CASDLA_000030_A_PRSV

Interview with Doug Moore, part 1, 2007

 

2007-04-27

 

Interviewer: Nobiletti, Frank

(Sound starts at about 14 seconds.) From The California Audiovisual Preservation Project summary: "Doug Moore has dedicated his life to the LGBT community, as well as preserving the history of Pride and LGBT history in general. He was an organizer of San Diego Pride from its earliest years. Doug served Pride in almost every capacity and has been a leader not only locally, but across the country and internationally. Doug has compiled one of the largest collections of Pride materials in the world--including posters, buttons, t-shirts, programs, banners, photos, periodicals, and more, which he has given to Lambda Archives. He was also instrumental in the founding of Lambda Archives of San Diego (then the Lesbian and Gay Historical Society of San Diego)."

Doug Moore; Frank Nobiletti; Oral histories; Interviews; National City (California); Brigit Wilson; Nicole Murray Ramirez; HIV/AIDS; Briggs Initiative; California Proposition 6

 

 

Rights are owned by Lambda Archives of San Diego (LASD)

 

 

English

 

Audiotape

00:46:49 minutes

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This is a summary, not a transcript:
00:15 Interviewer asks about how "you and she don't always agree?"
00:19 Doug gives his opinion of this person
1:32 Interviewer asks about The Animate Women [?]and who they were
1:55 Doug responds that he thinks it is Paula Fredricks and some other names he can't remember
2:05 Doug says that if he wants to talk about solidarity then he should talk to Brigit (probably Wilson) about it, not him
2:29 Doug and Bridgette picketed Carl's Jr. together for the Briggs Initiative (California Proposition 6 in 1978
2:55 They discuss how great Brigit is
4:20 Interviewer asks about Nicole Murray Ramirez.
4:35 Doug was hesitant to talk about Nicole but talked a little about him
6:00 There was a debate at the school with a right-winger and Nicole was really belligerent
6:50 Doug does not personally like Nicole and says that he has done a lot of damage to the community
8:50 Interviewer asks what kind of damage has Nicole done
8:55 Doug says that Nicole has used the newspaper to attack people and was a manipulative person
10:30 There are things that happened early on that happened in the community that Doug doesn't think is Nicole's fault--like boycotts.
10:35 They discuss a 1976 boycott of pride that was blamed on Nicole
11:00 They had to picket bars to let people know pride was still happening
11:30 The bars would not let them come in with the flyers based on information that was supposedly spread by Nicole
12:30 Nicole has been vocal within the community and people criticized him for it
13:20 Nicole has mellowed quite a bit in his later years--partly because his health has deteriorated
14:45 Nicole has been in the community for 35 years
15:30 Doug asked Nicole to help with archives and he never helped
16:45 Interviewer switches subjects and asks about the community in the 1980s
17:05 Doug responded AIDS was very rampant and most of his friends died because of the disease
17:50 First friend Doug lost to AIDS was a man named Frank Galloway
18:28 Another friend's name was Copen
18:58 Interviewer asks about his personal life in the 1980s
19:05 Doug responds that a lot of sex happened during that time
19:38 His first lover was during that time and his name was Randy
22:00 Randy moved to Washington DC but then was supposed to come back--but he hung himself
24:00 He had a trunk full of nude photos of himself and Doug said not to look in them, but his family looked in it anyway but then after destroyed it
25:40 He committed suicide because his father was in a mental institute so it could have been genetic
27:45 His second lover was Ray the schoolteacher
28:50 After Ray was Robin--who was lovers with Copen first but they split up after Robin met Doug
30:00 Robin is still working with the Navy at this time and is a therapist
32:19 For 17 years Doug was with David
34:30 They worked together at Scripps
34:40 They broke up 3 years ago
35:35 Doug was also with Jonathan while with David
36:18 Doug met Jonathan at Pride
37:30 Doug is still with Jonathan and they are still friends with David, his ex
38:30 David couldn't handle Jonathan at the time and split up
39:20 Doug moved with Jonathan into a small apartment but it didn't work out so Jonathan moved out
40:30 Jonathan only has 5% hearing and reads lips
43:00 Interviewer says that they should continue more next time
43:20 Doug mentions how they didn't talk about National City
43:37 Doug's family used to own National City, he shares the story of how that happened
45:00 His family named it National City
46:30 Conversation cuts out mid-sentence, music starts playing

 

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