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
Famous quotes containing the words jack and/or baker:
“This is the priest all shaven and shorn
That married the man all tattered and torn”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 37–38)
“A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life’s idea, Truth and Truth’s idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.”
—Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910)