Part of crowd at second Gay-In, the first sponsored by LA-GLF, April 5, 1970

legal aid group) were born as a result, and The Advocate grew to a major Gay publication.

Pat's longest journey to date took him to that very Gay city, Rio de Janiero for an exciting and longer than usual film that many hoped would be the first in a series of Gay travelogues.

He got around quite a bit within narrower range for his Mondo Rocco program, which included Homosexuals on the March, a lengthy documentary recording the mounting Gay demonstrations here in late 1969. To some

Ron Dilly and Alan Dark at PATCH II in Wilmington, for THE END

viewers, Pat's "TV Emcee" ebullience seemed at odds with the militant style of the Hollywood marches led by the Rev. Troy Perry, but these remain the first film accounts of America's homophile movement, the only record of colorful, historic events ignored by regular news media.

He got an unintended news scoop at the Meatmarket, first male nude GoGo bar, where he went to make a film

to be shown in court in defense of dancers and others arrested there. While Pat was interviewing patrons, and the original male nude go-go dancer, Ted Philpot, his assistant cameraman by accident filmed a vice arrest.

In June, 1969, the month of the New York Christopher Street riots, Dick Winters (a deacon of Metropolitan

Three young men of Brazil, in first Gay travelogue: MARCO OF RIO. The scene that followed, tame by today's standards, couldn't be shown until a year later.

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