affectional preference" unquote,
- were blamed for the defeat.
- Other anti-discrimination criteria
- included in the proposed ordinance
- were age, sex, disabilities, marital status, race, color,
- religion, and national origin.
- The news was from The Advocate number
- one hundred and sixty-eight.
- And this has been the news for Green Thursday.
- OK, I guess that just about it for this evening.
- BOB CRYSTAL: Next week, Lesbian Nation will be on.
- And the week after that, Wednesday,
- at midnight, Thursday morning, Green Tuesday will be back.
- Bruce, do we have a tape for that evening?
- BRUCE JEWELL: Well no, I don't think we have a tape.
- Been a great deal happening in the last month
- or so in the gay movement.
- I thought we'd take some commentaries
- from the newspapers and from the straight press
- as well, which has been giving us little bits here and there,
- and talk about those things.
- BOB CRYSTAL: OK.
- I'd like to point out that Green Thursday and WCMF are
- the only pieces of media in Rochester
- that covered the march of fifty thousand people.
- And that's not good.
- Don't go cheering there, (unintelligible).
- That, I mean, it's good for WCMF,
- but it really says something about our news reportage.
- And if I remember correctly, I asked people at CMF
- to see if the UPI or the AP wire services would cover it.
- And I wasn't told.
- I don't think they did.
- So we were there.
- And the reporters were there.
- But somehow the communication between the reporters
- and the populace broke down.
- We'll close tonight with Mother Maybelle Carter,
- "Keep on the Sunny Side."
- (music plays)
- PAUL: Views and opinions expressed
- on Green Thursday do not necessarily
- represent those of WCMF, its staff, or management.
- Green Thursday is an hour long program
- produced by WCMF in Rochester, and by men from the Rochester
- gay community.
- It may be next heard two weeks from tonight at 12:00 a.m.
- Thursday morning.
- Meanwhile, next Thursday morning at 12:00 a.m.
- Lesbian Nation will be on the air.
- On August twenty-third, John (unintelligible) and WCMF
- present in Syracuse, the Great American Music Fair.
- That features the Stanky Brown Group, the New Riders
- of the Purple Sage, America, Jefferson Starship, the Doobie
- Brothers, and the Beach Boys.
- On Friday and Saturday, August first and second,
- Summer School Productions and WCMF
- present Bat Magrath, Don Potter, Michael Bacon,
- and Rob Galbraith at the Rochester Community Playhouse.
- Old Salt will be at the Penny Arcade tonight.
- (unintelligible) at the Wine Press,
- Geoff Muldaur at the Red Creek, Vixen at the Fairport Village
- Inn, the Earl Weems Revue at the Cottage Hotel in
- (unintelligible), and Iota will be at the Purple
- Pig on Route 64 in Bristol.
- WCMF announces a Rock Guide.
- That's a detailed list of radio stations
- throughout the country, giving you the band and the frequency.
- The WCMF Rock Guide is available now at all (unintelligible)
- locations.
- On the radio this Saturday night at ten o'clock
- we'll be doing Rock Around the World
- that features import music this week from Wales,
- and some groups such as David Edmonds, and Man,
- and we'll also feature some live recordings of Gentle Giant.
- And if you're into Gentle Giant, do not miss it.
- It is excellent.
- They do the five minute recorder thing
- they go through when they do (unintelligible)
- in concert, and their acoustic guitar things they go through.
- If you've ever seen them in concert,
- and you know what they always do all the time in concert,
- and they never do on their records,
- you'll have a chance to hear it on the radio, Saturday night
- at ten.
- Sunday night at eight thirty, we start the King Biscuit Flour
- Hour, half an hour early, so we can
- do an hour and a half special featuring Alice Cooper.
- From ten to ten thirty, it's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,
- with the episode The Lion's Mane.
- And after Sherlock at ten thirty,
- we zap over to the Wine Press to bring you
- a live concert with Petrus.
- That's the music calendar.
- I'm Paul (unintelligible), I'll be here till six o'clock
- in the morning.
- (music plays)