Gay rights–United States

  • Orange Tuesday Reaction / produced by the Fruit Punch Collective

    Fruit Punch produced this program the day after Dade County voters denied gay people their civil rights. Featured are news feeds from around the country, national reaction to the Dade County vote denying gay people civil rights. Contains actuality, Paul Harvey, Anita Bryant, listener call-ins, coverage of a spontaneous demonstration in San Francisco, and Bryant’s…

  • New directions from the gay left (Part 2 of 2)

    Excerpts from the “Faggots and Class Struggle” Conference held Labor Day weekend, 1976, plus interviews with participants. A dialectical approach to personal politics including feminism in the movement and the particular oppression suffered by “feminine identified” men. Produced by the Fruit Punch Collective of KPFA Berkeley. |Sensitive language.

  • The homosexual in our society (Part 1 of 2)

    This recording from 1958 – the earliest known radio recording to overtly discuss homosexuality – features Public Affairs Director of KPFA Elsa Knight Thompson interviewing Hal Call, the editor of the Mattachine Society’s newsletter, the Mattachine Review; Dr. Blanche Baker, a psychologist noted for her then-rarely-shared belief that homosexuality was not an abnormality nor an…

  • The homosexual in our society (Part 2 of 2)

    In the second part of this ground-breaking radio panel discussion on homosexuals, Elsa Knight Thompson moderates a panel discussion of the following speakers: Dr. Karl Bowman, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of California, and former Head of the Langley Porter Clinic; Dr. Frank A. Beach, Jr., Professor of Psychology, University of California; Morris Lowenthal, San…

  • Therapy, solidarity work, Silverstein memorial

    Dialectical Therapy: New Directions From the Gay Left. Kevin Burke interviews two members of a recently-formed, progressive, gay men’s therapy collective. Topics covered include power of the therapist, traditional versus nontraditional forms of therapy, and the place of money in therapy. Also a short interview with Yanaka Mountainfire of NAPA. (38:00) — Solidarity work: A…

  • Cops and robbers II: Transsexuals and the police

    Three transsexuals discuss police problems and their work as members of C.O.G., Conversion our Goal, with Police Community Relations Officer Elliot Blackstone of the San Francisco Police Department. Herb Kutchins of the San Francisco Bail Project moderates.

  • Moscone-Milk newscast

    KPFA news broadcast from 27 November, 1978, which covered the assassination of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, as well as a story on the Jonestown Massacre, the defeat of Japanese Prime Minister Fukuta, and the Supreme Court ruling on journalists withholding information. Louis Freedberg, announcer. This broadcast won the 1979 award…

  • The lesbian underground: on being a lesbian before the women’s liberation movement

    Sabrina Sojourner hosts a discussion on the lesbian underground, or what it was like to be a lesbian before the feminist and gay liberation movement. Guests include Del Martin, author and Commissioner of the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women; Phyllis Lyon, Commissioner for the Human Rights Commission in San Francisco; and Pat…

  • Gay freedom day 1978

    Program produced by Philip Maldari. This sound portrait of the parade held in San Francisco for the 8th Gay Freedom Day in 1978 includes an excerpt from Harvey Milk talking to KPFK, parade-goers interviewed about Anita Bryant and the Briggs Initiative. This recording also includes highlights of the parade, interviews with passersby and parade participants,…

  • Ben Hooks interview / produced by Fruit Punch Collective.

    Benjamin Hooks, head of the NAACP and first African-American FCC commissioner, is interviewed by Bill Hartman of the Fruit Punch Collective just prior to his leaving the FCC. Mr. Hooks talks about his views on minorities as they are portrayed in the media, with particular emphasis on gay people. Produced by Fruit Punch Collective (Gay…