A prentatn of the major symbols associated wh the gay, lbian, bisexual, and trangenr movements (and some general symbols thrown for good measure) and their histori.
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HOW A LAVENR RHO BEME A SYMBOL OF GAY RISTANCE IN '70S BOSTON
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Towards the end of the 19th century, however, the public began lkg lavenr wh homosexualy.
Newspapers nounced Athet as effemate, not least one of the proment lears of the movement, Osr Wil, who equently remisced about his “purple hours” spent wh rent boys, and provoked a moral sndal wh the homoerotic them “The Picture of Dorian Gray.