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Title: David Kopay cutting a cake
Contributor: Sahl, Ted (photographer) (Creator)
Contributing Institution: San José State University, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: Ted Sahl Collection
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact San Jose State University Special Collections & Archives Department.
Description: Photograph is of David Kopay, a former pro football player cutting a sheet cake in a bar. There are bottles of alcohol in the background.
Written on sleeve holding photograph: "Dane, Pro Football." David Kopay was a former American football running back in the National Football League who in 1975 became one of the first professional athletes to come out as gay.
Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing and compressed into JPEG
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
9.2 x 7.2 in.
Identifier: islandora:80_1295
filename: sahl_portraits_171
islandora: 80_1295
Subject: Bars
Cakes
Football players
Gay men
Gay culture
Place: San Jose
California
Relation: Ted Sahl Collection

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