Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Noon and the sun shining. It could have been May Day except for the colored leaves. No speakers in sight. Only a crowd patiently sitting in front of a small platform. A colorful sign for gay liberation. A stark black and white one: "Free Bobby and Erika." That was what it was supposed to be all about. But you might not have known...
...professional journal of police science, Jack may have gone uncaught, but his identity was known to Scotland Yard: "He was the heir to power and wealth. His grandmother, who outlived him, was very much the stern Victorian matriarch . . . His father, to whose title he was the heir, was a gay cosmopolitan and did much to improve the status of England internationally...
...returned pronouncing it ripe for electoral conquest. The G.L.F. began stockpiling food, negotiating to buy land in Alpine, and signing up recruits for the exodus-nearly 500 have enlisted so far. In an article in the Los Angeles Free Press, G.L.F. Leader Don Jackson wrote glowingly of "a gay civil service, gay housing erected with funds furnished by the state and federal governments, and the world's first museum of gay arts, sciences and history...
...Gay Way. The residents of Alpine County are not amused, and so far are in a quandary about how to repel the onslaught. Last week they awoke to find their street signs altered by youthful pranksters to accommodate the prospective new citizens. One highway sign warned: "Watch for deer-hit a queer." The main thoroughfare of Markleeville, the county seat, was marked "Gay Way," and the tavern dubbed "Fairyland...
Many natives believe the gay invaders will be defeated by the subfreezing temperatures and the lack of jobs. Nonetheless, a delegation of Alpine's county board of supervisors journeyed to Sacramento to meet with Governor Ronald Reagan's Assistant Legal Affairs Secretary Richard Turner. They came away despondent and emptyhanded; Turner advised them that there was nothing they could do to stem the gay tide as long as the G.L.F. complied with...