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While male sex workers were combating police enforcement of sodomy laws, particularly more so within the 1970s, they tried to fight for their rights by way of the judicial system. As managing editor of the college newspaper at the University of Oregon in the early 1970s, Randy Shilts made a daring, courageous move for the occasions: He openly declared that he was gay. The NAACP, the main African-American civil rights group, has pledged its support for gay rights and identical-sex marriage, stating that they "help marriage equality per equal safety underneath the legislation offered beneath the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution", and has declared that very same-sex marriage is a civil right. Notable gay writers of the 1950s and 1960s who explored male homosexuality in their work included James Baldwin, John Rechy and Allen Ginsberg. Who the hell declared a peaceful world dull and unrealistic? People who really feel a part of this world haven't any must invent others! |
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