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A SLOW BUT STEADY HISTORY: GAY RIGHTS AT UND ARCS TOWARD JTICE

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Silverste’s activism helped prompt the eventual removal of homosexualy as a medil disorr diagnosis. Activists cred wh growg their ranks, make their markFor most of s history, discrimatn and anti-gay laws were the norm the Uned Stat.

In D Mo, Iowa on October 27, 1977, Ana Bryant and other members of the "Save Our Children Campaign" held a prs nference. Bryant, a former orange juice spokwoman and bety queen was a major figurehead the mpaign agast gay rights, particularly the Florida anti-discrimatn... * tom higgins gay *

Homosexualy was classified as a mental disorr, and before 1961, every state crimalized sodomy.

The laws were ed to jtify sweeps of spected gay bars and public parks, and LGBTQ people risked public huiatn, job loss, and even crimal prosecutn for their gay and lbian groups that emerged durg the 1950s and 1960s did publicly prott anti-LGBTQ discrimatn.

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