homophile

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But the homophile movement had been making a lot of progress before Stonewall, and they kept on making the progress.

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  1. adjective Gay or lesbian.
  2. adjective Actively concerned with the rights of gay men or lesbians.

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  • That any gay leader would buy the line that Robinson was "accidentally" censored is the same self-effacing crap more worthy of the pre-Stonewall homophile movement, than of a people who see themselves as at least equals of their homophobic opponents. —  Indybay newswire
  • He used the homophile cast and crew of the pageant as complicit agents. —  Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy
  • But the homophile movement had been making a lot of progress before Stonewall, and they kept on making the progress. —  Democracy Now!
  • She was already an activist in the nascent "homophile" movement. —  About.com Lesbian Life
  • National Association for Women, which created enmity between them and other lesbians who felt they were abandoning the homophile movement by aligning themselves with the women's liberationists. —  xml's Blinklist.com
 

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