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• WORLD'S FIRST 'DYKE MARCH' HELD DCBOSTON'S 2008 DYKE MARCH IN 1993, THE LBIAN AVENGERS ANIZED THE FIRST DYKE MARCH ON WASHGTON, D.C. AS A LN PEOPLE ANIZED THE CY FOR THE MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN, GAY AND BI EQUAL RIGHTS AND LIBERATN. SCE THEN, LBIANS CI AROUND THE WORLD HAVE ANIZED ANNUAL DYKE MARCH, OFTEN CIDG WH PRI AND NVENG FOR PURPOS SPECIFIC TO EACH CY, CLUDG VISIBILY, HIGHLIGHTG WOMEN THE LGBTQ+ MUNY, WORKG AND PROTTG. CHRISTE KEHOE BE SAN DIEGO COUNTY’S FIRST OUT OFFICIALKEHOE 1999.A TRAILBLAZG FIXTURE SAN DIEGO’S FEMIST AND LGBTQ+ MUNI, CHRISTE KEHOE WAS THE EDOR OF THE GAYZETTE OM 1984 TO 1986, LEAVG TO CHAIR SAN DIEGO COUNTY’S ARM OF THE STATEWI MPAIGN TO FEAT LYNDON LAROUCHE’S AIDS QUARANTE IATIVE, PROPOSN 64. AFTER THAT SUCCS, SHE WORKED FOR AN AIDS ASSISTANCE ANIZATN.“GAY MEN WERE PREVENTED OM DONATG BLOOD, SO THE LBIAN MUNY AND STRAIGHT WOMEN STEPPED UP AND STARTED BLOOD SISTERS TO DONATE BLOOD. ALL KDS OF ACTIVI LIKE THAT ME OUT OF THE AIDS CRISIS,” KEHOE SAID A MARCH 17, 2016, VIO POSTED BY THE WOMEN’S MM OF CALIFORNIA ABOUT THE “VERY SPERATE” TIM OM 1985 TO THE 1990S.IN 1993, KEHOE RAN FOR SAN DIEGO CY COUNCIL. “MY MPAIGN MOTTO WAS ‘AS A NORTH PARK HOMEOWNER, I UNRSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF CLEAN SAFE NEIGHBORHOODS,’” SHE SAYS. “THE GAY MUNY REALIZED THIS WAS OUR SHOT AT TLY HAVG A SEAT AT THE TABLE. IF WE WON, I WOULD BE THE FIRST ELECTED OPENLY LGBT OFFICIAL THE UNTY . . . IT WAS STILL MY FAVORE MPAIGN. AND WE WON BY FIVE POTS. AND WE AMAZED EVERYBODY. AND WE SET OUT TO REALLY BE A GOOD REPRENTATIVE FOR ALL THE PEOPLE. THE GAY MUNY KNEW WE ULDN’T BE SILENT ANYMORE.” KEHOE SERVED SEVEN YEARS ON THE CY UNCIL, DURG WHICH SHE WAS APPOTED TO THE CALIFORNIA COASTAL COMMISSN AND THE SAN DIEGO ASSOCIATN OF GOVERNMENTS. IN 1998, KEHOE GARNERED NATNAL ATTENTN HER RACE FOR THE U.S. CONGRS BEE OF HER SEXUAL ORIENTATN, BUT DID NOT BEAT HER OPPONENT. YET 2000, SHE WAS ELECTED TO THE CALIFORNIA STATE ASSEMBLY, WHERE SHE SERVED 12 YEARS, DURG WHICH SHE -FOUND THE LGBT LEGISLATIVE CC, THORED THE STATE’S LARGT ENERGY NSERVATN BILL, AND WAS ELECTED ASSEMBLY SPEAKER PRO TEM, THE CHAMBER’S SEND-HIGHT-RANKG POSN. IN 2004, KEHOE WAS ELECTED TO THE STATE SENATE, WHERE SHE SERVED UNTIL TERMED OUT 2012. A BUMPER STICKER OM CHRIS KEHOE'S 1998 CONGRSNAL MPAIGN.IN MARCH 2016, CHRISTE KEHOE WAS DUCTED TO THE SAN DIEGO COUNTY WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME AS A TRAILBLAZER. SHE WAS THE SUBJECT OF THE 2016 DOCUMENTARY POLIL ANIMALS, WHICH ALSO FEATURED FELLOW LBIAN CALIFORNIA POLIL TRAILBLAZERS SHEILA KHL, CAROLE MIGN AND JACKIE GOLDBERG. ‍PRINT CLTON MEETS WH LGBTQ LEARSLGBTQ+ VICTORY FUND’S WILLIAM WAYBOURN (THIRD OM