Michael Waters reviews Jam Kirchick’s book “Secret Cy: The Hidn History of Gay Washgton,” which chronicl the panic over queer polil fluence Washgton, D.C., om the Princy of Frankl D. Roosevelt to that of Bill Clton.
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WHAT MA WASHGTON, D.C., THE “GAYT AND MOST ANTIGAY CY AMERI”
But ’s also a time to honor the people who have paved the way for gay rights activism, like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, along wh Rivera, was a central figure the begng of the gay liberatn movement of the 1970s the Uned Stat.
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