Green Thursday, radio program, July 24, 1975, source recording
- (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.
- (Applause)
- DEBBIE WATSON: I just want to thank you
- all for coming, 'cause 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.
- (Applause)
- BRUCE VOELLER: And next, a jet engineer from the US Air Force,
- Skip, you're on.
- (Applause)
- SKIP KEITH: What can I say?
- You're all so beautiful.
- Everybody say cheese!
- AUDIENCE: Cheese!
- (Applause)
- SKIP KEITH: This is really fantastic,
- and 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 learn to hide from such an early age.
- But as long as people can deal with us as a living, breathing,
- visible human beings, they have got
- to change their stereotypes.
- And that was one of the main reason
- that I came out in my last race relations class
- on the 23rd of May.
- And then right after that, that was a 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've got this many gays
- who are willing to gather.
- This is one city, I mean, we know
- what's going on the West Coast now, too.
- We'd like to get really, as many gays,
- especially in the military right now,
- who can throw 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 that 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.
- They know--
- (Applause)
- DOD knows damn well that they have thousands of us
- in the military, they have--
- (Applause)
- AUDIENCE MEMBER: Right on.
- SKIP KEITH: There have been always, there are now.
- There have been in the past, there are now,
- and there always will be.
- And it's really foolish of them right,
- 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 a person,
- discriminating against a person purely because
- of sexual orientation.
- Which we have about as much control over as your height.
- AUDIENCE MEMBER: Right on.
- (Applause)
- SKIP KEITH: We really appreciate this.
- I sincerely want to tell you that we really appreciate this.
- Thank you, thank you, thank you.
- AUDIENCE MEMBER: Thank you.
- (Applause)
- ANNOUNCER: Let's hear it, baby.
- Let's hear it.
- AUDIENCE MEMBER: Bravo.
- (Applause)
- Bravo.
- Bravo.
- ANNOUNCER: OK, here's a job for us.
- Are you ready with don't take my picture, darling.
- (Laughter)
- She knows already, she sleeps with me every night.
- (Laughter)
- (Applause)
- AUDIENCE MEMBER: Go ahead, mama.
- ANNOUNCER: Their court case is coming up.
- I'm starting off, and we've got to help our people.
- I'm coming out in that audience, and I want your money, baby.
- Because we're gonna back them up and we're gonna do it today.
- Are you with me?
- AUDIENCE MEMBER: Right on.
- (Applause)
- ANNOUNCER: I'm coming out, so get that money out
- of your pockets, baby.
- Let's give them a welcome, and let's hear it.
- (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.
- He's got 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.
- (Laughter)
- (Applause)
- 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 are proud of it.
- (Applause)
- 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.
- 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."
- AUDIENCE MEMBER: Oi!
- (Applause)
- AUDIENCE MEMBER: Bravo.
- 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.
- (Applause)
- AUDIENCE MEMBER: Bravo.
- Bravo.
- Bravo, bravo.
- (Applause)
- LEONARD MATLOVICH: We want to meet each and every one of you.
- BRUCE VOELLER: Now, somebody who you all
- know, who's been held over at the ballroom
- here in New York, 'til August 3rd, Judith Cohen.
- Give her a warm welcome, Judith Cohen.
- (Applause)
- JUDITH COHEN: Is it on?
- AUDIENCE: Yes.
- JUDITH COHEN: 'Cause you're all on, I know that.
- (Laughter)
- You're wonderful.
- The song I'm going to sing, it's for everybody here.
- You see, no matter what we are, if we're gay,
- if we're straight, if we're tall, if we're short,
- if we're black, white, green, or purple,
- we all got ourselves to come home to.
- AUDIENCE MEMBER: Right on.
- JUDITH COHEN: And if we can live with that,
- and we can deal with that, we can do anything.
- (Applause)
- (Music - "Home to Myself)
- (Singing) I wake up and I see the light
- of the day shining on me.
- I make my own time, it is mine to spend.
- I say to myself, I'm my own best friend.
- It's not so bad all alone, I'm coming home to myself again.
- Now, now I understand whatever I feel is whatever I am.
- I am watching my life and how I have grown,
- and I'm looking around me at all the friends I've known.
- Yeah.
- You see, it's not so bad all alone,
- I'm coming home, home to myself again.
- It is not so bad to get lost in your tears,
- or to laugh, or to cry, for all those years gone by.
- Oh, my.
- Now, now, somehow I know, I've come a long way.
- I've got a long way to go.
- But something inside, it is making me strong.
- And in all those bad times I've been through
- and you've been through, we get along.
- Yeah.
- Because it's not so bad all alone.
- I'm coming home, home to myself again.
- It is not so bad to get lost in your tears,
- or to laugh, or to cry, for all those years gone by.
- Now, now, now, now, now, now.
- Now I understand whatever I feel is whatever I am.
- I am watching my life and how I have grown.
- And I'm looking around me, at all the friends
- I have known, yeah.
- You see it's not so bad all alone.
- I'm coming home to myself, to myself, I'm coming home.
- (Applause)
- AUDIENCE MEMBER: Bravo.
- (Applause)
- JUDITH COHEN: Yeah, yeah.
- Oh, OK.
