GAY RIGHTS PARADE

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Animation of the rainbow flag waving. This flag is a symbol of gay pride. This clip is loopable.

MICHAEL DUKAKIS CAMPAIGN

GAY PRIDE, GAY RIGHTS

U.S. War Department film showing devastation from atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War 2. Opening scene is darkness of predawn in Alamogordo, New Mexico, on 16, July, 1945, at 5:29:45 AM. Suddenly, a huge explosion lights up the sky. A fireball and mushroom shaped cloud form. Closer view of the explosion from another camera. Following the initial explosion, the ensuing sound is a continuous roar. Another view is shown, from a third camera location. It highlights the boiling fire and smoke of the explosion. These scenes document the first successful test of a nuclear weapon, code named "Trinity". Change of scene shows glimpse of the Manhattan Project B Reactor site at Hanford, Washington, as viewed from a car driving past. Closeup of the facility, from right up against a boundary fence. Glimpses of other Manhattan Project facilities in New Mexico, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and another view of the Hanford, Washington facility. Next, a rough topographical map of Japan is shown. Closeup of elevated railroad train traveling in Hiroshima, Japan. Imperial Japanese Army motorized vehicles are shown on parade, including fully tracked open personnel carriers with soldiers aboard and Type 94 Tankettes being driven by individual soldiers. Japanese infantry marching in full field gear including shouldered rifles with fixed bayonets. Closeup of a Japanese Army officer. Glimpse of Japanese support troops, such as quartermaster elements, in black uniforms. Japanese technicians in white lab coats at a wartime facility. Japanese Navy Warships being launched from Hiroshima ship yards. A lone B-29 bomber seen in flight over clouds. Its tail number, 42-63735 is clearly seen. It displays a large "05" on it upper tail. (This is not the "Enola Gay" whose tail number was 44-86292.) Closeup of one of the aircraft's engines with propeller turning. Glimpse upward from interior of the aircraft. Scene shifts to aerial photograph of Hiroshima with overlay depicting the bomb strike zone. Animated map showing explosion and precise point ot detonation above the junction of the Motoyasu and Ota Rivers. A view at the ground of destruction from the atomic explosion. An American soldier stands in the midst of the destruction. Slabs of heavy concrete are destroyed. View looking East from ground zero, past a burned tree trunk in the foreground, where the shells of several stronger buildings still stand amidst a sea of rubble. To the South, hardly anything is left standing. Looking West, everything is essentially leveled. Location: Hiroshima Japan. Date: 1946.

John B. McGay, inventor of the tubeless tire, displays his invention in Washington

West Hollywood Gay Pride Parade - 1996 - Gay, lesbian, homosexual, LGBT, rainbow flag, Gay Rights, Stonewall banner, gay marriage, celebration, floats

New York City Gay Rights Rally speaker on stage.

00:13:45 - Mattachine Society The Mattachine Society was New York's first homosexual rights group that campaigned for the rights of gay men and women to openly exist in society without fear of arrest or persecution . Inside the offices - poster on wall - Join the Navy"" vo talks about draft and being 4F and how that can affect future employment - may not be probing into if youare homosexual or not but will ask why you got the 4F if it was a physical issue. Mattachine Society head states what it is - ""the society is an organization dedicated to mutual understanding between the society and the homosexual in a society that rejects any form of sex outside the judeo christian normal code. Our primary goal is legal and social reform and basically reform of moral code and concept which includes sexuality as right or wrong. We are self help in regards to helping homosexuals understand the problems they face every day and to come to a better understanding of themselves and better able to stand talland not to be ashamed of themselves or guilty before they can expect society to do the same 00:15:08 - Homosexual acts between two consenting adults is illegal in all 50 states with one exception of Ilinois...which was adopted in 1960..the penal code has sometimes required up to 10 , 20, and up to life sentence - i believe there is still one state where you can get a life sentence...based on concept that homosxuality is so unnatural and so grievous that in medieval times it was associated with demon posession, 00:15:02 - we work through lobbyists in Albany and not Washington because most of your state code laws are state laws and not federal laws. These lobbysits are not employees of Mattachine Society but believe in our cause and therefore work with us. Many of them have to work secretively and on the sly because if it was known that they were backing a reform of this type they would be in serious trouble socially and perhaps even employment wise 00:16:30 Question re: corporations screening out homosexuals Answer - yes i know people who have not gotten employment because they have made the mistake of being honest becasue they made the statements that they were or had homosexual contact...asked in personal interviews not writing...no corporation would put in writing. 00:17:06 EXT gay bookstore - sign says Oscar Wilder Memorial Bookshop - store has homosexual related books and items - views inside showing posters for ACLU , Eugene McCarthy for President, and stacks of men's magazines with hunky male models on covers. bookshelves with various homosexual publications - The Gay Coloring Book, Homosexuality and creative genius, 00:17:47 - Theatre of the Absurd group (also known as Theater of the Ridiculous) drag queens perform The genre arose in what was then New York’s gritty downtown lofts, off-off-Broadway theatres, and unconventional performance spaces. This theater featured experimental theatre and introducing non-actors, drag queens, and fantastical stage constructions and costumes to its productions

Scenes from the 1976 Kiss-in sponsored by gay rights organization held on Yonge Street in Toronto. Pedestrians and shoppers leaving Hudsons Bay show a variety of reactions to the event.

OK GAY RIGHTS MARCH solemn protest march ;

William Sloane Coffin, Jr. Pushing his new book ?Once to Every Man? William Sloane Coffin, Jr. (June 1, 1924 ? April 12, 2006) was an American liberal Christian clergyman and long-time peace activist. He was ordained in the Presbyterian church and later received ministerial standing in the United Church of Christ. In his younger days he was an athlete, a talented pianist, a CIA agent, and later chaplain of Yale University, where the influence of Reinhold Niebuhr's social philosophy led him to become a leader in the civil-rights and peace movements of the 1960s and 1970s. He also was a member of the secret society Skull and Bones. He went on to serve as Senior Minister at the Riverside Church in New York City, and President of SANE/Freeze (now Peace Action), the nation's largest peace and justice group, and prominently opposed United States military intervention from the Vietnam War to the Iraq War. He was also an ardent supporter of gay rights.

CU GEORGE GAY LOOKS RIGHT INTO CAMERA

GAY RIGHTS BILL DOCUMENTS.

Gay rights activists pour out Russian vodka

New York City Gay Rights march in 1976, organized to protest the Democratic National Convestion. Gay rights marchers chanting,Christian protestors, and horse cop.

Members of the Toronto LGBTQ community gather in front of Hudsons Bay department store on Yonge Street for the 1976 Kiss-In, a response to the arrests of two gay activists for kissing in public.

Animation of the rainbow flag waving. This flag is a symbol of gay pride. This clip is loopable.

MA. Gay Rights Bill

Gay Rights

American Jubilee at the 1939 New York World's Fair