The Dog Page #4

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[Edwin Starr's "Easin' In"

playing]

TERRY:

STARR:
Easin' in

Slick as he can, mm-hmm

TERRY:

MAN:
Well, basically,

I relate emotionally to men.

I like men emotionally.

DIFFERENT MAN:

I'm totally gay.

TERRY:

Yep.

WOJTOWICZ:
When I joined

the movement, I met people.

I liked the people,

and we had sex,

and then, like, around '71,

I became more active.

I went to more meetings, OK,

because I would meet

a lot of people,

but they were more politically

oriented than sexually oriented.

RICK WANDEL:
The Gay Activists

Alliance, what we wanted to do

was to tell people

that ultimately,

the key to our getting

equal rights was to come out

so that everybody knew

they knew gay people.

MEN:
Justice! Justice! Justice!

WANDEL:
It was a political,

nonviolent,

militant organization.

"N"!

"N"!

Give me an "O"!

Ho"!

Give me a "W"!

RANDY WICKER:
I was actually

one of the very early members.

They used to have

a demonstration

once or twice a week...

Gay power!

Gay power!

WICKER:
and I was one

of the few people

that had a video camera,

and I caught all

this fabulous stuff.

Hi. I'm Randy Wicker.

Today we're talking

to Father Robert Clement

of the Church

of the Beloved Disciple.

Father Clement,

what type of church

is the Church

of the Beloved Disciple?

Like all churches,

it's basically, first,

a church for everyone,

but our congregation

is primarily gay...

I'd say 90%, approximately...

and we exist for the needs

of the gay community,

and I am gay myself.

I see.

WICKER, VOICE-OVER: At the time

in the gay activist community,

gay marriage wasn't even

on the agenda,

but the city clerk of New York

came out and said,

"You know, there's this guy

in this gay church,

"and he's performing blessings

of holy unions or something,

"but weddings are what they are,

and if he doesn't stop it,

we're going to take action

against him."

Well, at this point,

on the one hand,

gay activists didn't want

to do anything

with the issue of gay marriage

because they would argue

among themselves about that,

but they couldn't sit back

and have a city official

attacking the gay community

and threatening a gay church.

MARC RUBIN:
I think

that we should never

understand their point of view.

Any point of view

which is opposed to gay rights

is a wrong point of view

categorically

by fiat and word of God.

MAN:
Ooh, ooh, ooh.

WICKER, VOICE-OVER:

So they decided,

"Well, we'll go into

the Wedding Bureau,

"and we'll take

a big wedding cake.

"We'll take over

the Wedding Bureau.

"We'll throw

an engagement party.

We'll have made our statement,"

and that's exactly

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