by Evelyn Bailey
From the very beginning of time, women have been viewed as the “weaker” sex. However, when you look at the women who wrote our history with their lives, they can hardly be identified as “weak”!
The women involved in the gay history of Rochester in the 1970s came out of a closeted frightened homosexual culture. Community meeting places consisted of bars that were commonly raided by police once a month on average, with those arrested exposed in newspapers.
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The following news items were taken from the February and March 1971 editions of the Empty Closet.
Gay People vs State Assembly
Reported by Bob Osborne
Three members of the Rochester gay community (Bob Osborne, R.J. Alcala, and Marshall Goldman) addressed the Special Committee on Discrimination Against Homosexuals, of the New York State Assembly in its first (ever) public hearings January 7 in New York City.
Assembly men present for the hearings were Stephen Solarz (Brooklyn) and Tonly Olivieri and Franz Leichter (both Manhattan).
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