by Evelyn Bailey
March is Women’s History Month. We begin with a couple of local Rochestarians, and move on to those who are recognized nationally for their contribution to the gay rights movement.
Dr. Karen Hagberg is a founding member of the Gay Liberation Front at the University of Rochester (UR), precursor to the Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley (GAGV). Karen helped organize the first LGBT Dance at the UR and participated in the first public action for gay rights in Rochester.
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by Evelyn Bailey
A friend of mine, Tilda Hunting, is trying to downsize. In her efforts to accomplish this, she has boxed up a number of books on lesbianism, homosexuality, and the feminist women’s movement. In this collection that she is generously giving to the Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley, there were a number of “newsletters” titled The Ladder; copies of a litereary magazine The 13th Moon; a couple of issues of Community, A Publication by Gay People; published bi-monthly by the Capital District Gay Community Council, Albany, New York; and many more “goodies”.
Given our most recent vote in Connecticut for recognition legally of same sex marriages, I decided to peruse these periodicals for a story about the issue of marriage equality. There in the Amazon Quarterly, Vol.3 #2 was an article titled Womanlove by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon.
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