She said gay rights.
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* gay statue of liberty *
It is long past time they were put on a Rt, Camerano/Associated PrsMay 17, 2019For all of June, New York Cy will serve as host to World Pri, the biggt celebratn of gay liberatn the world. In June of 1969, patrons at the bar, a hub of gay life Greenwich Village, were long exhsted by the antagonisms they faced so routely om the police. One year after Stonewall, Rivera fought to get a gay rights bill gog New York Cy.
Rivera was fightg for legimacy not jt a straight world but among whe, mastream gay activists who wanted to ntrol the journey and keep people like her far away om the steerg wheel. He was regularly the target of homophobic attacks, and other black lears, aaid of the tensns that would ept around him, kept him om occupyg central rol.
Fally, the 1970s, he uld volly advote for gay rights. Was he a homosexual? He went on to publicly advote that homosexualy was not a product of mental illns — the flt posn the years before Stonewall — and that there was no jtifiable reason for subjectg gay men and women to the many forms of bias society kept unleashg.