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Title: San Jose Fire Chief Robert Osby
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. http://library.sjsu.edu/sjsu-special-collections/sjsu-special-collections-and-archives
Description: Fire Chief Robert Osby appearing at a High Tech Gays meeting after making disparaging remarks against homosexuals.
"A BAYMEC-sponsored training class on gay and lesbian lifestyles will be conducted for San Jose Fire Department battalion chiefs and commanders on April 4. The...training course was a result of numberous meetings between BAYMEC and Fire Chief Robert Osby. ...BAYMEC came to believe that Osby was not anti-gay." High Tech Gays was a social organization that met in San Jose from 1984-1998. The organization disbanded in 1998. See Ted Sahl, "From Closet to Community," (2002), pp. 166-167.
Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
8.5 x 6.8 in.
Identifier: islandora:80_769
filename: ts_p_101
oclc: 798964772
islandora: 80_769
Language: English
Subject: Gays
Gay rights
Fire chiefs
Homophobia
Place: San Jose
California
Relation: Ted Sahl Collection

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