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Five months before his assassatn 1978, Harvey Milk lled on the print of the Uned Stat to fend the rights of gay and lbian Amerins.

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AMERI’S MOST IMPORTANT GAY-RIGHTS SPEECH?

No one anticipated , but Print Barack Obama ed the ocsn of his send Ingural Addrs to give what was perhaps the most important gay-rights … * famous gay speeches *

No one anticipated , but Print Barack Obama ed the ocsn of his send Ingural Addrs to give what was perhaps the most important gay-rights speech Amerin history.

Print Obama ed the ocsn to make the first direct reference to gay-rights an Ingural Addrs, and he did so wh a power and forthrightns we have not heard before, even om two-thirds of the way to the speech, Obama referred to Stonewall, a gay bar where, 1969, a police raid provoked a rt, the same sentence as Sene Falls and Selma—th parg the women’s and Ain-Amerin civil-rights movements to the gay-rights stggle. Had he stopped there, would have been historic—particularly g om the first Ain-Amerin Print—but, keepg wh the tradn of policians who refer to gay-rights obliquely or wh words, stoppg short of the Print ntued:Our journey is not plete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else unr the law—for if we are tly created equal, then surely the love we m to one another mt be equal as only was this a ll to end discrimatn, but an unambiguo argument for the regnn of same-sex marriage across the untry.

HARVEY MILK’S GAY FREEDOM DAY SPEECH: ANNOTATED

Print Obama’s send Ingural was evince of that, but more strikgly was evince of a newfound willgns to lead the untry more dramatilly to the future on gay equaly. Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, a former Icelandic Prime Mister and the first openly gay head of state, uttered the words durg a speech at a 2014 Pri ftival.

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