ridingthewalrus: life: Not published in LIFE. Gay rights…

ridingthewalrus:

life:

Not published in LIFE. Gay rights event, 1971.

In late 1971, two years after the Stonewall riots in New York sparked the modern gay rights movement in America, and twelve months before LIFE ceased publishing as a weekly, the magazine featured an article on “gay liberation” that, seen a full 40 years later, feels sensational, measured and somehow endearingly, deeply square all at the same time.

Read more here.

Hug a Homosexual. Life Magazine.

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