Greenwich Village Gazette

Jack Nichols, Writer and gay rights pioneerJack Nichols
       
1938-2005

Writer, editor and a pioneering member of the gay rights movement in the US, who helped to found chapters of the legendary Mattachine Society, an early support group for gays, in Florida and Washington, DC, in the early and mid 1960s, who helped to plan some of the nation’s first gay and lesbian civil rights demonstrations, including a protest outside Philadelphia’s Independence Hall on July 4, 1965, and who was among the first gay activists to challenge the American Psychiatric Association’s position that homosexuality was a mental illness, died of cancer in Cocoa Beach, Florida after a 20-year battle with the disease on May 2, 2005. Jack contributed to The Gazette until illness overtook him. We have maintained his work in Archive as he was a pioneer in the Gay Rights Movement and his writings will be forever important to scholars and the young and old alike.
 

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Do Jerry Falwell & Pat Robertson Speak for God?
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The unvarnished truth about George W. Bush’s secret plan to insure that U.S. taxpayers support employment discrimination against gays and lesbians
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David Brock, a former Republican zealot who admitted in 1998 that his writings had allowed exaggerations about Bill Clinton’s behavior in Arkansas has authored a new book titled Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative.
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Two top-selling books, Alan M. Dershowitz’s Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000 and Vincent Bugliosi’s The Betrayal of America tell about the U. S. Supreme Court's decision assuring that George W. Bush would win the election.
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Tampa, Florida protesters carrying anti-Bush signs were deprived of their First Amendment rights by local police
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It seems I’ve always been a student of the psychology of conversion. Early on I noticed how grotesque and fanciful beliefs were proliferating hither and yon. With this early awareness I quickly waxed skeptical in all matters pertaining to the gods.
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It seems I’ve always been a student of the psychology of conversion. Early on I noticed how grotesque and fanciful beliefs were proliferating hither and yon. With this early awareness I quickly waxed skeptical in all matters pertaining to the gods.
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Oral Majority chair Bob Kunst sat in the Tampa Public Library Tuesday writing a report about his 127th protest demonstration at a site where George W. Bush had appeared...
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Louise Hay's books, camp meetings and top-heavy missionary positioning in the nationwide AIDS community once touched thoughtful onlookers as...a needed phenomenon prior to the availability of life-prolonging drugs.
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Gay Pioneers is an extraordinary evocation—with actual footage--of the gay movement’s revolutionary mid-1960s public picketing demonstrations...
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Thirty-nine pharmaceutical companies trying to maintain the level of their huge profits, gave up a three-year South African court battle in April.... They’d hoped to prevent the AIDS-stricken nation from importing less expensive medicines.
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Filmmaker Glenn Holsten’s Gay Pioneers...gives effective testimony to a little-known fact about the activist origins of U.S. gay and lesbian history...
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Barbara Gittings was the first true lesbian and gay activist. She joined the fledgling movement in 1958 and, with the  assistance of the great love of her life, Kay Tobin Lahusen, she emerged as one of its most articulate representatives.
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In this interview we will go underground into the very mouth of evil. We will learn what makes a live Homo-sexual's clock tick and what led him to choose this lifestyle...
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Andrew Sullivan, neo-conservative author, openly gay practicing Roman Catholic and unconscious collaborator with anti-gay bigots...spoke on ABC-TV’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.
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DeMille, we’re ready for our close-ups," laughed the Oral Majority’s chair, Bob Kunst as over a thousand limousines disembarked at the Oscars site that the LAPD had assigned to Kunst and to thirty others waving "Bush Stole the Election" banners...
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