Stonewall, Gay Rights, Cyndi Lauper & Me

40 Years Ago

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, the PBS television series and WGBH, the PBS station in Boston have joined together to offer a video competition prize entitled Stonewall Riots and Gay Rights in 2011.

This is interesting in and of itself.

What is more interesting (at least to me) is that I have been asked to be one of the judges, along with Cyndi Lauper

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1VlRqeTkE0[/youtube]

Besides making great music (like Girls Just Wanna Have Fun – but I like Time After Time better), she has also started the True Colors Fund which encourages everyone, but particularly straight people to get behind Gay Rights.

So get your videos in!

Michael Rosenblum

For more than 35 years, Michael Rosenblum has been on the cutting edge of the digital video journalism revolution. During this time, he has lead a drive for video literacy, and the complete rethinking of how television is made and controlled. His work has included: The complete transitioning of The BBC's national network (UK) to a VJ-driven model, starting in 2002. The complete conversion of The Voice of America, the United State's Government's broadcasting agency, (and the largest broadcaster in the world), from short wave radio to television broadcasting and webcasting using the VJ paradigm (1998-present). The construction of NYT Television, a New York Times Company, and the largest producer of non-fiction television in the US. Rosenblum was both the founder and President of NYT TV, (all based on this paradigm (1996-1998). The President and Founder of Video News International, a global VJ-driven newsgathering company, with more than 100 journalists around the world. (1993-1996). Other clients include Spectrum News, Verizon and CBS News.