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When we marched in, we had all of these people on both sides of the stadium clapping for us, we all cried, we all cried. may i welcome you, athletes and spectators from all over the world, to the first gay games? tom was the founder of the gay games, an athlete in the 1968 mexico olympic games. a lot of the men and women in the olympics at the time were in the closet, they did not want to come out. if they did, they got harassed in the locker rooms and what tom wanted was for everyone to be part...

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Our final witness is sarah wedell lewin steen, one of the founders of the first gay games, launched in california in 1982, the event attracted athletes from all over the world, but it was not plain sailing, and a row with united states olympic committee nearly scuppered the whole thing. when we marched in, we had all of these people on both sides of the stadium clapping for us, we all cried, we all cried. may i welcome you, athletes and spectators from all over the world, to the first gay games....

The plaintiffs lawyer, you dont expect to get anything remotely like this. this is sort of like a -- these cases are like a kaleidoscope. what you have is sometimes you turn it one way and the reporters look a little careless and they look like theyre ignoring something. the other way, you can see how they might have believed this story to be true. and whats really remarkable is that this comes in the context of the most different. standard, the most standard that you could possibly apply in a l...

Libel case, which is the new york times against -- which governs the libel claims on manners of public concern against public figures, and so that requires -- its a bit of a misnomer, because people talk about it being a standard of actual malice, rico uses that word. but malice is not required. and then you also hear the term reckless disregard. mint recklessness is not enough, its not enough that the reporter blew past the facts. what you have to show is, and theres a case from 1968 called and...

And will celebrate 100 years of the flying scotsman. the stamps will show the steam train in locations around the uk, including the yorkshire dales, londons victoria station, and northumberland. it will mark the end of an era, with this familiar version of the queens silhouette appearing on special stamps since 1968. they are beautiful stamps. gorgeous looking. fantastic. lovely pictures there. i think carol has got some lovely new pictures of the northern lights because it was another stunning ...

When i finished law school in 1968, i had changed. i changed because america was going through a transformation to create inclusion, equality, freedom, justice for all. but i dont think rudy changed very much during those three years. and when i look back on it, that was a missed opportunity. - this guy is somebody whos an opportunist and whos always been very able and willing to adjust to whatevers coming, you know, politically, and to sign on whats next. - he was an independent until reagan go...

Was rudolph giuliani. all: freedom! freedom! - somewhere, i read of the freedom of speech. - in our last few months of law school, martin luther king, april 4, 1968... - somewhere i read... - assassinated. - that the greatness of america is the right to protest for rights. - it is possible he has-- - robert kennedy in june of 68--killed. - senator kennedy has been shot. [shouting, gunfire] - early in 1968, the north vietnamese launched the tet offensive. major cities in the south were attacked. ...

The origins of the Brooklyn-born altar boy who leaned conservative, even as the civil rights era was flourishing all around him. Giulianis stark view of good...

Air space is going to get even more contested between the iranian supplied drones and now possibly the chinese supplied drones, both on the russian side. it could make for some very difficult moments in the air battle over ukraine at this point. >> and, colonel, let me show you and our viewers a time lapse of the past year of russias true presence in ukraine. russias forces in red, ukraines claimed counter offenses in yellow. its striking how most of this ground war has been contained to eastern...