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gay liberation movement

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Noun1.gay liberation movement - the movement aimed at liberating homosexuals from legal or social or economic oppression
crusade, campaign, cause, drive, effort, movement - a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported populist campaigns"; "they worked in the cause of world peace"; "the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant"; "the movement to end slavery"; "contributed to the war effort"


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If you believe, as do, that the modern gay liberation movement was made possible by the triumph of science over religion, the news from Washington could hardly be worse.
Jakobsen and Kennedy's well-written and insightful essay, "Sex and Freedom," draws associations between the gay liberation movement and the Civil Rights Movement, and how they tackle social policy.
She then explores the sexual revolution in a series of chapters on the 1960s and 1970s that look at sexual rhetoric in student protests, the emergence of a gay liberation movement in Lawrence, and the rise of feminism in the local context.
 
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