Barbara Gittings was unafraid. The iconic lesbian activist lived her life trying to make things better for the LGBTQ community in a time when being open and visible didn’t come easy. Pride50
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“She was one of the rare people in the homophile movement — before Stonewall — who took a militant stance,” David Carter, the author of “Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution,"following Gittings' death."And she not only took a militant stance, but she was in the forefront.”
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