Gay marriage: The question was on a magazine cover 50 years ago.

[Fridays Child]

I was looking up information on Yaqui matachini dancers, today, and I ran across an article concerning an early gay rights group, The Mattachine Society. It's interesting how views have evolved and how they haven't.

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Fifty years ago this month, on the cover page of the nation’s first major gay magazine, appeared the bold question: Homosexual Marriage? Little did the editors realize that a half-century later this would be a question for national debate.
When the 1951 issue of ONE was published, it was promptly confiscated by Los Angeles postal authorities, who held it up for three weeks for review by official Washington, itself engulfed in the McCarthy hysteria. This was the first of several seizures of gay magazines under 18 U.S.C. 1461 prohibited mailing materials deemed "obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent, filthy or vile," and directing the U.S. Post Office not to convey such material.


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[DBoon]

1. Wasn't Mattachine founded by an ex-Communist

thrown out of the party for being gay?