The civil rights giant, who died this month, was a fierce and early fenr of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer rights.
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JOHN LEWIS SAW GAY RIGHTS A MOVEMENT LIKE CIVIL RIGHTS
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”A few weeks later, after a state Supreme Court lg, Massachetts beme the first state to regnize gay was an ally of the gay rights movement long before that, said Cathy Woolard, a former Atlanta Cy Council print.
She beme the first openly gay elected official Geia when she was elected the early and mid-1990s, Woolard lobbied for the LGBTQ advocy group the Human Rights Campaign. It was the era of the ary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, when the gay muny had few alli Washgton, even among Democrats.
IS JOHN LEWIS GAY?
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