Elaine Noble, the first openly gay or lesbian candidate elected to a state office (in 1974, as a state representative in Massachusetts), was reflecting on LGBT progress in a 2012 interview. She was undoubtedly being too modest.
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Barbara Gittings was a key figure in the campaign to persuade mental health groups to declassify homosexuality as a disorder. She also participated in one of the first gay rights demonstrations at the White House, in 1965, calling for an end to antigay discrimination in federal employment. She’s often called the mother of the gay rights movement.
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Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon were some of the earliest lesbian activists; they helped found the nation’s first lesbian political and social organization, the Daughters of Bilitis, in the 1950s. Their activism continued for decades and they became the first same-sex couple to marry in California.
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