1. William Joseph Rosendahl was an American politician.
36 Facts About Bill Rosendahl
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Bill Rosendahl served on the Los Angeles City Council, representing Council District 11 from 2005 to 2013.
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Bill Rosendahl was born the sixth of eight children in Englewood, New Jersey, to a German Catholic household.
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Bill Rosendahl's parents fled Europe during the rise of the Nazi Germany.
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Bill Rosendahl graduated with a bachelor's degree in political science and economics from Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
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Bill Rosendahl went on to attend the University of Pittsburgh, where he demonstrated against the Reserve Officers' Training Corps program on campus.
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Bill Rosendahl graduated with a Master of Social Work in urban organizing and political views.
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Bill Rosendahl served in the US Army from 1969 to 1971 during the Vietnam War.
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Bill Rosendahl spent a year as a psychiatric social worker, counseling troops returning from combat.
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Bill Rosendahl was a member of The American Legion, Post 283, in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles.
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Bill Rosendahl has hosted public affairs programs, such as Local Talk, Week in Review, and Beyond the Beltway, and produced more than 3,000 programs during his 16 years in journalism.
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Bill Rosendahl chaired the California Commission on Tax Policy in the New Economy, served as president of the Los Angeles Press Club, as chairman of the Cable and Telecommunication Association and was a member of the education fund of the Los Angeles League of Women Voters.
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Bill Rosendahl was a regular moderator of community forums, steering discussions on various issues including charter reform, secession and the formation of neighborhood councils.
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Bill Rosendahl worked on the Eugene McCarthy and Robert F Kennedy campaigns in the 1968 Democratic Party presidential primaries.
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Bill Rosendahl later was appointed by the White House to the United States Department of State as Chief of Operations for the US Trade and Development Program.
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Bill Rosendahl later worked as an associate in philanthropic work for John D Rockefeller III.
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Bill Rosendahl represented the Los Angeles City Council District 11, which included neighborhoods from Pacific Palisades to Westchester, Los Angeles.
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Bill Rosendahl has often been described by his colleagues as the "conscience of the City Council".
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Bill Rosendahl denounced the Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan.
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Bill Rosendahl served as vice-chair of the Commerce Committee, which oversees Los Angeles World Airports, including Los Angeles International Airport.
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Bill Rosendahl chaired of the Southern California Regional Airport Authority and one of the city's appointees to the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission.
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Bill Rosendahl opted to not run for a third term after his cancer diagnosis in 2012.
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Bill Rosendahl was succeeded by his chief of staff, Mike Bonin.
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Bill Rosendahl was openly gay during the majority of his adulthood but struggled with the idea of being gay in his youth.
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Bill Rosendahl had first suspected that he was gay during early puberty in the Boy Scouts.
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Bill Rosendahl noticed that he had an attraction to boys instead of girls.
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Bill Rosendahl later checked out a book on homosexuality from a local library and learned about the significance of Fire Island and Christopher Street to gay people.
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Bill Rosendahl would come to the realization later in his life that homosexuality was simply "another expression of nature," and no reason to be ashamed.
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Bill Rosendahl stated in an interview with the Lavender Effect that he was the victim of a gay-bashing incident while in graduate school.
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Bill Rosendahl was walking from a gay bar to campus when five men ran up to him screaming obscenities and slurs and then began beating him.
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Bill Rosendahl endured discrimination while working at Westinghouse Broadcasting and Cable, where his boss removed his staff and placed him in a windowless office because they suspected that he was gay.
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Bill Rosendahl later came out to his boss, the chairman of the board of Century Cable and found his boss to be accepting.
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Christopher Blauman and Bill Rosendahl were romantic partners for fourteen years.
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Bill Rosendahl had an affinity for nature and believed that having a connection to the environment was key to preserving the mental health and vitality of gay people.
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Bill Rosendahl kept a garden regularly and considered it key to his survival.
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Bill Rosendahl died at his home in Mar Vista, Los Angeles of ureteral cancer on March 30,2016, at the age of 70.