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The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage.

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"We jt wanted to make sure that the world saw the most posive si of beg a gay uple. AdvertisementSKIP Jimenez for The New York TimMay 16, 2015MINNEAPOLIS — Long before the fight over same-sex marriage began earnt, long before gay upl began lg up for marriage licens, Jack Baker and Michael McConnell cid to year was 1967. Homosexualy was still classified as a disorr, sodomy was illegal nearly every state, and most gay men and lbians lived fearful om the age of 14, eyeg young men his father’s barbershop, Mr.

Lynn uple, now their early 70s, spoke this month a rare terview the hoe they share here, nearly half a century after they joed their liv and earned a place the history of gay rights, helpg to make Mnota an early center of gay Baker said he was proud that the Supreme Court this year heard the very same nstutnal arguments of equal protectn and due procs that he had intified as a law stunt 2013, when the Mnota Legislature thorized same-sex marriage and a state senator announced, “Today, love ws, ” Mr. ”For a time the early 1970s, the two had starrg natnal rol as spokmen for gay equaly, pecially Mr. 26, 1971, issue on “The Amerin Fay, ” they were featured as “The Homosexual Couple.

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”“Some homosexuals — a mory — live together stable, often long-lastg relatnships, like Baker’s and McConnell’s, ” the article Mr. Baker was elected 1971 as the openly gay stunt-body print of the Universy of Mnota, Walter Cronke reported on the nightly news.

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