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homosexuals were easy prey for communists,
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
“We’ve got to call a spade a spade and a perverted human being a perverted human being,” Helms had told the Senate when he proposed an amendment adding “sexual abstinence only” to a $300 million appropriation bill for AIDS education. (The Senate supported him, 94 to 2.59
Lillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
But most serious of all, Judge Davies wrote, was that “Thompson and Sharon are a family of affinity, which ought to be accorded respect.”
Lillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
Frank Kameny shaking hands with President Barack Obama, who signed a memorandum in 2009 extending benefits to partners of federal employees. Vice President Joseph Biden, US Representative Barney Frank, US Senator Joe Lieberman, and US Representative Tammy Baldwin are witnesses.
Lillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
But Stonewall, Compton, and Dewey’s all have one thing in common: drag queens and street kids.
Edmund White • The Stonewall Reader
Life magazine—in an alarming article that asked, “Do the Homosexuals, Like the Communists, Intend to Bury Us?”
Lillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
The element of mutual homosexuality made it seem more perverse, yet safe.
Patrick Califia • Macho Sluts: A Little Sister's Classic (Little Sister's Classics Book 10)
The main myth is that homosexuals are born that way.