LGBT Person You Should Know-Barbara Gittings
November 30, 2009
Her Time Made OUR Time Possible…YOUR Time Can Too!
Barbara Gittings-Lesbian Activist. Gittings marched in the first gay picket lines at the White House to protest the federal government’s policy on discrimination of homosexuals, holding a sign that read “Sexual preference is irrelevant to federal employment.”
Gittings met her partner, Kay Tobin Lahusen in 1961 in Rhode Island, they lived, loved, and fought for rights together for 46 years until Gitting’s death in 2007.
As you walk down a street OUT and PROUD, remember your forefathers and mothers who laid that sidewalk down for you.
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