Homosexuality.

  • Quentin Crisp Memorial Recording 1908-1999 The Cd

    Quentin Crisp Memorail Recording 1908-1999 THE CD (59 min.) Quentin Crisp Memorial: Hosted by Phillip Ward, Executor to the Quentin Crisp Estate. March 3, 2000 memorial celebration at Cooper Union in New York City honoring Crisp. Speakers: Elaine Goycoolea, Denise Pratt-Renner, Francis Ramsey, Penny Arcade, Louis Coallaieni, Evan Thompson, Joan Thompson, Stephen Sorrentino, Tim Fountain,…

  • Gay Rights With The Reverend Mel White.

    Gay Rights With The Reverend Mel White. Includes 1958 panel discussion moderated by KPFA’s Elsa Knight Thompson which Pacifica historian Matthew Lasar says “…very likely constituted the first comprehensive gay rights radio documentary in U.S. broadcast history.”; 1968 WBAI interview with “Hustler”; 1977 KPFA’s Fruit Punch Collective broadcasts Orange Tuesday Reaction, the national reaction to…

  • The Lesbian Experience With Torie Osborn.

    The Lesbian Experience With Torie Osborn. An elderly woman describes what it was like to be a lesbian in the 1920’s. Lesbian feminist theorist Charlotte Bunch defines lesbian feminism and lesbian separatism in 1978. Founders of the Daughters of Bilitis discuss the lesbian sub-culture of the 1940’s and 1950’s. Pat Parker reads her poem dedicated…

  • Quentin Crisp Memorial Recording 1908-1999 Three Tape Boxed Set

    Quentin Crisp Memorail Recording 1908-1999 Set of Three Tapes: CASSETTE 1- (59 min.) Quentin Crisp Memorial: Hosted by Phillip Ward, Executor to the Quentin Crisp Estate. March 3, 2000 memorial celebration at Cooper Union in New York City honoring Crisp. Speakers: Elaine Goycoolea, Denise Pratt-Renner, Francis Ramsey, Penny Arcade, Louis Coallaieni, Evan Thompson, Joan Thompson,…

  • 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…

  • A man is many voices (Episode 7 of 29)

    This adaptation of Richard Hoag’s off-Broadway play deals with a man’s confrontation with his own homosexuality in an unusual and stylized fashion. Starring Chuck Ports as the man, with supporting parts played by David Clemens, Sheila Cohen, Raymond Cole, Thomas Crawley, Fred Dykeman, Richard Hoag, Stephanie Moss, JoAnn Schuman, Michael Talcott, and Juliette Whitman. Written…

  • The homosexual in our society: a panel discussion

    This recording from 1958 – the earliest known radio recording to overtly discuss homosexuality – features Elsa Knight Thompson, then the Public Affairs Director of KPFA, 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…