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(Top: full image. Bottom: detail of image) The Advocate, 1973.
Campaigning to become mayor of Los Angeles, African-American
candidate Tom Bradley held a news conference at the H.E.L.P. head-
quarters. Pictured left to right: Jim Kepner, President of ONE, Inc;
Rob Cole, founder of The Advocate; straight attorney Albert Gordon,
the legendary defender of arrested leatherfolk; publicist Baxter Lowery;
Jay Motley of the ACLU; the suave H.E.L.P. president Larry Townsend
posing like a screen star owning the focus of the photo; and Drummer
editor, John Embry. With LGBT support, Bradley became the 38th
Mayor of Los Angeles (1973 to 1993). Photo by Walt Blumoff
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