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❤️ Red stands for Love & Life in the #PrideFlag. 🏳️🌈   We’re honoring Barbara Gittings (1932-2007), widely considered the mother of the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement.    In 1958, Barbara started the New York chapter of Daughters of Bilitis (DOB), the first lesbian civil rights organization in the U.S. She also served as editor of the DOB’s publication, The Ladder, the first national lesbian magazine.    Barbara and fellow organizer Frank Kameny waged a multi-year campaign for the declassification of homosexuality as a mental disorder. In 1973, with Gitting and Kameny present by invitation, the American Psychiatric Association announced the removal of its classification.   To learn more, visit https://lnkd.in/e3uftg8P

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