Gays object to Herb Caen's language

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KQED News report from April 4th 1975 featuring an interview with a gay spokesman, who is objecting to what he refers to as San Francisco Chronicle's Herb Caen's "publicly libelling gays as a group." He states that: "In his column … he [Caen] feels perfectly OK about calling gays 'queers, fruits, dykes, fags and homos'. We don't think that's acceptable." He goes on to place this complaint in the context of how it may negatively influence politicians when deciding on whether to approve the political bill AB33, relating to gay employment discrimination.

Originally aired on
KQED
Date aired
4/4/1975
Recording medium
16mm b&w co-magnetic sound film
1:26
Rights for this video belong to
NCPB/KQED
Type of material
archival news film
Identifier
KQN 2239
Primary content
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