Jad Abumrad
speaker
6,321 appearances
21 recordings
5 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 11 Sep
Jad Abumrad’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Many of us were immigrants from somewhere.
This is Ken Maley.
And gay activist who at the age of 19 came to San Francisco from Kansas.
It was a place where you could be out, but to the people you left behind, you could still be in.
And so for Oliver, you know, he came from Michigan.
From a working class family.
He had a lot of brothers and sisters.
I think he was one of eight children.
And so after the war, when he got to San Francisco, he actually started going by the name Billy.
Billy, Billy Sipple.
And so Oliver lived, like a lot of gay people at the time, this double life.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And do we know that this is the reason why Sebald came to San Francisco?
Or was there a different reason?
It may have just been because Harvey Milk was there.
The Harvey Milk.
You know, famous gay activist, San Francisco politician.
He was friends with Harvey Milk.
Turns out Oliver had actually met Harvey a decade earlier in New York.
And I just want to mention this because I think it's so cool.
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