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Revision as of 22:14, 30 January 2010
The Cast - Major players identified. Actual historical figures on left.
| Jeff Graubart, GLF activist, YSA member, Coordinator NGMC, Narrator | Dave Rosen |
| William Stanley, GLF activist, YSA member, NGMC member | Winston Stanfield III |
| Roger Walther, President GLF and NGMC | Roger Hamilton |
| Wayne Sunday, GAA Secretary, YSA member, NGMC supporter | Zach Doubleday |
| John O'Brien, GAA member, SWP member, NGMC supporter | Austin O'Rourke |
| Garret Gray, Leader, Illinois Gays for Legislative Action | Larry Gulian |
| All other LGBT activists mentioned, some with minor speaking roles | Real Names Used |
Keeping my Demons at Bay
Having won some points with the national and regional offices of the Young Socialist Alliance and Socialist Workers Party for my strong showing (by revolutionary socialist standards) in the Urbana Mayoral race, and by this time completely obsessed with the fight for gay liberation as the only way to keep away my demons, I decided to call in my marker with the YSA and push them to provide the infrastructure for a gay and lesbian march on Washington.
Not only were LGBT people suspicious, at best, of revolutionary socialists and vice versa, but I was not well-known on a national level as either a gay activst or a revolutionary socialist. However, sometimes audacity and naivete can make for good history.
Dramatization of Early Discussion between Bill Stanley and Jeff Graubart on Washington march[1]
The IGLA Conference in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois
Urbana failed to pass the gay rights bill as I had assumed and instead threw the bill into the Committee on Legislation. At this point, the Washington march was just beer talk at Bill Stanley's, although, on one drunken occasion, he called a gay YSA comrade in New York who supported the idea.
Bill Stanley and I both supported a march on the Illinois State Capitol, Springfield, and we planned on bringing that up at a statewide meeting of a group based out of Chicago called, Illinois Gays for Legislative Action, although Bill was certain they would defeat the proposal without the Urbana victory to give creedence to our style of direct action politics.
Dramatization of Bloomington-Normal IGLA Conference[2] I am uncertain how much of this dramatization is fiction and how much is fact. IGLA did endorse the march on Springfield and I did mention the false assertion that the SWP/YSA were considering building a gay and lesbian march on Washington.
