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"People are beginning to realise," the doorman of the Stonewall Inn observed a few days after the riot, "that no matter how 'nelly' or how 'fem' a homosexual is, you can only push them so far." --
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When Clinton took office, members of that community still faced a host of legal and cultural barriers. Sodomy laws banned same-sex acts, even in the privacy of one's bedroom, in more than half of the country's states plus the nation's capital.
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We are following the blacks ... And we will follow, entering, perhaps, the same time as women.
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