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Contents:
- GAY AND LBIAN DATG & NEW LGBTQ FRIENDS MEETUPS
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
- GAY MEN AND STRAIGHT MEN AS FRIENDS
GAY AND LBIAN DATG & NEW LGBTQ FRIENDS MEETUPS
* gay and lesbian friendship *
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A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
John A. Blando, Twice Hidn: Olr Gay and Lbian Coupl, Friends, and Intimacy, Generatns: Journal of the Amerin Society on Agg, Vol. 25, No. 2, Intimacy and Agg (Summer 2001), pp. 87-89 * gay and lesbian friendship *
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CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
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GAY MEN AND STRAIGHT MEN AS FRIENDS
Her discharge om the ary over her homosexualy had turned her to an Tob/The New York Public LibraryPublished July 19, 2023Updated July 23, 2023Lilli Vcenz, who beme a gay rights activist the hhed, reprsive era before the Stonewall rebelln of 1969, when such a ncept srcely existed, makg a mark as a newspaper edor, documentary filmmaker and psychotherapist voted to L. She was ath, at a re facily, was nfirmed by a niece, Julia Bo, who did not specify a Vcenz’s journey to promence the nascent gay rights movement of the mid-1960s began after a personal llisn wh tolerance.
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