Advocate
Incensed at the growing visibility of gay men in Los Angeles, the former king of television (Jack LaLanne) announced in 1979 that he planned to march down a one-mile stretch of Sunset Boulevard with a 350-pound barbell on his shoulders in order to protest the “damn queers and homos and little boy prostitutes” who has “taken over Hollywood.” – Towleroad
I distinctly remember hearing this on the news when I was a teenager, around the time of Anita Bryant’s anti-gay rants. I was disappointed.
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