RIGHT) AND OTHER LGBTQ+ LEARS AT A HISTORIC OVAL OFFICE MEETG WH PRINT CLTON. COURTY OF PRINT BILL CLTON WHE HOEIN APRIL 1993, LGBTQ+ LEARS CLUDG VICTORY FUND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WILLIAM WAYBOURN WERE VED TO A HISTORIC MEETG WH PRINT CLTON THE OVAL OFFICE JT BEFORE THE MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN, GAY, AND BI EQUAL RIGHTS AND LIBERATN. YET THREE MONTHS LATER, JULY, WAYBOURN WAS AMONG TWENTY-EIGHT ARRTED AT THE WHE HOE GATE PROTTG CLTON’S “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL”—A “PROMISE” POLICY REPLACG THE PROMISE OF A PLETE LIFTG OF THE BAN ON OPEN ARY SERVICE.LONGTIME FRIENDSA REAL TURNG POT LGBTQ+ POLIL POWER ME WHEN FORMER ANTI–VIETNAM WAR ACTIVISTS DAVID MIXNER AND BILL CLTON REKDLED THEIR IENDSHIP 1992. IT WASN’T EASY. MIXNER HAD LOST 300 IENDS TO AIDS, CLUDG HIS BELOVED PARTNER, PETER STT, AND HE AND LYNN GREER WERE WORKG HARD AS BOARD -CHAIRS FOR VICTORY FUND. WILLIAM WAYBOURN “DID A BRILLIANT JOB GETTG THE ANIZATN OFF THE GROUND ON A DAILY BASIS,” MIXNER SAYS, A “HUGE CHALLENGE” SCE SO MANY DONORS HAD DIED AND OTHERS WERE FANCIALLY STRETCHED FUNDG AIDS ANIZATNS. GREATER LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN WAS A NECSY, BUT LGBTQ+ POLIS WERE PARIAHS. IN 1988, MIXNER AND CHECKBOOK ACTIVISTS RANDY KLOSE, DE COMEGYS, AND DAVID WEXLER OFFERED MICHAEL DAKIS’S PRINTIAL MPAIGN $1 LN BUNDLED “LAVENR” DOLLARS. THEY WERE REBUFFED.“WE JT SAT THERE AGHAST. HOW N WE BE AT THE APEX OF THIS EPIMIC AND THE DEMOCRATS WON’T EVEN TOUCH AS A GROUP?” MIXNER TOLD JOURNALIST KAREN OMB 2016. IN LATE 1991, PRINTIAL ASPIRANT CLTON LLED MIXNER, EXPECTG TOMATIC SUPPORT. MIXNER SAID THE DARK HORSE NDIDATE NEED TO SECURE THE ENDORSEMENT OF ANGLE, ANOTHER GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN, GIVEN VICTORY FUND ONLY ENDORSED LGBTQ+ NDIDAT, AND CLTON RECEIVED . BUT ANGLE’S SUPPORT WAS SOON PUT TO THE TT WH THE GENNIFER FLOWERS SEX SNDAL. CLTON SEEMED LIKE THE WALKG AD, MIXNER RELLS.ANGLE REMAED LOYAL WHILE ALSO MAKG MANDS FOR THEIR PARTICIPATN A FEBARY FUNDRAISER AT THE BEVERLY WILSHIRE HOTEL, HOSTED BY FUTURE SECRETARY OF STATE WARREN CHRISTOPHER. THEY WANTED A PRIVATE LGBTQ+ RECEPTN FOR OUT SAN FRANCIS SUPERVISOR ROBERTA ACHTENBERG TO TRODUCE CLTON, HOPG HER RAISED VISIBILY WOULD LEAD TO A PRINTIAL APPOTMENT.“I WOULD SAY A THIRD, MAYBE EVEN HALF THE PEOPLE AT THIS STRAIGHT DNER WERE GAYS AND LBIANS,” SAYS MIXNER. “THAT PUT ON THE MAP—THAT WAS A TURNG POT. WE PROVED THAT WE WOULD BE IENDS THROUGH THICK AND TH.”BUT TENSNS REMAED. THE HISTORIC “I HAVE A VISN AND YOU’RE A PART OF ” SPEECH AT THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE MAY 1992 ALMOST DIDN’T HAPPEN. WHEN THE MPAIGN SAID “ABSOLUTELY NO PRS,” MIXNER BALKED AND SAID HE WAS WILLG TO RETURN THE $100,000 RAISED OM THE PACKED HOE. THE MPAIGN VED.