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Were you arrested? Yeah. And? That was my first arrest ever in my life. Boston Debbie

The best thing was that one of the things we've been told that civil disobedience training

was to be prepared for this kind of long time in jail. And so I had followed instructions

and brought two peanut butter sandwiches and a book to read. And they let me keep them.

I'm Eric Marcus and this is Making Gay History. Activists are made, not born. But the

Anne Northrop I've known for the past three and a half decades is such a natural. I can

almost imagine that she entered the world clutching a baby bullhorn. Anne was a confident,

high-achieving kid from the start with an innate gift for leadership. Loud, but out and

proud? That came later. As fierce and fearless as Anne appeared even then, she kept her sexuality

as secret. I don't remember how Anne and I first met, but it seems inevitable that our paths

would cross. Without knowing it, I'd been following in Anne's footsteps for years. I attended

the Vassar College a decade after she did. And at different times, we both worked at ABC's Good

Morning America and CBS Morning News, where Anne eventually rose to become a coordinating producer.

But by the time I interviewed Anne for my Making Gay History book, she'd left her enviable career

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