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:
“Jack and Jill
Went up the hill,
To fetch a pail of water;
Jack fell down,
And broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after.”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. Jack and Jill (l. 1–6)
“For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.”
—Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)