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Stand Up and Be Counted: Women and Social Justice in Michigan (1960-1985)

“Gay Rights Protest”

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Contributor
Cecil Lockard, photographer
Coverage
Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1984
Creator
Cecil Lockard, photographer
Date
March 9, 1984
Description
“GAY RIGHTS PROTEST: Student protestors covered their heads with grocery bags Friday, as they marched around campus to demonstrate for gay rights. Their hour-long protest was silent, but slogans on their bags proclaimed, ‘Let me out of the closet.’ The 12-member group briefly occupied the office of U-M President Harold T. Shapiro. Shapiro was out of town, but the protestors left a message: ‘We won't be silent anymore and we will be back.’ For more than a year, gay men and lesbians on campus have been pressuring U-M for a policy to prohibit discrimination against homosexuals” (Caption).
Format
Digital file containing duplication of print newspaper
Identifier
https://aadl.org/sites/default/files/photos/N124_0194_015.jpg
Language
English
Publisher
The Ann Arbor News archives, courtesy of oldnews.aadl.org
Relation
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
Rights
The Ann Arbor News
Source
The Ann Arbor News
Subject
Gay, lesbian, LGBTQ
Title
“Gay Rights Protest”
Type
Newspaper photograph

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