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libodem

(19,288 posts)
17. I didn't
Thu Nov 15, 2012, 03:41 PM
Nov 2012

I was always down with the gay pride parades but I was clueless on those riots in NY, and that being the beginning of pulling down the walls in that crappy dark, little, closest you guys were shuffled into.

I'm a hetro old lady. But I have an affinity for civil rights for everyone and want to hang out for the enlightenment and learning. I've had some gay friends here and there. I've taken lots of psych and sociology. I read. I dragged out my copy of the "Boys of Boise", so I could tell fightingthegoodfight, I had one.

So glad it is cool to be out and proud these days.

I have some memory of the bad old days cuz I've been around a while to live through the history.

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Straight here.. Permanut Nov 2012 #1
Militant HOMOsexuals who AFFIRMED Queerdom SHOCKED the Straight World fightthegoodfightnow Nov 2012 #4
Fearless is More Like It fightthegoodfightnow Nov 2012 #7
Stonewall truly was a turning point.. Permanut Nov 2012 #9
Agree fightthegoodfightnow Nov 2012 #10
.. Permanut Nov 2012 #11
The number of straight friends is growing Victor_c3 Nov 2012 #16
What is this Stonewall of which you speak libodem Nov 2012 #12
I did libodem Nov 2012 #13
You really didn't know? xfundy Nov 2012 #14
I didn't libodem Nov 2012 #17
Hey libodem! Scruffy Rumbler Nov 2012 #25
Thank YOU So Much For Saying It Far Better Than Me fightthegoodfightnow Nov 2012 #2
diversity is suppposed to be a GOOD thing right? nt msongs Nov 2012 #3
Agree fightthegoodfightnow Nov 2012 #5
good post, loli phabay Nov 2012 #6
Great Post fightthegoodfightnow Nov 2012 #8
The 70's were all about the pride libodem Nov 2012 #15
Gosh, libodem libodem Nov 2012 #18
Yes, you sure do libodem Nov 2012 #19
A little anecdote about 'gay'... Scruffy Rumbler Nov 2012 #26
That is sweet libodem Nov 2012 #27
AIDS Vanje Nov 2012 #28
Wow! fightthegoodfightnow Nov 2012 #30
It Gets Better It-Gets-Better Nov 2012 #20
I clicked the link libodem Nov 2012 #22
Too Bad He Didn't Hear Message It-Gets-Better Nov 2012 #21
oh god libodem Nov 2012 #23
Great post, msongs! Scruffy Rumbler Nov 2012 #24
Agree fightthegoodfightnow Nov 2012 #29
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