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Finding Aid of the Milwaukee Journal Stations Records > Subject Guide
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
1971 | 1972 | 1973 |
1975 | 1976 | 1977
Month/Day/Year: October 1, 1971
Segment Number: 10
Segment Description: Daily footage. Donna Burkettt and Manonia Evans, an African-American lesbian couple, apply for a marriage license at the Office of the Milwaukee County Clerk.
Notes: The film is color and does not have sound. The
film has been transferred to videotape; see videotape #53.
Month/Day/Year: October 12, 1971
Segment Number: 5
Segment Description: Daily footage. Donna Burkett and Manonia Evans, an African-American lesbian couple, discuss their efforts to obtain a marriage license and announce their marriage ceremony scheduled for Christmas Day 1971.
Notes: The film is color and does have sound. The
film has been transferred to videotape; see videotape #53.
Month/Day/Year: April 8, 1972
Segment Number: 1 and 3
Segment Description: Daily footage. Frank Kameny, president of the Mattachine Society and a founder of the American gay liberation movement, addresses the Midwest Homophile Conference held in Milwaukee at the Marc Plaza Hotel.
Notes: The film is color. Segment 1 does have sound; segment 3 does not.
Month/Day/Year: September 24-28, 1973
Segment Description: Special Report. "Some Call Them Gay." A five-part series examining the gay and lesbian community in Milwaukee. Part one provides an overview of employment discrimination faced by gay men and lesbians; part two focuses on entertainment and recreation, such as dance clubs and bars, drag shows, and cruising; part three describes local efforts to organize for legal reform and oppose police entrapment; part four focuses on the "double life" of homosexuals of this period; and part five describes how gay men and lesbians are organizing for their civil rights.
Notes: The film is color and does have sound. The
film has been transferred to videotape; see videotape #63.
Month/Day/Year: December 2, 1975
Segment Number: 1, 2 and 3
Segment Description: Daily footage. Miriam Ben-Shalom--president of the Gay Peoples Union and a self-identified lesbian--graduates from drill instructors' school and becomes one of the first two female drill instructors in the 84th Army Reserves Training Division. Commanding officers deny previous knowledge of Ben-Shalom's sexual orientation. She refutes their denial and promises to fight any attempt to discharge her from the service.
Notes: The film is color and does have sound. The film has been transferred to videotape; see videotape #57.
Month/Day/Year: January 27, 1976
Segment Number: 1 and 2
Segment Description: Daily footage. Miriam Ben-Shalom speaks at a press conference. A Reserve official discusses discharge action.
Notes: The film is color and does have sound. The film has been transferred to videotape; see videotape #58.
Month/Day/Year: January 31, 1976
Segment Number: 1
Segment Description: Daily footage. Report on allegations of police extortion of gay bar owners. The River Queen, located at 402 N. Water Street, is featured.
Notes: The film is color and does have sound.
Month/Day/Year: September 18, 1976
Segment Number: 8
Segment Description: Daily footage. Interview with Miriam Ben-Shalom.
Notes: The film is color and does have sound.
Month/Day/Year: May 18, 1977
Segment Number: 3 and 4
Segment Description: Daily footage. Interview with Patrick Batt, chair of the Gay Peoples Union board of directors, who was fired from his job as personnel director at the Marion Heights Nursing Home because he is gay. Batt later filed a federal lawsuit against the nursing home. The case became a rallying cause for the Gay Peoples Union and the Milwaukee Human Rights Alliance. The case was ultimately unsuccessful, but constituted an important challenge to the law allowing employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
Notes: The film is color and does have sound.
Month/Day/Year: May 20, 1977
Segment Number: 11
Segment Description: Daily footage. The Milwaukee Committee on Human Rights hosts an event in "support of the struggle for gay rights in Miami and Milwaukee" at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Student Union. The group was formed to counter Anita Bryant's anti-gay campaign.
Notes: The film is color and does have sound.
Month/Day/Year: June 21, 1977
Segment Number: 4 and 5
Segment Description: Daily footage. The Gay Peoples Union (GPU) establishes Milwaukee's first gay and lesbian community center in a rented flat at N. 1568 Farwell Avenue. Patrick Batts, a GPU leader, describes the importance of his federal lawsuit against the Marion Heights Nursing Home (see daily footage, May 18, segments 3 and 4) and the local impact of Anita Bryant's anti-gay campaign.
Notes: The film is color and does have sound.
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