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Maureen Duffy on Becoming Britain's First Out Woman in Public Life
The following essay by English gay rights activist and novelist Maureen Duffy is from Pride: The Story of the LGBTQ Equality Movement, a new book by Matthew Todd, the former editor of Attitude magazine. Excerpted with permission from Weldon Owen.When I first came out to myself in the early 1960s, both gay men and gay women were very much in the closet.