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Butterflies, Whistles, and Fists: Gay Safe Streets Patrols and the New Gay Ghetto, 1976 -- 1981.

The article focuses on the strategies of two patrols during the 1970s, namely the Butterfly Brigade in San Francisco, California's Castro District and the Society to Make America Safe for Homosexuals (SMASH) in Chelsea, New York. It contends that grassroots activism lying outside the orbit usually a...

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Published in:Radical History Review no. 100; pp. 60 - 86
Main Author: Hanhardt, Christina B.
Format: Article
Published: Duke University Press Winter2008
Subjects:
Gay activists
Gay rights movement
Civil rights movements
Homophobia
Inner cities
United States
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