Green Thursday, radio program, June 24, 1973, source recording
- MORRIS KIGHT: because I don't want to be a murderer.
- (Applause)
- I don't want to work at the National Institute for Mental
- Health because I don't want to treat dissidents and gays as
- if they were sick.
- I want to make a world in which we say,
- no more can you do that.
- The mental health industry must get off our backs.
- The Church must reform itself.
- The nuclear family must give way.
- All of this society must give us room, room, room.
- And you have taken it for yourselves.
- And thus, as long as there is a breath of life
- left in Barbara Gittings and me, any one of you,
- we will not allow it.
- So, let's do what Barbara says.
- Let's practice and exercise in love.
- Touch, feel, talk to somebody, kiss somebody, caress somebody,
- enfold somebody into your love.
- Pass the enormous amount of electric energy
- that you have in you to someone else.
- Pass it, pass it, share it.
- Don't give it away.
- Don't give it away to strangers.
- Give it to your own people.
- Give it to gay people.
- That energy should be passing through us all of us
- collectively, all over this land.
- We're moving.
- We're marching.
- We're changing.
- Brothers and sisters, I bring you nothing in the world
- but total mad love.
- (Applause)
- SPEAKER: Thank you, Morris.
- We love you.
- (pause in recording)
- SPEAKER: This is Pete Fisher coming up next.
- (Music playing)
- PETE FISHER: (Singing) Out of the closet, everyone.
- The revolution has begun.
- The times are changing and it's rearranging.
- Out of the closet, everyone.
- 2,000 years without the Sun.
- The age of freedom has begun.
- We are alive now, and love can survive now.
- Out of the closet, everyone.
- Don't be afraid.
- Love will make you strong.
- Don't be afraid.
- Love goes on, and on, and on, and on.
- We've lived in fear for far too long.
- They told us that our love was wrong.
- Open your heart now.
- It's time to start, now.
- Out of the closet, everyone.
- Don't be afraid.
- Love will make you strong.
- Don't be afraid.
- Love goes on, and on, and on, and on.
- Out of the closet, everyone.
- The revolution has begun.
- You can be free, now.
- Just follow me, now.
- Out of the closet, everyone.
- Yeah.
- You can be free, now.
- Just follow me, now.
- Out of the closet, everyone.
- (Applause)
- SPEAKER: Thank you, Pete.
- (pause in recording)
- SPEAKER: Lucy Wile.
- (Music playing)
- LUCY WILE: Can you hear it?
- CROWD: Yes!
- LUCY WILE: (Singing) Last Tuesday morning,
- I went shopping on Bleecker Street.
- Stopped in for something to eat, an old friend I
- happened to meet.
- She wore a button on her blazer that said,
- "Open your head to me."
- Since I met you and dropped out of the movement,
- no pamphlets get read.
- I'm loving instead.
- And my sisters and brothers are all
- marching so we all can be free politically.
- And, Sunday morning, Marsha said that Sylvie's in jail.
- Nobody put up the bail.
- And somebody censors her mail.
- And, if we don't start marching on Christopher soon,
- we'll dig our own tombs.
- You'll see.
- Since I met you and dropped out of the movement,
- no pamphlets get read.
- I'm loving instead.
- And my sisters and brothers couldn't do it alone.
- Do they condone you and me?
- Just take my hand and we will march,
- two abreast, get killed with the rest.
- Or we're not at best.
- And, if by chance we don't get rushed by the mob,
- I'll still lose my job.
- You'll see.
- Since I met you and dropped out of the movement,
- no pamphlets get read.
- I'm loving instead.
- And my sisters and brothers couldn't do it alone.
- Now, there's nobody home to see.
- It's hard to fathom that in this century.
- Our people could be robbed of dignity.
- But when you notice we're still cringing in bars,
- afraid of our stars, dizzy still.
- Since I met you and dropped out of the movement,
- no pamphlets get read.
- I'm loving instead.
- And my sisters and brothers are all
- marching so we all can be free politically.
- (Applause)
- (pause in recording)
- SPEAKER: Jane Diventa.
- (Applause)
- JANE DIVENTA: Are you ready?
- My mother is.
- Have you been to East Park lately?
- We don't play ball anymore, right?
- What could I tell you?
- Oh, look at all these people and they're still coming in.
- Beautiful.
- They're coming out?
- Calm yourself.
- Our next performer, I'm very proud to introduce you.
- She's been down to the Fire House
- at the Cabaret every other week.
- She is just gorgeous.
- You'll love her.
- She is so talented.
- My bust is gonna bust.
- Are you ready for that?
- Merrill Shepherd, let's hear it.
- (Applause)
- Come on, out there.
- I want to hear it.
- (Applause)
- MERRILL SHEPHERD: Thank you very much.
- I'd like to do a love song first and then a liberation song.
- This song is called "Stars."
- And I'd like, no.
- I'd like to dedicate this song to everybody at the Fire House,
- especially, and to all of you.
- (Singing) Stood out in the rain.
- Let it soak me down, before I called you.
- I called you.
- Didn't see me there, hidden by the rain beneath your window.
- I saw you.
- Looking at your face before the mirror on the wall.
- Dreaming that the looking glass was me.
- Catching your fondest gazes, living
- through your fickle phases.
- I love you.
- And it's getting easier each day to weep about you.
- Harder every night to sleep without you.
- How many years must I be driven by this dream of love with you?
- Spend my dimes on phones, trying just to talk.
- But you don't answer.
- You let it ring.
- Spending my nights alone, catching falling stars
- to give to you, love, they're just for you.
- For stars fall every time a lover has to face the truth.
- And far too many stars have fell on me.
- And as they trail the skies and burn their paths upon my eyes,
- I cry.
- It's getting easier each day to weep about you.
- Harder every night to sleep without you.
- How many years must I be driven by this dream of love,
- driven by this dream of love, driven by this dream of love
- with you?
- With you?
- With you?