San Francisco may be more than 2,000 miles from St. Louis, but a new history project is revealing the many ties between the LGBTQ communities in California and Missouri.
It doesn t take long when delving into the Missouri Historical Society s new virtual Gateway to Pride exhibit it launched in late January to discover connections to the Golden State. One of the timeline entries notes how in spring 1988 the AIDS quilt, created by the San Francisco-based Names Project, was exhibited for the first time in St. Louis.
St Louis participants at the 1990 Gay Games in Vancouver, British Columbia wore this pin. Photo: Courtesy Missouri Historical Society
battle of the network stars dvd somebody sent me. oh, my god. let me see this. that was like the gay olympics for me. you know, that was my olympics. so i just love anything on tv. and i still do. i went and watched this be filmed. they were done at pepperdine. farrah fawcett, whole charlie s angels thing. you loved d farrah fawcett. what s not to love. you also love susan lucci. pint sized diva. how did you get the interview sr. you c ? i lied. i said, oh, it s going to run on the cover of the boston university newspaper. but i hadn t actually secured any i hadn t spoken to boston university s newspaper about it. i lied a lot as it turns out,
which overturned california s ban on gay marriage, a host of right-wing advocacy groups have come out attacking not just the ruling, but the judge personally because he is gay. let me remind that judge vaughn walker established his credentials as a conservative, even a libertarian jurist and he was nominated twice by george h.w. bush after democrats, including then congresswoman nancy pelosi, blocked his nomination by president reagan claiming that walker would be hostile to gays from the bench because as a lawyer, he had brought a suit against the gay olympics for copyright infringement, and he put a lien on the home of their leader while he was dying of aids. no, because george walker agreed with the arguments of lawyers, including president george w. bush s ted olson, governor general. his ruling citing over and over the decisions of anthony kennedy, also in support of gay rights, anti-gay religious groups are claiming von for those reasons was biassed in his ruling because he is ga
bill: what do you say, tamara, do you think it s going to be overturned, the vote is going to be overturned? remember, cases are about the evidence, okay? and this, the defense here, they only brought one witness and what did that witness say? the witness said that america would be a better place the day that we allowed same sex marriage. if the judge is only looking at the evidence they have no case. the other thing is that this is a gay judge who actually worked for the olympic committee against the gay olympics and won that case so it s very interesting to see make a prediction, tamara. my prediction is based on the clothing arguments, based on the evidence alone, the gay rights are going to win. that s to the supreme court. i ve got to run. a computer i ve got to hit or we disappear. when we come right back, two hot topics for the culture warriors.
that we allow same sex marriage. if the judge is only looking at the evidence, they have no case. the other thing is that this is a gay judge who actually worked for the olympics committee against the gay olympics and won that case. it s very interesting to see how he will rule as a gay man. bill: make a prediction. my prediction is based on the closing arguments, based on the evidence alone, the gay rights are going to win. the same sex marriage is going to win. bill: i have got to run, ladies. i have a computer i have to hit or we all disappear. two hot topics for the culture warriors, beauty contestant who is a