A Woman to Know: Barbara Gittings
Equality means more than passing laws. — Barbara Gittings
(image via The New York Public Library)
In one of the first-ever gay rights demonstrations of the 1960s, Barbara Gittings carried a hand-lettered sign, now installed in the Smithsonian: "Homosexuals should be judged as individuals."
Add to your library list:
Barbara Gittings: Gay Pioneer (Tracy Baim)
Profiles in Gay and Lesbian Courage (Troy D. Perry)
Read more:
How Barbara Gittings became the mother of a movement (The Advocate)
Barbara Gittings, 74, Prominent Gay Rights Activist Since the 50s, Dies (The New York Times)
Fifty years later, Philadelphia celebrates heroes of the gay rights movement (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen Gay History Papers (The New York Public Library)
Pioneer lesbian activist gets the biography she deserves (Slate)
Barbara Gittings (LGBT History Month)
Barbara Gittings (The San Francisco Public Library)
Barbara Gittings Way to be dedicated (Philly Magazine)
Listen more:
Gittings & Lahusen (Making Gay History)
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