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The homophile movement of the 1950s was followed by the gay liberation movement of the 1970s.—Caren Cooper, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2014 With the rise of the fledgling homophile movement in the 1950s, activists began publicly contemplating the idea.—New York Times, 30 May 2021
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