“WE HAVE ALL E A LONG WAY TONIGHT,” MIXNER SAID, TRODUCG CLTON, THE LOS ANGEL TIM RELLED A HISTORIL REP ON MAY 13, 2012. “NO ONE HAND THIS EVENT TONIGHT . . . WE EARNED , CH BY CH, STEP BY STEP, MOMENT BY MOMENT.”THE GLOWG HEADL HELPED MAKE CLTON VIABLE. MIXNER AND LGBTQ+ SUPPORTERS RAISED $3.2 LN AND GALVANIZED THE FIRST-EVER GAY VOTG BLOC. A NATNAL VOTER NEWS SERVICE EX POLL SHOWED THAT SELF-INTIFIED GAYS, LBIANS, AND BISEXUALS MA UP 3.2 PERCENT OF VOT FOR CLTON.IN HISTORIC FIRST, ROBERTA ACHTENBERG CONFIRMED BY THE SENATEFORMER HUD ASSISTANT SECRETARY ROBERTA ACHTENBERG (CENTER) WH MARY MAN AND HILLARY ROSEN. COURTY OF EDGAR B. ANRSON IN 1992, OUT SAN FRANCIS SUPERVISOR ROBERTA ACHTENBERG ADDRSED THE DEMOCRATIC NATNAL CONVENTN ON THE MOST PRO-LGBTQ+ CIVIL RIGHTS PLATFORM U.S. HISTORY. LONGTIME BILL CLTON MPAIGN STAFFER BOB HATTOY ALSO LIVERED A POWERFUL SPEECH ON BEG A GAY MAN WH AIDS. BOTH WERE BREAKTHROUGHS. THE LGBTQ+ VOTE WAS NOT CLCHED, HOWEVER. “WE WAED WH BAED BREATH TO SEE IF ANY REFERENCE TO ‘GAY’ WAS CLUD” CLTON’S ACCEPTANCE SPEECH, SAYS ACHTENBERG. IF NOT, DAVID MIXNER WAS PREPARED TO LEAD THE 133 GAY AND LBIAN LEGAT OFF THE NVENTN FLOOR PROTT. “WE NEED TO BE VDITED, AND ED, WE WERE.”AFTER CLTON’S VICTORY, LGBTQ+ VICTORY FUND’S WILLIAM WAYBOURN SPEARHEAD THE PRINTIAL APPOTMENTS PROJECT. AT THE TOP OF THE AGENDA WAS ENSURG THE NOMATN AND NFIRMATN OF ACHTENBERG TO BE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HOG AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT.“MY APPOTMENT WAS SIGNED TO BE THE VANGUARD,” ACHTENBERG TOLD JOURNALIST KAREN OMB HER 2016 BOOK REPRENTATN MATTERS, THOUGH NO ONE IMAGED THE GREE OF UGLY RISTANCE. “THAT TOOK EVERYBODY BY SURPRISE, CLUDG [SEN.] TED KENNEDY, WHO AT ONE POT LLED ME UP AT NIGHT AND APOLOGIZED ON BEHALF OF HIS LLEAGU.”THE HEADLE-MAKG RISTANCE WAS LED BY VENOMOLY ANTI-GAY NORTH CAROLA REPUBLIN SENATORS JSE HELMS AND LCH FAIRCLOTH. HELMS, WHO TRIED TO BE A “BROODG PRENCE” DURG THE MTEE HEARG, LLED ACHTENBERG “THAT DAMNED LBIAN,” WHICH LBIANS SOON APPROPRIATED AND TURNED TO A TEE SHIRT. FOUNDG LGBTQ+ VICTORY FUND BOARD MEMBER HILARY ROSEN GOT BY LOBBYG SENATORS. “HILARY IS REALLY THE PERSON WHO ENGEERED THE POSIVE NFIRM,” SAID ACHTENBERG. “SHE KNEW WHERE ALL THE BODI WERE BURIED, AND SHE WENT UP TO THE LE TO MAKE HAPPEN.”ACHTENBERG’S NFIRMATN BEME A MOBILIZG MOMENT FOR THE LGBTQ+ MOVEMENT. “EVERYBODY KNEW I ULD NOT GO DOWN,” SHE SAYS. “IT FELT LIKE WE HAD TO DO WHATEVER TOOK TO W.” VICE PRINT AL GORE WAS ON STANDBY SE HE WAS NEED TO BREAK A TIE ON THE FLOOR, BUT ON MAY 24, 1993, ACHTENBERG WON 51 TO 34, WH A NUMBER OF “CHICKENS” NOT VOTG.ACHTENBERG LOOKS BACK WH PRI. “IT HURT EPLY TO BE LLED ALL KDS OF NAM. HELMS QUTNED THE LEGIMACY OF MY RELATNSHIP WH MY FAY. HE SAID I WAS UNF. THEY QUTNED WHETHER I ULD UPHOLD THE CONSTUTN, AS IF BEG GAY MEANT YOU WERE NOT A PATRT. BUT WE PREVAILED, AND ’S THANKS TO PEOPLE LIKE DAVID AND HILARY AND THE VICTORY FUND WHO STUCK THEIR NECKS OUT. IT’S EASIER NOW, AND WE’RE GLAD OF .”