Gay hallway
Gay Activists Alliance Actions at Urban area Hall
History
The Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), formed in December 1969, held its first picket on Parade 5, 1970, at City Hall. Over 30 GAA members attempted to access the building to meet with Mayor John V. Lindsay over his defeat to take a public stance against police harassment, and in support of ending discrimination, against the gay collective. The group was confronted by police on foot and on horseback and forced onto Broadway, where they picketed for two hours. This action resulted in a rendezvous with a delegate of the Mayor.
GAA strongly advocated for anti-discrimination legislation. On June 2, 1970, City Council Minority Leader Eldon R. Clingan announced that he would launch a bill to extend the city’s fair employment practices law to prohibit discrimination in employment based on sexual orientation or taste. He was linked by Councilmen Carter Burden, Leonard Scholnick, and Theodore S. Weiss, and the bill became famous as Intro 475 (Clingan-Burden Bill, or Clingan-Burden-Scholnick-Weiss Bill). It was broadened to prohibit discrimination in housing, public accommodation, or employment based on sexu
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Connie Barriot Gay was one of country’s leading entrepreneurs of the 1950s, playing a seminal role in transforming what was still called “hillbilly” music into a modern entertainment industry in just one decade from his base in the Washington, D.C.–Virginia area.
Gay was one of the first to coin the term “country music,” in place of the less flattering “hillbilly music.”
Gay got his start in radio broadcasting on the Farm Security Administration’s National Farm and Home Hour. Later, at WARL, Gay helped popularize country music in Washington, D.C., where he nurtured a vibrant, profitable melody scene beginning in 1946 through the 1950s. His activities spanned TV and radio, as well as live stage shows in the blockbuster mode, using the all-purpose moniker Town & Country. His early solid of talent included the Wheeler Brothers, Clyde Moody and the Radio Ranchmen with guitarist Billy Grammer, Grandpa and Ramona Jones, Hank Penny, and a then-unknown Jimmy Dean.
Gay took over the management of Dean, whom he developed into a TV luminary and host of the regionally popular Town & Region Time show and the short-lived CBS effort
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Sherman Township
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