Jad Abumrad
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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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Well, apparently some people in the gay community during and after the lawsuit felt that he was trying to go back in the closet.
So they sort of turned their backs on him.
Surprisingly, he was friends with Harvey Milk till the end.
Like when Harvey Milk was assassinated—
Oliver Sipple went to his funeral and he did have one brother, George Sr., who stuck by him throughout.
But his parents did not and they never fully accepted the fact that he was gay and –
When his mom died, it was so bad that Oliver Sipple's father didn't let him go to the funeral.
And because he sort of – he had so few people I guess at the end and because there weren't –
You know, a lot of news articles about him and because a lot of people in the gay community from that time have died because of the AIDS crisis.
It was really hard to find out what happened to Oliver Sippel in those last five years of his life.
And the only way we could was because when we were talking to Daniel Lutzer, he mentioned this interview that he did with this guy named Wayne Friday.
He was a friend of Oliver's.
Wayne died last year, but Daniel still had the transcript of their conversation about Oliver Sipple's last days.
And so... We found an actor, the very gifted Gordon Pinsent, and we had him read it for us.
This story was reported by Latif Nasser and Tracy Hunt.
It was produced by Matt Kielty and Annie McKeown with Latif and Tracy.
Special thanks to Bruce T.H.
Burke, to Stacey Davis at the Gerald Ford Presidential Library, to the GLBT Historical Society, Stephanie Arias at the Huntington Library, James Crammond, who's Gordon Pinson's agent, and as long as we're on the subject of Gordon, the actor you heard just ending the piece, wow.
Wow, yeah.
Just wow.
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