Word: mcneer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...original agenda for Houston, but under the rules any subject had to be considered if ten or more state conventions asked for it. The demand for a lesbian rights provision came thundering down from no fewer than 36 state conventions. "It was obviously a grass-roots movement," says Lenore McNeer, who chaired the Vermont delegation and was one of the delegates who felt that lesbian rights is a civil liberties issue inappropriate to the agenda of a women's rights convention. But in the interest of unity, the less radical women persuaded themselves to pass the homosexual rights resolution...