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"COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS
After beg oted om the U.S. ary for beg gay, she beme an early fighter for gay rights and a proment figure the nascent L.G.B.T.Q. rights movement. * homosexuality in soldiers *
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In 1969, she and another activist, Nancy Tucker, spun off a newspaper of their own, The Gay Bla, which beme the Washgton Bla, the untry’s olst L.