Listen: Chicago, Denver Post, Letsie discussed on Nancy - #27: Oliver Sipple
"Anyway okay so here's the first page of the file as the lawsuit was against the chronicle the cases oliver w civil plaintiff versus the chronicle publishing company was against the la times the demoain register the chicago suntimes the denver post indianapolis star and the san antonio express letsie said this is the deposition of oliver w sipple let's see so one of the arguments that the lawyers for the newspapers were making is that all of her sexuality was not actually private lawyer were there any people that you knew in san francisco's end say september night to 75 who knew that you were homosexual sipple yes lawyer approximately how many people simple i have no idea where than ten yes more than fifty yes or than 100 yes there were people in new york who knew he was gay there were people in dallas who knew he was gave in a kind of the settle in the like in the hundreds did you tell anybody before september of nineteen 75 that you are homosexual if i were asked i am asking you i don't know what you were asking and they make the argument the newspaper's lawyers that hey this was already somewhat public a fact but his personal business was his personal busness i've never attempted to obtain publicity for the fact that i am gay or predominantly homosexual my sexual orientation it was a private citizen at me made my home approximately one thousand eight hundred miles away from home by parents and my family so that i could move cement freely in the community without the fact of my sexual orientation getting back to my parents and family."