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The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
The appearance of hundreds of lesbians of means at a public event was not the only first that day of the Beverly Hills luncheon. It was also the first time that Hollywood celebrities had let themselves be seen at a fund-raiser whose express purpose was to support a lesbian and gay cause; and it was the start of a series of such celebrity events in
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Probably for the first time in the history of the world, hundreds of lesbians, dressed to the nines, drove up to a posh hotel in their Mercedes and BMWs and Cadillacs, asked the doorman the way to the dining room where a lesbian luncheon was being held, and there joined an overflowing crowd of other affluent lesbians for a public lesbian event whos
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Proposition 8 had done “nothing more than enshrine in the California constitution the notion that opposite-sex couples are superior to same-sex couples.”
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Frank Kameny’s observation bears repeating: “We started with nothing, and look what we have wrought!”
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He pointed to each of the speakers on the dais, saying, “I’d be honored, honored, honored, honored, honored, to serve with any of you guys.”45
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Spyer, still a handsome woman, sitting tall in her wheelchair; and Windsor perched on the arm of the chair, decked out in pearls, her beautifully coifed hair still platinum blonde (thanks to Clairol now), were married by Canada’s first openly gay judge, Harvey Brownstone.
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Homosexuality as a “clinical entity” simply does not exist, she told her fellow psychologists, because the homosexual population is as varied as the heterosexual population.
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So in 1938 Harry Hay looked around for a wife.
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know they’re all right. Find ways to counter the attitudes toward homosexuality that your profession has inculcated in both heterosexuals and homosexuals.”37 He was given a standing ovation.
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