‍ALLAN SPEAR’S HUMAN RIGHTS ACT PASSSEN. ALLAN SPEAR THERE WAS A PERD OF TIME -- JT BEFORE AND AFTER THE STONEWALL RTS 1969 -- WHEN ACTIVISTS WERE RISG UP AGAST THE VIETNAM WAR AND TRANSFORMG CIVIL RIGHTS TO NEW LIBERATN MOVEMENTS WHERE GAYS AND LBIANS WERE NSIRED A LEGIMATE MORY STEAD OF PATHOLOGIL PERVERTS. SOME OF THOSE ACTIVISTS, LIKE YALE UNIVERSY PHD GRADUATE ALLAN SPEAR, CHOSE TO MAKE CHANGE LEGISLATIVELY. SPEAR WAS ELECTED TO THE MNOTA STATE SENATE 1972, G OUT 1974, JT A MONTH AFTER ELAE NOBLE BEME THE FIRST OUT LGBTQ+ PERSON ELECTED TO A STATE LEGISLATURE. HE SERVED TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS THE SENATE, CLUDG EIGHT YEARS AS PRINT UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT 2000. THE HIGHLIGHT OF HIS REER WAS WORKG WHOUT HOE REP. KAREN CLARK ON PASSAGE OF THE 1993 MNOTA HUMAN RIGHTS ACT, GIVG GAY RINTS PROTECTN OM DISCRIMATN TN, EMPLOYMENT, AND HOG. THE BILL HAD BEEN ON THE TABLE FOR TWENTY YEARS.“I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE SERVED WH ME—EHER LLEAGU OR STAFF PEOPLE, LOBBYISTS SOME S, WHO HAVE TOLD ME THAT THEY HAVE CHANGED THEIR VIEWS ON GAY ISSU OVER THE YEARS BEE I WAS THE ONLY GAY PERSON THEY EVER KNEW,” SPEAR TOLD “OUT AND ELECTED THE USA: 1974–2004” FOR HE WAS SEEN AS A “PRODUCTIVE HUMAN BEG” AND “THEY VELOPED NEW IAS AND NEW ATTUS ABOUT WHAT GAY PEOPLE ARE AND HOW GAY PEOPLE BEHAVE BEE OF THAT.” COMG OUT HAS AN IMPACT. “I’VE ALWAYS ARGUED THAT G OUT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT POLIL CISN THAT ANY GAY PERSON N EVER MAKE. WE THK OF OFTEN AS PERSONAL RATHER THAN A POLIL CISN, BUT ALSO HAS THIS REALLY PROFOUND POLIL IMPACT ON THE PEOPLE AROUND AND OUR OWN SOCIETY,” SAID SPEAR, WHO PASSED AWAY ON OCTOBER 11, NATNAL COMG OUT DAY, 2008. HE WAS SURVIVED BY HIS PARTNER OF 20-PL YEARS, JUNJIRO TSUJI.‍LGBTQ+ VICTORY INSTUTE FOUND
• GAY RIGHTS MAY BE SOCIAL ISSUE OF 1990S
• A DOZEN MAJOR GROUPS HELP DRIVE THE RELIG RIGHT’S ANTI-GAY CSA

WORLD'S FIRST 'DYKE MARCH' HELD DCBOSTON'S 2008 DYKE MARCH IN 1993, THE LBIAN AVENGERS ANIZED THE FIRST DYKE MARCH ON WASHGTON, D.C. AS A LN PEOPLE ANIZED THE CY FOR THE MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN, GAY AND BI EQUAL RIGHTS AND LIBERATN. SCE THEN, LBIANS CI AROUND THE WORLD HAVE ANIZED ANNUAL DYKE MARCH, OFTEN CIDG WH PRI AND NVENG FOR PURPOS SPECIFIC TO EACH CY, CLUDG VISIBILY, HIGHLIGHTG WOMEN THE LGBTQ+ MUNY, WORKG AND PROTTG. CHRISTE KEHOE BE SAN DIEGO COUNTY’S FIRST OUT OFFICIALKEHOE 1999.A TRAILBLAZG FIXTURE SAN DIEGO’S FEMIST AND LGBTQ+ MUNI, CHRISTE KEHOE WAS THE EDOR OF THE GAYZETTE OM 1984 TO 1986, LEAVG TO CHAIR SAN DIEGO COUNTY’S ARM OF THE STATEWI MPAIGN TO FEAT LYNDON LAROUCHE’S AIDS QUARANTE IATIVE, PROPOSN 64. AFTER THAT SUCCS, SHE WORKED FOR AN AIDS ASSISTANCE ANIZATN.