George Crile became interested in making " Gay Power , Gay Politics " after learning of the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights scheduled for October 1979 . Crile had earlier produced a piece on assassinated San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk that ran on the program '' CBS Magazine '' . For this new program , he intended to focus on the 1979 San Francisco mayoral election and the political strength of the gay voting bloc in the city , which the several candidates were courting . He brought Grace Diekhaus in to co-produce with him and secured approval from CBS
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