OVTV: (TIME-Warp) This Past Week in History; Hello Dolly Broadway debut! Rudyard Kipling dies! Kennedy's Famous Speech!

On this Day (Jan. 16) Operation Desert Storm begins; Space Shuttle Columbia final lift-off; Prohibition takes effect; Shah flees Iran; Hello Dolly Broadway debut.

(BEST of 2013) Top 5 Indie News/Culture Series!

After 2 years, Time Warp makes it to the Top!

In 2013, our Web TV News Series were still holding strong and got more views then ever. From

History to Film to Q-Issues, Relationships to Marriage hosted by top people in the LGBT Media.

The following are the top 5 News series based on page views: (Click the Links to see what episode was the most watched of the year)!

(TIME Warp) San Francisco Gay Pride in the 70's, A RETROSPECTIVE!

Writes Ron Williams of this clip chronicling Gay Pride parades in San Francisco from 1970-80:

"Charles Roseberry is an early gay documentary filmmaker in 8 mm and Super 8 mm work that was used in the opening sequence of old Castro Street in the 'Milk' film. At 83, Charles is still practicing his talents as an film editor and videographer. This film will stir up those old Disco memories and get your blood pumping."

(TIME Warp) When California had a Short-lived Marriage Victory, TWO Years ago this week!

A federal judge overturned California’s same-sex marriage ban on Aug 4, 2010 in a landmark case that could eventually land before the U.S. Supreme Court to decide if gays have a constitutional right to marry in America.

Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker made his ruling in a lawsuit filed by two gay couples who claimed the voter-approved ban violated their civil rights.

Supporters argued the ban was necessary to safeguard the traditional understanding of marriage and to encourage responsible childbearing.

California voters passed the ban as Proposition 8 in November 2008, five months after the state Supreme Court legalized gay marriage. 

However, on August 16, 2010, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit indefinitely extended the District Court's stay, stopping new same-sex marriages in the state of California pending appeal. It also scheduled an accelerated time table for hearing an appeal of Walker's ruling. 

On January 4, 2011, the appeals court ruled that Imperial County did not have standing to intervene in the suit. In the second, the court certified a question to the California Supreme Court as to whether non-governmental proponents of the amendment have standing to appeal.  

The California Supreme Court on February 16 unanimously agreed to address the Ninth Circuit's request.

On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision on the appeal in the case Hollingsworth v. Perry, ruling that proponents of initiatives such as Proposition 8 did not possess legal standing in their own right to defend the resulting law in federal court, either to the Supreme Court or (previously) to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Therefore the Supreme Court both dismissed the appeal and directed the Ninth Circuit to vacate (withdraw) its decision, which had upheld the district court ruling. The decision left the district court's 2010 ruling intact. On June 28, 2013, the Ninth Circuit lifted its stay of the district court's ruling, enabling Governor Jerry Brown to order same-sex marriages to resume.

(TIME WARP): AIDS, The plague years-1981-91!

June 1991

If you are of an older generation, and especially a gay man, you probably remember reading or hearing about a July 3, 1981, New York Times article reporting on a strange series of illnesses striking gay men in East Coast and West Coast urban areas. Just 12 years after the Stonewall riots in New York, the decade of love and liberation had come to a crashing end.


There were some signs of distress earlier than 1981. Doctors and nurses, especially those with many gay patients, began to notice obscure illnesses cropping up. Gay health groups did screenings for venereal diseases, which were spreading rapidly.

But it was the summer of 1981 when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ( MMWR, June 5 and July 3 ) first reported that a new disease might be in our midst. It could have been around for years, but was just at that time starting to exhibit itself.

Check here for FULL Story and Photos!

(TIME warp): Remembering first Organized Protest against AIDS in DC, 26 Years ago this week!

June 1, 1987: ACT UP joins other national activist groups in civil disobedience at the White House in Washington, DC. In a display of AIDS-phobia, the police wear rubber gloves while arresting protesters.

(TIME Warp) This Week in History: MA Marriage; Boy Scout, INC; Birth; Beatles; Death of Salesman; Dylan!

(Feb 4): World War II's Yalta Conference; O.J. Simpson found liable for the murders of his ex-wife and her friend; Patty Hearst kidnapped; the Massachusetts gay marriage ruling; aviator Charles Lindbergh born. (Feb. 6): President Ronald Reagan born; Hillary Clinton runs for the U.S. Senate; Britain's King George VI dies; baseball legend Babe Ruth and reggae superstar Bob Marley born. 

(Feb. 8): the funeral of Jordan's King Hussein; Premiere of 'The Birth of a Nation'; a South Carolina civil rights protest turns deadly; the Boy Scouts of America is incorporated; actor James Dean born. (Feb. 9): The Beatles appear on TV's 'Ed Sullivan'; Sen. Joseph McCarthy launches his anti-communist crusade; World War II's Battle of Guadalcanal ends; Soviet leader Yuri Andropov dies; author Alice Walker born. (Feb. 10) a Cold War prisoner exchange; boxer Mike Tyson convicted of rape; Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' opens on Broadway; Bob Dylan's 'The Times They Are a Changin'' released.

