Sublime

Milton Shapp

There was no one to encourage them to believe that they were innocent because homosexuality in and of itself is innocent.

Barney Frank called it a “bittersweet day.” It was the first law in American history, he said, “that begins the job of protecting LGBT people against prejudice,” but, he added, it came “too late to save countless victims.”39

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.

Rudi Gernreich,

Alfred Kinsey’s study on human sexuality.

The PR person for Latinos pro Derechos Humanos, Manolo Gomez, who’d arranged the radio “debate,” was beaten and left for dead in an alley. His car was firebombed. He was also fired from his job as an editor for the Spanish-language edition of Cosmopolitan magazine because he’d made public declarations about his homosexuality.

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