“GAY MEN WERE PREVENTED OM DONATG BLOOD, SO THE LBIAN MUNY AND STRAIGHT WOMEN STEPPED UP AND STARTED BLOOD SISTERS TO DONATE BLOOD. ALL KDS OF ACTIVI LIKE THAT ME OUT OF THE AIDS CRISIS,” KEHOE SAID A MARCH 17, 2016, VIO POSTED BY THE WOMEN’S MM OF CALIFORNIA ABOUT THE “VERY SPERATE” TIM OM 1985 TO THE 1990S.IN 1993, KEHOE RAN FOR SAN DIEGO CY COUNCIL. “MY MPAIGN MOTTO WAS ‘AS A NORTH PARK HOMEOWNER, I UNRSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF CLEAN SAFE NEIGHBORHOODS,’” SHE SAYS. “THE GAY MUNY REALIZED THIS WAS OUR SHOT AT TLY HAVG A SEAT AT THE TABLE. IF WE WON, I WOULD BE THE FIRST ELECTED OPENLY LGBT OFFICIAL THE UNTY . . . IT WAS STILL MY FAVORE MPAIGN. AND WE WON BY FIVE POTS. AND WE AMAZED EVERYBODY. AND WE SET OUT TO REALLY BE A GOOD REPRENTATIVE FOR ALL THE PEOPLE. THE GAY MUNY KNEW WE ULDN’T BE SILENT ANYMORE.” KEHOE SERVED SEVEN YEARS ON THE CY UNCIL, DURG WHICH SHE WAS APPOTED TO THE CALIFORNIA COASTAL COMMISSN AND THE SAN DIEGO ASSOCIATN OF GOVERNMENTS. IN 1998, KEHOE GARNERED NATNAL ATTENTN HER RACE FOR THE U.S. CONGRS BEE OF HER SEXUAL ORIENTATN, BUT DID NOT BEAT HER OPPONENT. YET 2000, SHE WAS ELECTED TO THE CALIFORNIA STATE ASSEMBLY, WHERE SHE SERVED 12 YEARS, DURG WHICH SHE -FOUND THE LGBT LEGISLATIVE CC, THORED THE STATE’S LARGT ENERGY NSERVATN BILL, AND WAS ELECTED ASSEMBLY SPEAKER PRO TEM, THE CHAMBER’S SEND-HIGHT-RANKG POSN. IN 2004, KEHOE WAS ELECTED TO THE STATE SENATE, WHERE SHE SERVED UNTIL TERMED OUT 2012. A BUMPER STICKER OM CHRIS KEHOE'S 1998 CONGRSNAL MPAIGN.IN MARCH 2016, CHRISTE KEHOE WAS DUCTED TO THE SAN DIEGO COUNTY WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME AS A TRAILBLAZER. SHE WAS THE SUBJECT OF THE 2016 DOCUMENTARY POLIL ANIMALS, WHICH ALSO FEATURED FELLOW LBIAN CALIFORNIA POLIL TRAILBLAZERS SHEILA KHL, CAROLE MIGN AND JACKIE GOLDBERG. ‍PRINT CLTON MEETS WH LGBTQ LEARSLGBTQ+ VICTORY FUND’S WILLIAM WAYBOURN (THIRD OM RIGHT) AND OTHER LGBTQ+ LEARS AT A HISTORIC OVAL OFFICE MEETG WH PRINT CLTON. COURTY OF PRINT BILL CLTON WHE HOEIN APRIL 1993, LGBTQ+ LEARS CLUDG VICTORY FUND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WILLIAM WAYBOURN WERE VED TO A HISTORIC MEETG WH PRINT CLTON THE OVAL OFFICE JT BEFORE THE MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN, GAY, AND BI EQUAL RIGHTS AND LIBERATN. YET THREE MONTHS LATER, JULY, WAYBOURN WAS AMONG TWENTY-EIGHT ARRTED AT THE WHE HOE GATE PROTTG CLTON’S “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL”—A “PROMISE” POLICY REPLACG THE PROMISE