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What can we learn from the gay rights struggle of the 1970s? Don't give up the fight!

What can we learn from the gay rights struggle of the 1970s? Don't give up the fight!

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Pamela Powers
Sep 08, 2010
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What have we learned in the past 33 years? Apparently not much in the brotherly love category. Far too many of us are easily manipulated by hatred and fear ginned up by right-wingers and Christian zealots.

Last night I watched Milk, the 2008 movie about activist Harvey Milk (above), the first openly gay man to hold a major elected office, a position on t…

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