- This is a brand new song.
- And I think this is just the place to sing it.
- AUDIENCE MEMBER: I can't hear you!
- JUDITH COHEN: I said this is a brand new song,
- did you hear me?
- AUDIENCE MEMBER: I can hear you, honey.
- JUDITH COHEN: Oh, honey, I can hear you, too.
- And I love it, I love it.
- Thank you.
- OK.
- (Music - "I Don't Break Easily")
- I took my chances, thinking something might be saved.
- Growing tired of broken promises,
- and all the dreams we made.
- And I wanted to be more than just a friend.
- Not knowing I would hurt so in the end.
- So I swore I would never call your phone again.
- Took time to see through all the glitter that you made.
- Oh, I was blinded by your fire light, I swept myself away.
- And I guess I couldn't bring myself
- to see how you had taken all the very best of me.
- So I am leaving while there's something left of me.
- Yeah, yeah.
- (Thunder) (Applause)
- But just like a child, I keep running,
- I'm running back for more.
- You know, I thought I knew the answer.
- Hey, I've been hurt before.
- But one more time around, it won't break me.
- No, no, no.
- You will never see that side of me.
- I don't break easily.
- I told my service pick up all my calls.
- And I've taken down our photographs
- that lined the bedroom walls.
- And the outside door no longer has your name.
- And your clothes are gone, and the welcome mat's been changed.
- Hey, but the key is still there, I left the door unchained.
- Just like a child, I keep running.
- I'm running back for more.
- You know, I thought I knew the answer.
- I've been hurt before, no.
- One more time around, it won't break me.
- No, no, no.
- You will never see that side of me.
- I don't break easily.
- I won't break easily.
- And either will you, I know you won't.
- (Applause)
- BRUCE VOELLER: It's starting to thunder and lightning,
- and do not run under the trees.
- Remember a couple weeks ago, a couple people were struck?
- Do not run under the trees for shelter.
- The next group I'm bringing on to you--
- (Applause)
- AUDIENCE MEMBER: Let's stay together.
- BRUCE VOELLER: --is the group that was received the best here
- last year.
- (Cheering)
- They have an RCA album out.
- They've been heard on many radio stations and club dates
- throughout the state.
- Two weeks ago they played the State House
- 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.
- (Applause)
- AUDIENCE MEMBER: Brandy.
- AUDIENCE MEMBER: Brandy.
- THE DEADLY NIGHTSHADE: Well, I sure hope it doesn't rain.
- I want everybody to think, Sun.
- Let's put up a lot of energy, and all the rain will go away.
- (Music - "Keep On The Sunny Side")
- (Applause)
- (Singing) Come on.
- Well, there's a dark and a troubled side of life.
- There's a bright and sunny side too.
- But if we meet with the darkness and strife, the sunny side
- we also may view.
- Keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side,
- keep on the sunny side of life.
- It will help you every day, it will brighten all the way,
- if you keep on the sunny side of life.
- The storm and it's fury broke today.
- Crushing hopes that we cherish so dear.
- Clouds and storms will in time pass away,
- the Sun again will shine bright and clear.
- Keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side,
- keep on the sunny side of life.
- It will help you everyday, it will brighten all the way,
- if you keep on the sunny side on life.
- (Cheering)
- Let us greet with a song of hope every day,
- though the moments be cloudy or fair.
- Let us trust in our savior always,
- to keep us, every one in her care.
- Keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side,
- keep on the sunny side of life.
- It will help you every day, it will brighten all the way,
- when you keep on the sunny side of life.
- (Cheering)
- Keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side,
- keep on the sunny side of life.
- It will help you everyday, it will brighten all the way,
- if you keep on the sunny side of life.
- (Cheering)
- On July 4th, Independence Day.
- (Cheering)
- It's called "High Flying Woman."
- (Cheering)
- (Music - "High Flying Woman")
- Did you ever think that you lived in a cage?
- Did you ever think that you lived in a cage?
- Well they call you a trick, 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.
- Blowing where the thinking is free.
- Only you can decide, take yourself for a ride.
- You're a free flying woman.
- A hard 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 you their fair game.
- And you still don't think that you are up a tree.
- Have you heard, have you heard?
- There's a migration happening, blowing
- where the thinking is free.
- Only you can decide, take yourself for a ride.
- You're a free flying woman.
- A hard 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'll tell you a lie, chicks got wings,
- but they don't fly.
- And you won't have to stay out on the ground.
- Have you heard, have you heard?
- There's a migration happening.
- Blowing where the thinking is free.
- Only you can decide, take yourself for a ride.
- You're a free flying woman, a high flying woman.
- You're a free flying woman.
- A high flying woman.
- (Cheering) (Applause)
- Thank you.
- (Music - "Little Darlin' Pal of Mine")
- Oh little darlin', oh how I love you.
- How I love you, no one can tell.
- Now in my heart, dear, there'll be no other.
- Little darlin', how I love you.
- (Cheering)
- (Applause)
- Oh little darlin', oh how I love you.
- How I love you, no one can tell.
- Now in my heart, dear, there'll be no other.
- Little darlin', how I love you.
- (Cheering)
- (Thunder)
- (Cheering)