2/6/2024 0 Comments Badpuppy gay men magazine![]() He pulled away from what he felt was the too-conservative New York Mattachine Society and founded The "powerful" Homosexual League of New York, a headline-grabbing phenomenon that, miraculously, had only one member, Randolfe Wicker. He'd appeared, after all, on real TV, under his legal name! Daring in those days, the "brash" Randy (according to top notch historian John D'Emilio's book-Sexual Politics/ Sexual Communities-published by Chicago University Press) shook up New York's gay establishment as early as 1958, and, in 1962 even more loquaciously when he became the first openly gay guy to go on radio and TV as such. To me (inspecting Wicker as carefully as he inspected me) and to a few other crusading admirers, he'd already attained a certain star status. We chirped hopefully if there seemed any chance, in fellow budding gay or lesbian crusaders, of real brain power and ability. The year was 1963 and we were all newly-charged pioneers-inspecting each other carefully, tweaking each other joyfully, and even hopefully. He and Kameny were arguing in a friendly way over the proposed color of a slogan button that would read, "Equality for Homosexuals." Wicker wanted it made in lavender while Kameny insisted on black and white. ![]() The first time I ever saw Randy was at Frank Kameny's place.
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