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A Woman to Know: Barbara Gittings

A Woman to Know: Barbara Gittings

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Julia Carpenter
Jun 28, 2019
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Equality means more than passing laws. — Barbara Gittings

(image via The New York Public Library)


In one of the first-ever gay rights demonstrations of the 1960s, Barbara Gittings carried a hand-lettered sign, now installed in the Smithsonian: "Homosexuals should be judged as individuals."

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