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A defining moment...

Started by Shana A, March 16, 2008, 08:54:12 PM

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March 16, 2008, 08:54:12 PM
A defining moment...
Filed by: Waymon Hudson
March 16, 2008 12:29 PM

http://www.bilerico.com/2008/03/a_defining_moment.php

I've been doing research for an educational project on LGBT activism and came across this picture. PhotobucketI get goosebumps every time I see it. I wanted to share it, especially in light of Women's History Month.

Four years before the Stonewall riots, in 1965, Barbara Gittings and 25 other gays and lesbians marched in front of the White House to protest employment discrimination in the federal government. The sign she carried -- "Sexual preference is irrelevant to federal employment" -- is now at the Smithsonian, a gift to the nation last October by fellow activist Frank Kameny.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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