Forgotten court case shows how a California schoolteacher was persecuted for being gay Forty hours after he was arrested for being gay, Donald Odorizzi, a California schoolteacher, made a decision he would come to regret. On June 10, 1964, Odorizzi picked up his phone and started dialing numbers at random. These weren’t prank calls. In a time when homosexuality was considered a psychiatric illness, Odorizzi was just a distraught man, fresh off a breakup, looking for someone to talk to. What happened when the wrong person picked up the phone kicked off a long-forgotten court case that, as the Supreme Court turns rightward five years after the legalization of same-sex marriage, is a ... Continue reading... https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/12/29/donald-odorizzi-gay-rights/ | Find in Internet Archives | [google]Forgotten court case shows how a California schoolteacher was persecuted for being gay[/google]
Forgotten court case shows how a California schoolteacher was persecuted for being gay On June 10, 1964, Odorizzi picked up his phone and started dialing numbers at random. These weren’t prank calls. In a time when homosexuality was considered a psychiatric illness, Odorizzi was just a distraught man, fresh off a breakup, looking for someone to talk to. What happened when the wrong person picked up the phone kicked off a long-forgotten court case that, as the Supreme Court turns rightward five years after the legalization of same-sex marriage, is a window into a dark time for the LGBTQ community. They were a gay, interracial couple in an age of relentless bigotry. The ... Continue reading... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/f...?c=10654320709832488692%2C7840040449682147769 | Find in Internet Archives | [google]Forgotten court case shows how a California schoolteacher was persecuted for being gay[/google]
