Remembering Joe Herzenberg

With his constant output of diary entries, letters to the editor, and news stories during the years he wrote for The Anvil (Durham, NC's alternative paper of the 70s & early 80s), Joe was a blogger before the term was invented. The audio on this clip captures Joe typing away one night at his home on Cobb Terrace, making the world a better place one word at a time.

Besides scenes from Joe's life and times, also included in this slideshow is the full text of Joe's moving speech at the 1986 NC Gay Pride March (that year called the Triangle Lesbian and Gay March and Celebration) in Durham on June 28, 1986.

Remembering Joe Herzenberg (1941-2007) - celebrating the life of the first openly gay elected official in the former Confederacy, a champion of civil rights and the environment, and the Mayor of Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, N.C.

For more about Joe, visit JoeHerzenberg.org.

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