I Have Never Seen Something So True

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This made me feel really happy ❤️

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.

have u ever considered that he’s just a little guy

LIKE TO CHARGE REBLOG TO CAST LET'S GET THIS FUCKER EXPLODEDED

do you think a 22 yr old is too young for a 24 yr old?

i mainly fuck divorced fathers so i wouldn't know too much about that.. but yeah i think they should both be put to death

Ahhh okay thank you for explaining!!

hello 👋

is it ok to hate certain pronouns being used for you, but having none that you really, genuinely feel good with? I use they/them but it doesn't really give me that euphoria ppl talk about so I just wanted to ask

whatever feelings you have about pronouns are always okay.

it's probably more common than people talk about too. this is actually how i felt for a long time about my pronouns in german. i definitely didn't want german he/him or she/her, but no german neopronouns or it/its gave me the "right" feeling. i ended up kinda flip-flopping around.

sometimes "this'll do" is the best option.

(there's also always the possibility of not using pronouns or using multiple sets or making up your own neopronouns.)

asexual pluto ftw - the weirdo next to me

what are you doing why were you posting so much 4 hours ago..

*rotates you 90°* get rotated. bitch.

pls pls pls if anybody has anything like this for bsl pls share i’ve meant to learn it for so long and i am learning (using an actually p decent app called ‘bright bsl’) but learning from a variety of sources is always best especially since there can be more than one sign for a certain word!!

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again but it is absolutely an example of civilizational inadequacy that only deaf people know ASL

“oh we shouldn’t teach children this language, it will only come in handy if they [checks notes] ever have to talk in a situation where it’s noisy or they need to be quiet”