Barbara Gittings: Mother of the Gay Rights Movement
Barbara Gittings was an admirer of books. She understood, since early on, that she additionally cherished young ladies. So when, in 1949, she left Wilmington, Delaware to go to Northwestern University, she did what any academic youthful lesbian would do: investigate homosexuality in the school’s library. What Gittings found was not ameliorating. By far most […]