Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wide-ranging address before 125 people on the political status of the gay rights movement, Frank, one of the nation's two openly gay members of Congress, said that recent federal legislation has prevented AIDS from being used as the basis for discrimination against gays...
...most important peice of pending federal gay rights legislation, Frank said, is the repeal of the McCarren-Walter Act. The act, which bars anarchists, communists and people carrying communicable diseases from entering the United States, also includes a provision excluding gays and lesbians, Frank said...
Noting growing support for his efforts to overturn the act, Frank predicted that "by the end of this Congress, we will have repealed the anti-gay and lesbian exclusion of the McCarren-Walter...
Frank also said Saturday that he took exception to what he characterized as the negative tenor of gay rights political organizing, and said he wished organizations would stress the accomplishments of the gay rights movement...
...Today we still have anti-gay and lesbian policies, but they are in retreat," Frank said. "I believe that prejudice is eroding, although it's not eroding nearly fast enough...