OF A PLETE LIFTG OF THE BAN ON OPEN ARY SERVICE.LONGTIME FRIENDSA REAL TURNG POT LGBTQ+ POLIL POWER ME WHEN FORMER ANTI–VIETNAM WAR ACTIVISTS DAVID MIXNER AND BILL CLTON REKDLED THEIR IENDSHIP 1992. IT WASN’T EASY. MIXNER HAD LOST 300 IENDS TO AIDS, CLUDG HIS BELOVED PARTNER, PETER STT, AND HE AND LYNN GREER WERE WORKG HARD AS BOARD -CHAIRS FOR VICTORY FUND. WILLIAM WAYBOURN “DID A BRILLIANT JOB GETTG THE ANIZATN OFF THE GROUND ON A DAILY BASIS,” MIXNER SAYS, A “HUGE CHALLENGE” SCE SO MANY DONORS HAD DIED AND OTHERS WERE FANCIALLY STRETCHED FUNDG AIDS ANIZATNS. GREATER LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN WAS A NECSY, BUT LGBTQ+ POLIS WERE PARIAHS. IN 1988, MIXNER AND CHECKBOOK ACTIVISTS RANDY KLOSE, DE COMEGYS, AND DAVID WEXLER OFFERED MICHAEL DAKIS’S PRINTIAL MPAIGN $1 LN BUNDLED “LAVENR” DOLLARS. THEY WERE REBUFFED.“WE JT SAT THERE AGHAST. HOW N WE BE AT THE APEX OF THIS EPIMIC AND THE DEMOCRATS WON’T EVEN TOUCH AS A GROUP?” MIXNER TOLD JOURNALIST KAREN OMB 2016. IN LATE 1991, PRINTIAL ASPIRANT CLTON LLED MIXNER, EXPECTG TOMATIC SUPPORT. MIXNER SAID THE DARK HORSE NDIDATE NEED TO SECURE THE ENDORSEMENT OF ANGLE, ANOTHER GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN, GIVEN VICTORY FUND ONLY ENDORSED LGBTQ+ NDIDAT, AND CLTON RECEIVED . BUT ANGLE’S SUPPORT WAS SOON PUT TO THE TT WH THE GENNIFER FLOWERS SEX SNDAL. CLTON SEEMED LIKE THE WALKG AD, MIXNER RELLS.ANGLE REMAED LOYAL WHILE ALSO MAKG MANDS FOR THEIR PARTICIPATN A FEBARY FUNDRAISER AT THE BEVERLY WILSHIRE HOTEL, HOSTED BY FUTURE SECRETARY OF STATE WARREN CHRISTOPHER. THEY WANTED A PRIVATE LGBTQ+ RECEPTN FOR OUT SAN FRANCIS SUPERVISOR ROBERTA ACHTENBERG TO TRODUCE CLTON, HOPG HER RAISED VISIBILY WOULD LEAD TO A PRINTIAL APPOTMENT.“I WOULD SAY A THIRD, MAYBE EVEN HALF THE PEOPLE AT THIS STRAIGHT DNER WERE GAYS AND LBIANS,” SAYS MIXNER. “THAT PUT ON THE MAP—THAT WAS A TURNG POT. WE PROVED THAT WE WOULD BE IENDS THROUGH THICK AND TH.”BUT TENSNS REMAED. THE HISTORIC “I HAVE A VISN AND YOU’RE A PART OF ” SPEECH AT THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE MAY 1992 ALMOST DIDN’T HAPPEN. WHEN THE MPAIGN SAID “ABSOLUTELY NO PRS,” MIXNER BALKED AND SAID HE WAS WILLG TO RETURN THE $100,000 RAISED OM THE PACKED HOE. THE MPAIGN VED.“WE HAVE ALL E A LONG WAY TONIGHT,” MIXNER SAID, TRODUCG CLTON, THE LOS ANGEL TIM RELLED A HISTORIL REP ON MAY 13, 2012. “NO ONE HAND THIS EVENT TONIGHT . . . WE EARNED , CH BY CH, STEP BY STEP, MOMENT BY MOMENT.”THE GLOWG HEADL HELPED MAKE CLTON VIABLE. MIXNER AND LGBTQ+ SUPPORTERS RAISED $3.2 LN AND GALVANIZED THE FIRST-EVER GAY VOTG BLOC. A NATNAL VOTER NEWS SERVICE EX POLL SHOWED THAT SELF-INTIFIED GAYS, LBIANS, AND BISEXUALS MA UP 3.2 PERCENT OF VOT FOR CLTON.IN HISTORIC FIRST, ROBERTA ACHTENBERG CONFIRMED BY THE SENATEFORMER