© Frank H. Jump
Walter Grutchfield: 14th St – 42nd St
March, 2008:
David Paterson – A Welcomed Change for LGBTQ Community – Paterson Strong Supporter of Same-sex Marriage
NY Daily News/Flickr
In a posting at G-A-Y (Good As You) on “Eliot Mess”
“What might have been,” indeed.
**And now we look forward to the future. Below is a statement on incoming governor David Paterson that the Empire State Pride Agenda‘s Alan Van Capelle has just issued:
“David Paterson’s leadership is a story of commitment to civil liberties and human rights. He believes in equality and justice for all New Yorkers and has demonstrated this time and time again—in both words and actions.
He has been a strong and consistent friend of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community ever since he was elected to public office in 1985. He worked hard as a State Senator to help pass hate crimes legislation in 2000 and, in his first weeks as Senate Minority Leader, worked to make sure that there were enough Democratic votes to pass the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act (SONDA) in 2002.
We are excited to begin working with him as Governor.”
Another False Memory – West 107th Street & Broadway
© Frank H. Jump
| Broadway & West 107th Street Upper West Side, Manhattan – taken December, 2002 |
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False Memories II – Olympia Theatre. |
This False Memory has an interesting story. I had heard about this sign from my friend Linda Bahoritsch who lives around the block from it. It is the winter of 2002. I’m standing on West 107th and Broadway, peering down an alleyway trying to figure out how to get the best photograph of this fading sign through a chain link fence. There was snow on the ground and a huge dumpster was blocking the view. Nearby I saw a police barricade which I quickly dismantled from its horse and started shoving under the fence to move the dumpster away from my nostalgic subject. Vincenzo waited patiently in the car. When the dumpster was pushed far enough away from my line of focus, I wedged the blue wooden plank under one of the casters so it wouldn’t roll back into view.
At this point, a Puerto Rican building superintendent from a nearby six story walkup shouted out to me, “Great thing what you are doing. That’s history!” He obviously figured out my plan. Almost immediately afterwards, an erudite Upper-West Side Jewish woman in her late fifties exclaimed:
“It’s a fake. They painted it a couple of years ago for that movie about Orson Welles- what was his name again? You know him- Susan Sarandon’s husband? Oh yeah- Tom Robbins. No Tim! Yeah. What the hell was the name of that movie again? The Hand That Rocks?… no, no, THE CRADLE WILL ROCK! That’s it. Yeah. It’s a fake. But you may as well take a picture of it anyway. They’re tearing the building down next week.”
Hence- the false memory.
