William Way LGBT Community Center Digital Collections

Coombs, Joan; Piquardio, Alfred; Piquardio, Lucille; Piquardio, Steve; Schwamm, Chris; Selekman, Mayer; Wharton, Linda; Wolf, Sally; Wolf, Steven; Wylen, Bert

Bert Wylen reports on Operation Rescue for Pacifica News, broadcast on July 9, 1993. Wylen interviews Joan Coombs (Planned Parenthood) and Linda Wharton (Women’s Law Project), about increasing tension between patient escorts and counter demonstrators organized through Operation Rescue; Bert Wylen interviews Sally and Steven Wolf about their experiences parenting their gay son, Chris Schwamm, and his upcoming commitment ceremony with his partner, Steve Piquardio; Bert Wylen interviews Alfred and Lucille Piquardio about their experiences parenting their gay son, Steve, and his upcoming commitment ceremony with his partner, Chris Schwamm; Bert Wylen interviews Rabbi Mayer Selekman about his officiation of Chris Schwamm and Mike Piquardio’s partnership at their commitment ceremony; Field recording of a meeting with unidentified speakers discussing potential benefits for businesses supporting an unidentified gay rights cause; Excerpt of Bert Wylen interviews unidentified speakers about the potential benefits of domestic partnership legislation; Field recording of Rabbi Mayer Selekman marrying Chris Schwamm and Steve Piquardio at their commitment ceremony; Bert Wylen interviews Chris Schwamm and Steve Piquardio about their relationship.

1993-07-09; undated

01:04:47

digital audio tape

local: Ms. Coll. 8; https://digital.wilcoxarchives.org/islandora/object/islandora:1558

Gaydreams audio recordings

English

Philadelphia, PA

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