HUD ASSISTANT SECRETARY ROBERTA ACHTENBERG (CENTER) WH MARY MAN AND HILLARY ROSEN. COURTY OF EDGAR B. ANRSON IN 1992, OUT SAN FRANCIS SUPERVISOR ROBERTA ACHTENBERG ADDRSED THE DEMOCRATIC NATNAL CONVENTN ON THE MOST PRO-LGBTQ+ CIVIL RIGHTS PLATFORM U.S. HISTORY. LONGTIME BILL CLTON MPAIGN STAFFER BOB HATTOY ALSO LIVERED A POWERFUL SPEECH ON BEG A GAY MAN WH AIDS. BOTH WERE BREAKTHROUGHS. THE LGBTQ+ VOTE WAS NOT CLCHED, HOWEVER. “WE WAED WH BAED BREATH TO SEE IF ANY REFERENCE TO ‘GAY’ WAS CLUD” CLTON’S ACCEPTANCE SPEECH, SAYS ACHTENBERG. IF NOT, DAVID MIXNER WAS PREPARED TO LEAD THE 133 GAY AND LBIAN LEGAT OFF THE NVENTN FLOOR PROTT. “WE NEED TO BE VDITED, AND ED, WE WERE.”AFTER CLTON’S VICTORY, LGBTQ+ VICTORY FUND’S WILLIAM WAYBOURN SPEARHEAD THE PRINTIAL APPOTMENTS PROJECT. AT THE TOP OF THE AGENDA WAS ENSURG THE NOMATN AND NFIRMATN OF ACHTENBERG TO BE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HOG AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT.“MY APPOTMENT WAS SIGNED TO BE THE VANGUARD,” ACHTENBERG TOLD JOURNALIST KAREN OMB HER 2016 BOOK REPRENTATN MATTERS, THOUGH NO ONE IMAGED THE GREE OF UGLY RISTANCE. “THAT TOOK EVERYBODY BY SURPRISE, CLUDG [SEN.] TED KENNEDY, WHO AT ONE POT LLED ME UP AT NIGHT AND APOLOGIZED ON BEHALF OF HIS LLEAGU.”THE HEADLE-MAKG RISTANCE WAS LED BY VENOMOLY ANTI-GAY NORTH CAROLA REPUBLIN SENATORS JSE HELMS AND LCH FAIRCLOTH. HELMS, WHO TRIED TO BE A “BROODG PRENCE” DURG THE MTEE HEARG, LLED ACHTENBERG “THAT DAMNED LBIAN,” WHICH LBIANS SOON APPROPRIATED AND TURNED TO A TEE SHIRT. FOUNDG LGBTQ+ VICTORY FUND BOARD MEMBER HILARY ROSEN GOT BY LOBBYG SENATORS. “HILARY IS REALLY THE PERSON WHO ENGEERED THE POSIVE NFIRM,” SAID ACHTENBERG. “SHE KNEW WHERE ALL THE BODI WERE BURIED, AND SHE WENT UP TO THE LE TO MAKE HAPPEN.”ACHTENBERG’S NFIRMATN BEME A MOBILIZG MOMENT FOR THE LGBTQ+ MOVEMENT. “EVERYBODY KNEW I ULD NOT GO DOWN,” SHE SAYS. “IT FELT LIKE WE HAD TO DO WHATEVER TOOK TO W.” VICE PRINT AL GORE WAS ON STANDBY SE HE WAS NEED TO BREAK A TIE ON THE FLOOR, BUT ON MAY 24, 1993, ACHTENBERG WON 51 TO 34, WH A NUMBER OF “CHICKENS” NOT VOTG.ACHTENBERG LOOKS BACK WH PRI. “IT HURT EPLY TO BE LLED ALL KDS OF NAM. HELMS QUTNED THE LEGIMACY OF MY RELATNSHIP WH MY FAY. HE SAID I WAS UNF. THEY QUTNED WHETHER I ULD UPHOLD THE CONSTUTN, AS IF BEG GAY MEANT YOU WERE NOT A PATRT. BUT WE PREVAILED, AND ’S THANKS TO PEOPLE LIKE DAVID AND HILARY AND THE VICTORY FUND WHO STUCK THEIR NECKS OUT. IT’S EASIER NOW, AND WE’RE GLAD OF .”