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25 Years of Gay Rights in New York

It's the silver anniversary of the passage of New York City's gay and lesbian rights bill. The City Council adopted it 21-14 on March 21, 1986, and Mayor Ed Koch signed it into law on April 2. A quarter of a century ago sounds like a long time in the past, but New York was actually one of the last big American cities to pass such a bill, even though the concept of adding "sexual orientation" to non-discrimination laws was dreamt up here by the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) in 1971. The bill was on the verge of passage in 1974, but after a vicious smear campaign by New York's Catholic Archdiocese and the firefighters union, it became the first measure in the Council's history to clear committee only to lose on the floor, when even some sponsors voted against it. Full Story From Gay City News posted on http://www.gayapolis.com/news