WPBT2
marks the 30th anniversary of the election of America's first openly gay mayor
with the broadcast premiere of The
Newcomer on Monday, January 14 at 9:00 p.m. The Newcomer is a documentary that focuses on the life and career
of Richard Heyman, who was elected America’s
first openly gay Mayor for the city of Key
West.
Directed
by Emmy Award-winning journalist John Mikytuck, the Newcomer tells the story about a forgotten gay icon and the
tragic circumstances which arrested the political and social progress he made
for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people in the 1980s.
While the culture wars inflamed by Anita Bryant and the religious right had a powerful impact on the march toward gay civil rights in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the AIDS epidemic was ultimately much more destructive to the movement. The film focuses attention on that tragedy through the story of Heyman.
“John Mikytuck's, The Newcomer,
recalls Key West
in the 1980s, when the island had the highest AIDS rate in the nation and city
leaders, including Mayor Richard Heyman, struggled to keep the truth quiet from
mainstream tourists. Ironically, within a few years the AIDS virus killed
Heyman and hundreds of other gay Key Westers,” stated Steve Rothaus with the
Miami Herald.
The Newcomer includes interviews with such longtime Keys notables as Peter Ilchuk, June Keith, John Kiraly, Joan Higgs and Dr. Mark Whiteside.
The Newcomer was made possible with support from The Miami Foundation.
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