‍ALLAN SPEAR’S HUMAN RIGHTS ACT PASSSEN. ALLAN SPEAR THERE WAS A PERD OF TIME -- JT BEFORE AND AFTER THE STONEWALL RTS 1969 -- WHEN ACTIVISTS WERE RISG UP AGAST THE VIETNAM WAR AND TRANSFORMG CIVIL RIGHTS TO NEW LIBERATN MOVEMENTS WHERE GAYS AND LBIANS WERE NSIRED A LEGIMATE MORY STEAD OF PATHOLOGIL PERVERTS. SOME OF THOSE ACTIVISTS, LIKE YALE UNIVERSY PHD GRADUATE ALLAN SPEAR, CHOSE TO MAKE CHANGE LEGISLATIVELY. SPEAR WAS ELECTED TO THE MNOTA STATE SENATE 1972, G OUT 1974, JT A MONTH AFTER ELAE NOBLE BEME THE FIRST OUT LGBTQ+ PERSON ELECTED TO A STATE LEGISLATURE. HE SERVED TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS THE SENATE, CLUDG EIGHT YEARS AS PRINT UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT 2000. THE HIGHLIGHT OF HIS REER WAS WORKG WHOUT HOE REP. KAREN CLARK ON PASSAGE OF THE 1993 MNOTA HUMAN RIGHTS ACT, GIVG GAY RINTS PROTECTN OM DISCRIMATN TN, EMPLOYMENT, AND HOG. THE BILL HAD BEEN ON THE TABLE FOR TWENTY YEARS.“I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE SERVED WH ME—EHER LLEAGU OR STAFF PEOPLE, LOBBYISTS SOME S, WHO HAVE TOLD ME THAT THEY HAVE CHANGED THEIR VIEWS ON GAY ISSU OVER THE YEARS BEE I WAS THE ONLY GAY PERSON THEY EVER KNEW,” SPEAR TOLD “OUT AND ELECTED THE USA: 1974–2004” FOR HE WAS SEEN AS A “PRODUCTIVE HUMAN BEG” AND “THEY VELOPED NEW IAS AND NEW ATTUS ABOUT WHAT GAY PEOPLE ARE AND HOW GAY PEOPLE BEHAVE BEE OF THAT.” COMG OUT HAS AN IMPACT. “I’VE ALWAYS ARGUED THAT G OUT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT POLIL CISN THAT ANY GAY PERSON N EVER MAKE. WE THK OF OFTEN AS PERSONAL RATHER THAN A POLIL CISN, BUT ALSO HAS THIS REALLY PROFOUND POLIL IMPACT ON THE PEOPLE AROUND AND OUR OWN SOCIETY,” SAID SPEAR, WHO PASSED AWAY ON OCTOBER 11, NATNAL COMG OUT DAY, 2008. HE WAS SURVIVED BY HIS PARTNER OF 20-PL YEARS, JUNJIRO TSUJI.‍LGBTQ+ VICTORY INSTUTE FOUND

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GAY RIGHTS MAY BE SOCIAL ISSUE OF 1990S

Lbians have not been subject to the law the same way as gay men although is clear that the impact of legislatn agast men has had nsequenc for women terms of for example, herance, marriage and ed the way they lived their liv.

Honours: The Law and the Emergence of Lbian and Gay Cultural Interventns Wtern AtraliaChapter 1: The LawMany still remember the days when nsensual sex between men was illegal, and gay men were regularly charged and nvicted for offenc such as sodomy, gross cency and cent asslt arisg out of their nsensual sexual activy.

A DOZEN MAJOR GROUPS HELP DRIVE THE RELIG RIGHT’S ANTI-GAY CSA

Courty of Print Bill Clton Whe HoeIn April 1993, LGBTQ+ lears cludg Victory Fund executive director William Waybourn were ved to a historic meetg wh Print Clton the Oval Office jt before the March on Washgton for Lbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberatn.

And Dan Savage, a sex-advice lumnist then only known to rears of a few pennt alt-newspapers around the untry, was pable of makg breakout news wh a sndalo revelatn: Mattel’s latt Ken doll, part of the Earrg Magic le of Barbie toys, was openly moled on gay fashn.