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WOMEN GOT ‘MARRIED’ LONG BEFORE GAY MARRIAGE

From the start of the LGBTQ rights movement the 1970s, Massachetts has been a pneer supportg the LGBTQ muny. Wh s gay-beach mec Pr ... * boston lgbt history *

Wh s gay-beach mec Provcetown to boastg one of the bt Pri Ftivals the untry, Massachetts and s people are known to be some of the most acceptg groups out there. 1978: A group of people led by gay attorney John Ward meets the basement of the Old Wt Church and found GLAD (Gay & Lbian Advot and Defenrs), which is now the pneerg group of lawyers who reprent gay and lbian terts urtPhoto Cred: Charl Dixon, Boston Globe Staff1979: What is now the Fay Equaly Council is formed after a group of gay fathers got together and formed the Gay Fathers Coaln. Knowg that there were other gay dads out there, they were mted to fdg each other and formg a work of support.

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1982: The Boston Gay Men’s Chos is found. 1988: A small group of young people wh gay and lbian parents together while their parents are attendg an annual nference sponsored by the Gay and Lbian Parents Coaln Internatnal (GLPCI – now known as Fay Equaly Council). Humans have a variety of sexual orientatns (gay, straight, bisexual, asexual, queer, etc.

QUILTBAG is an acronym for Queer/Qutng, Uncid, Intersex, Lbian, Transgenr/Transsexual, Bisexuals, Allied/Asexual, Gay/Genrqueer.

Sexual orientatn is fed as a person’s sexual inty relatn to the genr to which they are attracted; the fact of beg heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or asexual. Encyclopedia of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr History AmeriA three-volume survey of more than 400 years of lbian and gay history and culture the Uned Stat, prented through over 500 alphabetilly arranged entri. The Hub of the Gay Universe by Call Number: HQ73.

Explore the many historic and excg statns gay Boston, one of the most LGBT-iendly ci the Uned Stat. From s sential role the Amerin Revolutn to s distctn as the first state to legalize same-sex marriage, gay Boston has a host of attractns that is sure to please any LGBT history buff. The Old State Hoe, Try Church, and the Mm of Fe Arts are among the many world-class statns. Be sure not to miss s lively nightlife that clus mastay bars like Club Café and the Eagle. * boston lgbt history *

And scrib the tragedi: murrs of trans women and gay men, the terrible wav of reprsn of the 1920s, and the vastatn of the AIDS years. H65A3 2007ISBN: 9781558496217Publitn Date: 2007-10-31Boston's weekly Gay Communy News was "the center of the universe" durg the late 1970s, wr Amy Hoffman this memoir of gay liberatn before AIDS, before gay weddgs, and before The L Word.

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