GAY MALE INTERVIEW ON TALK SHOW- CIRCA 1972

In 1972, gays answering blunt questions on television was new territory. RANDOLFE WICKER was the first homosexual to appear on television, full-faced & undisguised, in NYC on the Les Crane Show in 1965.
He then went to Chicago to be on the Kupcinent Show in the 1960s because there was no homosexual willing to appear on TV in Chicago.
randolfe used the first money he made in the hippie-oriented anti-war slogan-button business to buy the first portable Sony CV video system. Using that equipment he saved this one Pittsburgh appearance from the trash-bin of history. TV stations didn't save tapes of even nationally broadcast shows, so virtually none of the early appearances by LGBT activists even after Stonewall and into the 1970s have survived.
randolfe wicker says, "I consider this my best appearance as an early activist--taking on all callers. I always could talk..... Even the Hotline host made a joke about that."