2 posts tagged “civil rights”
WaPo: Death of a Gay Rights Pioneer editorial, and their obit on her
an interview from 99: 20 Questions--...Her mission ever since has been to tear away "the shroud of
invisibility" that allowed homosexuality to be defined in terms of
crime and disease. Editor of the pioneering lesbian journal The Ladder
in the mid-'60s, she was one of the first-ever gay demonstrators, ...
and a video on her and with her from GLBT History Month (flash)
Same-sex couples seeking marriage licenses descended on clerks offices from one end of the country to the other on Wednesday, marking the 10th Freedom to Marry Day. As in the past nine years in every state except Massachusetts they were refused. ...