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Six months of heightened fear and ictn between ps and the gay muny followed.

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FREE: A LOOK TO THE BEGNG OF GAY RIGHTS MNEAPOLIS

* gay history in mn *

A month before the Stonewall rts New York Cy, “The Homosexual* Revolutn” started Mneapolis. It began as an rmal class, tled the “Homosexual Revolutn, ” at a ffee shop May of 1969.

Koreen Phelps and Stephen Irhig talked about “homosexuals’” role the sexual revolutn and ed the class to nnect wh gay people their muny.

MNEAPOLIS MURRS 1990S TARGETED GAYS

“Bee of their vulnerabily, Irhig and Miss Phelps have asked other homosexuals to band together, ” the Mnota Daily reported on June 6, 1969.

“This group that they created was created out of love and passn, ” said Noah Barth, public historian and creator of the documentary “FREE You: Mnota’s Fight for Gay Liberatn. Pl mp, but after the Board of Regents found out that McConnell was gay, they took the job offer back.

A SHORT HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS THE U.S. AND MNOTA

In 1970, they sent out letters to several large rporatns askg if they’d hire a “homosexual” person. Honeywell said they would not knowgly hire someone who was gay. FREE then began lobbyg the Universy to bar not only Honeywell om recg stunts, but any anizatn that discrimated agast “homosexual” people.

What began as two gay iends searchg for a muny veloped to a group that would fluence LGBTQ activists for years to e.

“The difference between a gay person and a hip gay person is self-acceptance. *The Mnota Daily has chosen to e the word “homosexual” some plac throughout this article to thentilly reprent how the origal activists FREE scribed themselv. The inti the LGBTQIA acronym — lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex, and asexual — are relatively recent ventns.

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