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CLEVELAND HEIGHTS RPONDS TO OH’S BILL MOLED AFTER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW WH PRI FLAG ON CROSSWALK
Y., a fg moment for gay rights the Uned Stat. But the month of June is double signifint to hman Council member Reggie Harris, who is an openly gay Black man. In the late ‘70s and 1980s, beg an openly gay or queer person was difficult, he said.
He found his first lol safe haven, Goln Lns Lounge—a sce-closed historic gay bar on Ludlow Avenue Clifton—by luck. “Pri is the sistence, the face of tense ristance, that the LGBTQ+ muny serv real rpect and substantive accs to the rights that we all expect to enjoy, ” Mayor Seren addn to raisg the flag outsi of the cy hall, a Progrs Pri patg was stalled on the crosswalk stretchg across the street near the tersectn of Kildare Road and Cedar Road ont of Heights High Seren said that the placement of the newly-pated crosswalk is his “admistratn’s answer to the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill” that was recently troduced Oh. He was missned to create a flag by another gay in, polician Harvey Milk, for San Francis’s annual pri cisn to enlist Baker proved serendipo, as the ia of a flag to reprent the gay and lbian muny had occurred to him two years earlier.