I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN YOU PETER HUJAR or your PICTURES

I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN YOU PETER HUJAR or your PICTURES

Many years ago Peter Hujar was my lover ... he is just now coming into public honor with a traveling MAJOR MUSEUM show organized by the Morgan Museum more than twenty years after his death from AIDS I remember asking him in the earliest days of after the STONEWALL REBELLION .if he would take a photo for a campaign the COME OUT cell of Gay Liberation Front . The COME OUT cell wanted to do a recruitment poster in a day when all most all lesbian and gay men were closeted and hidden in bars and secret cruising areas across the world. He agreed, For or a month we announced at the GLF weekly general meeting that anyone who wanted to be in this photo to come to a street in what is now known as SOHO. (sad that one person in the photo who disappeared for almost 20 years emerged and because of his lifestyle at the time could not remember where it took place published a confabulation and personal fantasy of where it took place. He was wrong,. As the person who organized the shoot with Peter, you would have thought he would have asked ... he did not!) Now that that has been said >|: NOTE why is it all white people despite the four people of color who showed up and at the last moment were afraid of going public about being gay and lesbian (The James Baldwin dual oppression dilemma). History must be told truthfully and not as a fantasy to be politically correct.
Peter died of AIDs in 1989

let me share a few photos I love of Peters... and as life would have it ..whe we broke up and feelings were raw I took almost every photo he had taken . of me. Now I wish I had
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Peter as he was when I lived with him. Handsome . One of Warhol's 10 most beautiful men fi

A very young John Kelly dancer 

Charles Ludlam making up for Camille

Lola Pat Camille *Theater of Rediculous 1973

I remember Paul Morrisey whispering in Candy's ear . "taks more hormones Candy and you will be more beautiful. Dead fro cancer she was still beautiful. There is a lesson for today herre.

From his first book 1964

Ethyl Eichelberger in costume 

Ethyl Eichelberger out of costume

 Ethyl in a pose

John and Gary

Iggy Pop 1969 

Iggy Pop 1977

John Ashbury

Diana Vreeland 1975

Tomata du Plenty who once saved my life in Seattle 

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A young Fran 

Jackie Curtis 1970

Greer had sexual reassignment surgery at 15. Greer was not intersex,  His mother's request. Greer never fully recovered from it ..his art in many ways tells that story.

a young John Kelly

my favorite couple  Jo;hn and Gary 

George Harris /Hibiscus and Angel Jack

History Lesson: MEMORIES OF THE REVOLUTION the truth about Yippies and Zippies and Dana Beal

MEMORIES OF THE REVOLUTION: found a transcript of an long interview I did with author Michael Gross for a book he was doing that when published was called "MY GENERATION" ,he profiled about 8 people ,,, you would be amazed who we were .. and are today.. anyway .. this is an uncorrected transcript .. but it begins to clears up I think a controversy regarding Dana Beal the differences between yippies and zippies and . sets the stage for a revision of Tom Forcade in popular culture,

Jim Fouratt (Michael Gross) - (Tape 5):

FOURATT:  ...really the Zippies.  You know, the Zippies had formed, the Yippies sort of was over... The Zippies had formed, and Dana Beal... Abbie sort of supported the Zippies... Although he had been so critical of them, he still supported them in their mobilization for the Democratic Convention.  I'm pretty sure it was the Democratic Convention; it was in Miami Beach.

MG: Correct.

FOURATT:  I'll never forget going to an evening Zippie event outdoors in that park in Miami.  That's when Miami had all those old Jewish people, South Beach, who were wonderful.  They all had fixed incomes, and they really...you know, they were the '30s people grown old.  So they were really sympathetic.  And I watched what I would consider a mind(?)-washing experiment going on, led by Dana Beal, giving acid to all these young people, and then taking them through classic brainwashing steps.  To me, it was fascism.  I'd seen the Hippie counterculture now devolve into a Fascist political movement.  It was very chilling to me.

MG: I never found it... To me, Dana Beal and the Zippies were desperate, irrelevant, hold on to the past, and that was the Convention where Abbie was sort of stumbling around lost, too, because he was a leader, but there was no movement any more.

FOURATT:  Right.  That's why he left to join forces with Dana for that period of time.  It was a rite of passage for me, because that was not my vision.  That was not what I saw in that park.  Being there actually for the Convention was correct, but taking young people and using drugs was no different from what the government did.

MG: When you're saying "brainwashing," you mean...

FOURATT:  You can brainwash people with drugs.  You take them through certain steps.  Those steps were being used...

MG: What point were they trying to get across?  Trying to make them into anti-government zombies?

FOURATT:  Yes.  Well, I don't want to use those words, but...

MG: Use your own.

FOURATT:  They wanted to politicize these kids, who already were political because they were there, but for their own agenda, which was disruptive and nihilistic, as far as I'm concerned.

                           [PAUSE]

MG: Something happens to you in Miami.  you realize...

And here is a letter to the NYC newspaper called the  VILLAGER re Dana Beal:

"To The Editor:

Re “Yippie thinks he’s solved .... (news article, Oct. 14):

In a front-page story in last week’s Villager, the writer describes Dana Beal as a Yippie. Mr. Beal was never active in the Yippies when they were in existence in the late ’60’s and early ’70’s. He, in fact, was the founder of the Zippies, which rose in opposition to the Yippies.

The Zippies were best known as the group that held a mass deprogramming public ritual during the Democratic Convention in 1972 in Miami. 

