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be christ-like this christmas. gather a crowd and inspire them to anarchism. beat a politician with a whip. help out your local sex workers. preach equality.

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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.

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Art byBayilik Paneli IG: @shamekhbluwi Instagram: @artwoonz

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one of my friends is a very pregnant dog and like 3 times a day i say to her “hello! you are full of several other smaller dogs!” and she wags her entire body at me like “it’s true!!! i contain multitudes”

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"Faggot"

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all i have to say on breastfeeding is that the fact that it is even slightly controversial is just one of the many symptoms of a lecherous, sex-obsessed society. it’s an insult to the dignity of women.

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When the Nazi concentration camps were liberated by the Allies, it was a time of great jubilation for the tens of thousands of people incarcerated in them. But an often forgotten fact of this time is that prisoners who happened to be wearing the pink triangle (the Nazis’ way of marking and identifying homosexuals) were forced to serve out the rest of their sentence. This was due to a part of German law simply known as “Paragraph 175” which criminalized homosexuality. The law wasn’t repealed until 1969.

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“If you think hitting your kids is fine then you in fact did not turn out ‘great’.”

When people get pregnant, they will give up smoking, give up alcohol, give up coffee and soda, give up fondue and raw cheese, give up cold cuts and sushi, all because they have heard somewhere, from someone, that these things can be bad for the baby. They don’t know the research, haven’t looked at the studies, can’t talk about sample sizes and control groups. But their dedication to their future child’s safety is so strong, their caution is so overpowering, that they give up these things just in case. 

So it baffles me when those same people will insist on spanking their kids. 

Even when they are shown the research.

 Regardless of what the experts in the field say. 

No matter who says it. 

Or how it is said. 

People are so invested in this ability to hit their kids without judgement or consequence, that it absolutely confounds me. 

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I need a print of this in my house.

i don’t even need to know the context of this drawing

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X

Thanks, Cap.

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the opening riff to mr brightside could literally raise me from the dead

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it doesn’t matter how good you’re doing, those sad nights will creep up on you from time to time and that’s ok. doesn’t mean all your progress is gone

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Throwback late 90s/early 2000s mix took requests from twitter, instagram and here to make this mix thank u to everyone who sent a suggestion, tried to add to the concept with radio clips and sounds, hope u like this!! 

TRACKLIST

Amerie - Why Dont We Fall In Love Dmx - How’s It Going Down Big Pun - Its So Hard Ashanti - Always On Time Mariah Carey - Heartbreaker LL Cool J - Doin’ It Dru Hill - In My Bed (So So Def Remix) Tamia - So Into You Mase - What You Want (Feat. Total) Blaque - As If Kelis - Caught out there Diddy/Mase - Lookin’ at Me Ray J - Formal Invite (Feat. Pharrell) Nivea - Don’t Mess With My Man Musiq - Halfcrazy The Roots - You Got Me (Feat. Erykah Badu) Craig David - 7 Days Aaliyah - If Your Girl Only Knew Aaliyah - Hot Like Fire (Remix) Total - Trippin (Feat Missy Elliott) Janet Jackson - Someone To Call My Lover Snoop Dogg - Beautiful (Feat. Pharrell & Charlie Wilson) Snoop Dogg - Let’s Get Blown (ft Pharrell & Keyshia Cole) Koffee - Afterparty Mya - My Love is Like Woah Joe - I Wanna Know Keyshia Cole - Love Mariah Carey - Breakdown (Feat. Krayzie Bone & Wish Bone) Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz - Lovers and Friends (feat. Usher & Ludacris) 702 - I Still Love You Usher Ft Brandy - Who Is She To You (Part 2) Lil Flip ft. Lea Sunshine - Sunshine Slum Village - Selfish ft. Kanye West & John Legend Q-Tip & Raphael Saadiq - Get Involved Mos Def - Ms. Fat Booty