The book featur gay marriage, hs out at slavery and imperialism and predicts the climate crisis – 200 years after the birth of s thor, Herman Melville, has never been more important
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MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST
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They selected October bee public schools are ssn and existg tradns, such as Comg Out Day (October 11), occur that and Lbian History Month was endorsed by GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign, the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force, the Natnal Edutn Associatn and other natnal anizatns. It featured the romantic edy movie ‘Four Weddgs and a Funeral’, an appropriate choice as Aun was gay and the fictnal funeral the film was for a gay man.