I did observe the distribution of LSD to a large group of mostly young people in Flamingo Park and than the almost ritualistic “deprogramming” lesson taught from the stage by a Zippie leader. To my eye it was not dissimilar to the U.S. Army’s experimental use of LSD in the late ’50’s and early ’60’s.

Dana Beal has publicly identified himself as a Yippie for a number of years. I have spoken to him about his misappropriation of Yippie history for his own use. Mr. Beal, who was a close ally of Tom Forcade, the founder of High Times and a well-known pot dealer in the ’70’s until his suicide, is best know as a marijuana activist and has in recent years championed the medical use of marijuana. He also has championed the use of an African root to cure heroin addiction.

Pease identify Mr. Beal properly. The Yippie legacy is rich, as is the Zippie legacy. Don’t confuse them.
Jim Fouratt
Fouratt is a co-founder of the Yippies

GAYS AGAINST GUNS protest TOM PRICE , Secretary of Health and Human Services at Federal Plaza

On Friday, September 22, 2017,  GAYS AGAINST GUNS demonstrated against TOM PRICE, Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services and his ogun violence policies. Know as an NRA Puppet, PRICE is also a homophobe, against same-sex civil marriage and has been cutting funds for mental health services.

On the steps of the FEDERAL PLAZA NYC at GAYS AGAINST GUNS demo  The PRICE IS the WRONG  against TOM PRICE, Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services, NRA Puppet and homophobe  9-22-17

I was one of the four HUMAN BEINGS, white-shrouded figures who stand silent holding signs identifying GUN VIOLENCE victims.

GAG was founded right after the Pulse gay nightclub massacre. It is open to anyone of any sexual orientation and self-named identity  regardless of age or color or class are welcome to GAYS AGINST GUNS and its fight against GUN VIOLENCE and responsible gun control 

Human Beings stand as the spirits of those killed by GUN VIOLENCE as a die-in takes place of the steps of the FEDERAL PLAZA NYC at GAYS AGAINST GUNS  The PRICE IS the WRONG  demo against TOM PRICE, Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services, NRA Puppet and homophobe 

Legendary Activists Rollerrena and Brent Earl Nickles join GAYS AGIST GUNS demo  against TOM PRICE and tell younger activist what they have learned in years of activism

Edith Windsor Memorial Service at Temple Emanuel NYC 9/15/17 plus Edie in her own voice tell what Supreme Court means Court v

Please join in the memorial service for Edith Windsor.  Edie changed US history. Her win at the Supreme Court gave same-sex couples the right to choose same-sex civil marriage as well as being treated for all benefits that previously were only available to opposite-sex couples .

If you watch you will learn about her remarka=ble life prior to the Supreme Court win. I treasure my conversations with her .. and they always ended in a hig,

click here for a live stream of the memorial service 

https://venue.streamspot.com/video/d204bfd75b

Watch here Edie explain what her victory Supreme Court victor actually meant 

Village Voice reunion ...So Many Memories .. Don McNeill, Jill Johnson, Arthur Bell, Howard Smith, Voice Censorship demo

Nice to catch up with Lynn Holtz and she filled me in on why Karen Durban (Voice editor) was not there, I told her of recently having a face book conversation with John Wilcox who lives Ouija California. He was one of the founders of the Voice. Sorry I did not see Musto or Richard Goldstein or John Parles or Joe Levy or RJ Smith there ..were they present? I was telling John Leland about Don McNeill

who I think would have been the voice of his generation if he had not drowned on LSD while in a swimming hole upstate.Don was 22 and immersed himself in the late 60's world of hippies, Yippies, Be Ins, the Motherfuckers, draft card burnings and the Jade Companions and reported them vividly and accurately in the pages of the Voice.
I had a flashback to when Howard Smith called me and said "Jim, the Voice is throwing away its Gerstner printing press and if you want it I will tell you when it will be put on the Street," I answered "YES." Got a group of kids to wheel it over from the Voice's Christopher Street office to my loft at 26 Bond street. With it we printed the Communication Company /NYC' missives and distributed them freely locally. A combination of culture (first published Diane DePrima's extraordinary Revolutionary Letters and political stories about police harassment and news about the Vietnam war in an attempt to wake up the hippies who Tim Leary had convinced to drop out and get high. In the late 60's, pre cell phones and social media, it was Howard Smith writing in Scenes (then the most read regular feature in the Voice after Jules ' cartoons about my organizing projects like the Be In etc and Bob Fass on WBAI that were the key to the Communication Company's organizing success. It also was what got Abbie Hoffman to come knocking on my door. We woke up a lot of hippies, and they joined the Anti-War movement with flowers in their hair. All of these memories because fresh again in my mind being in the room with all of the people who made the Village Voice matter each week. From the editorial side to the production side to the sales and promotion side. I told Jeff Weinstein about how the first demonstration of the Gay Liberation Front right after it formed the 3rd night of the Stonewall Rebellion was out side the Voice offices on Christopher Street.

We had tried to place an ad for a dance we were organizing at Alternate U on 14th street for gay men and lesbians as an alternative to meeting in bars.


The woman head of advertising refused to take our ad because we used the word "gay" . Imagine!


And then trying to explain who Jill Johnson was to a younger person who had never heard of her or her writing ... Or knew that Arthur Bell, a Voice critic was a founding member of the Gay Activist Alliance








Here are Jill Johnson and Arthur Bell at the 1971 Gay Freedom March in NYC









Ah, the Voice Reunion was a night to remember!