Jack Baker (activist)
Jack Baker (born Richard John Baker, 1942) saw himself as a gay activist in the state of Minnesota (U.S.A.), beginning in mid 1969 until 1980. He and Michael McConnell (born James Michael McConnell, 1942) demanded from government a license to marry. Within a Modern Gay Movement, they accomplished their goal of lawful marriage, then returned to a very private life.
Read more about Jack Baker (activist): Student Activism, Marriage License Granted in Blue Earth County
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“I hope you ain’t going to blow up my boat, Mr. Johnson. Like my wife, she’s not much, but she’s all I have.”
—Martin Berkeley. Jack Arnold. Lucas (Nestor Paiva)
“When the excessively shy force themselves to be forward, they are frequently surprisingly unsubtle and overdirect and even rude: they have entered an extreme region beyond their normal personality, an area of social crime where gradations don’t count; unavailable to them are the instincts and taboos that booming extroverts, who know the territory of self-advancement far better, can rely on.”
—Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)