astro🍪

𝕿𝖍𝖗𝖔𝖜 𝖒𝖊 𝖙𝖔 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖔𝖑𝖛𝖊𝖘

𝕻𝖚𝖓𝖎𝖘𝖍 𝖒𝖊 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖞𝖔𝖚𝖗 𝖘𝖎𝖓𝖘

𝕭𝖚𝖗𝖉𝖊𝖓 𝖒𝖊 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝖞𝖔𝖚𝖗 𝖌𝖚𝖎𝖑𝖙

𝕾𝖔 𝖎𝖙 𝖜𝖎𝖑𝖑 𝖊𝖆𝖙 𝖒𝖊 𝖎𝖓𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖆𝖉

𝕿𝖍𝖗𝖔𝖜 𝖒𝖊 𝖙𝖔 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖔𝖑𝖛𝖊𝖘

𝕾𝖆𝖈𝖗𝖎𝖋𝖎𝖈𝖎𝖆𝖑 𝖑𝖆𝖒𝖇

𝕴𝖙 𝖜𝖔𝖓'𝖙 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖐 𝖑𝖎𝖐𝖊 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖐

𝖄𝖔𝖚 𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝖜𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖋𝖊𝖆𝖗 𝖎𝖓 𝖒𝖊.

♬ Banshee — You are what you fear in me

This game is something VERY special for me.

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.

leapfish

squiddo duo no 3