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100% Irish: Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston (GLIB)
The story of a gay, lesbian, and bisexual Irish American (GLIB) group’s fight in the mid-90’s to march in South Boston’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
Morally Clean and Straight: Boy Scouts of America v. Wyman
David Knapp, now 81, was expelled from the Boy Scouts after a lifetime of scouting and service when the organization “discovered” he was gay. In the late 1990’s, lawsuits all over the country challenged the Boy Scouts’ discrimination against gay men and youth. GLAD engaged in one of the few successful suits, Boy Scouts of America v. Wyman in Connecticut, in which the Scouts were barred from a state employee fund-raising campaign because their anti-gay policy violates the state’s non-discrimination law. Morally Clean and Straight features interviews with David Knapp and GLAD senior attorney Jennifer Levi.
Bryant, Byrne, The BPL: The Sick, The Bad, The Ugly
In 1978, in the midst of a national wave of anti-gay sentiment spurred on by orange juice spokeswoman Anita Bryant, the gay community’s response to police entrapment in the bathrooms of the Boston Public Library led to the founding of a gay and lesbian legal rights organization.