(TIME-WARP) When 2 Golden Couples make it Legal!

Jane and Pete-e                         (Mirabella)

by MK Scott 

In a weekend that celebrates a Milestone of Legal Marriage in the state of Washington. I look back at what has been an 8 year plus journey for many same sex couples. I have known one couple, Jane and Pete-e for over 12 years, through their involvement in the Seattle Men's Chorus. In 2001, we stood by them as they told Pete-e's story of being a Breast Cancer survivor as one of many couples sharing their stories as part the Sing for the Cure concert. It was that concert as well as Pete-e and Jane's involvement that led to the introduction of the Seattle Women's Chorus, now in its 10th Season. 

In 2005, Jane and Pete-e talked more about their life and relationship in Drew Emery's acclaimed documentary,'Inlaws and Outlaws'. They also had a commitment ceremony. 

(TIME-Warp) Patrick Murphy Celebrates One Year Anniversary Of DADT's Repeal!

Former Congressman Patrick Murphy, the moderate Democrat instrumental in Don't Ask, Don't Tell's repeal, reflected on the one year anniversary of the discriminatory law's demise this week at The Daily Beast.

"On September 20th, we mark the first anniversary of the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell," Murphy writes. "We recognize the thousands of troops who were unfairly targeted by the policy and thank them for their service to our nation. We take a moment to celebrate the fact that our military has made historic progress in the march toward full equality for all men and women."

(TIME-WARP) The Chickens and the Bulls; The rise and incredible fall of a vicious GAY extortion ring!

A John lights a cigarette for a young male prostitute in August, 1965 iin Times Square.

by William McGowan

On a sleepy Sunday morning in late July 1965, Detective 3^rd Grade James McDonnell received a call in the upstairs squad room of midtown Manhattan’s 17^th Precinct. There was a man at the Western Union office in Grand Central Station who might be impersonating a police detective, he was told. The man was in the company of a 14-year-old runaway and had contacted the boy’s father in Texas to wire plane fare so the son could fly home. The father had grown suspicious when the man had asked for $150—twice the needed amount. McDonnell quickly drove the 10 blocks to Grand Central, parking his unmarked black sedan on Lexington Avenue and hurrying down to the terminal’s lower level. Criminal impersonation of a police officer was an E felony—a “good collar,” as cops like to say, and if the perp had a gun, even better. There’d also been chatter on the detective grapevine about a number of recent cases of phony policemen, so McDonnell was eager to see what was up.

(TIME-WARP) Happy 45th Anniversary Loving v. Virginia!

Long before the fight for Gay marriage was the fight for  interracial Marriage. The similarities are astonishing.

In June of 1958, Richard Loving married Mildred Jeter in Washington D.C. This was no ordinary marriage because he was white and she was black. In that time, laws in their home state of Virginia forbade interracial marriage, thus the couple was forced to travel to another state to wed.

(TIME Warp) 45 Years after Mike Wallace's 'The Homosexuals' Broke Ground!

Mike Wallace, late of CBS's 60 Minutes, died last night at age 93. He perished in an assisted care facility near New Canaan, CT. 

Over 45 Years ago, Wallace Hosted Television's First glimpse of Homosexuality,  Given the era in which it was produced, it's admirably open-minded: gay folk, at least male ones, are allowed to speak their pieces freely and at length. (I was especially interested in the weird hand-wringing about the possibility of a "gay mafia" ruling pop art and fashion, which seems rather incidental to the segment's central question: Is it desirable to legislate against private sexual behavior? On this question, at least, it seems Wallace wished to alight gently on the side of history.)Within 2 Years, Gay Liberation Happened.

(TIME Warp) San Francisco AIDS Foundation Marks 30 Years!

The San Francisco AIDS Foundation is posting a 30-day series of historic images in honor of our 30th year which they're commemorating throughout April. Also on Facebook.

The first image, above: "MYSTERIOUS OUTBREAK, 1982. In the Castro, men gather around one of the many public flier posted around the community raising awareness about the mysterious disease outbreak plaguing gay men in San Francisco. Today we continue to confront HIV in populations most impacted by the disease through education, advocacy, and free direct local services."

(TIME Warp) All about Whitney!

In Honor of Whitney, we honor her memory with the clips from the early scenes of her career, includes her acting debut on 'Silver Spoons' in 1985.

(TIMEwarp): What happened to Gays after WWII?

With all the time focused on Japan and the End of World War II this past week, in this edition of Time warp, we examine the brief LGBT History from end of the War to the most horrific moment in Gay History, the death of Harvey Milk.