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WHAT IT WAS LIKE AT THE FIRST GAY RIGHTS DEMONSTRATN OUTSI WHE HOE 50 YEARS AGO
Pl Kuntzler said that when he picketed the Whe Hoe 50 years ago today, he uld not image how far the gay rights movement would e five s. * washington dc gay protest *
— -- Pl Kuntzler said that when he and ne other people picketed the Whe Hoe 50 years ago today, prottg the ernment's treatment of gays and lbians, he uld not image how far the gay rights movement would e five prott on April 17, 1965, is believed to the first gay rights monstratn, advot say. I was very open and proud of beg gay. ”The group was mostly fightg for gays and lbians to keep their ernment jobs.
Fifty years later, Kuntzler, who spent his life workg for gay rights, is astonished by how the untry has evolved and the stris the muny has ma.
“My sign read, '15 ln homosexuals prott feral treatment. Protters march the first gay rights prott outsi the Whe Hoe Washgton, April 17, NewsThe Washgton rint add: "We uld not nceive then the astonishg progrs we would eventually make as a muny.
The history of Capal Pri and the LGBTQIA pri para Washgton, D.C., starts on June 22, 1975, the first officially regnized “Gay Pri Day” ... * washington dc gay protest *
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