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Homosexuality is an enigma.

Given in the Sierra of old sexual morays, it remains a subject that people find disturbing and embarrassing.

There is a growing concern about homosexuals in society, about their increasing visibility.

The Queens were the only ones that ever fought.

The Queens were the only ones that made the bars that the rest of us could sneak into.

And we could be gay for one night.

The dilemma of the homosexual, told by the medical profession, he is sick.

By the law, that is a criminal.

We're going to do things, it's demonstrating very picket signs and be like,

God, Dr. King, and take over, you know what I mean?

When I'm sitting here and closet anymore and play bingo, we can go out and do stuff and take over the world and change everything.

One by employers rejected by heterosexual society.

I think it takes a lot of courage and I think a lot of people who do it and will suffer the cover.

But I think any movement needs a 13-year-old girl, courageous, martyred.

At the center of his life, he remains anonymous, a displaced person, and outsider.

It was the match that started the Renaissance of awakening, if you will, we stood up and were counted.

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