Renred bronze, vered whe lacquer, two women s together on a park bench Greenwich Village. One of the women touch the thigh of her partner as they gaze to each other’s ey. The two women are part of Gee Segal’s inic sculpture Gay Liberatn, but the powerful symbols were moled on real people: Llie Cohen and her wife Beth Sk.
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She said gay rights. * gay statue of liberty *
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