By Jessica Dickinson Goodman

In the past 30 days, according to The New York Times, American homosexuals have shouted at a gubernatorial candidate on the street, forced the American Medical Association into private session, published theses and books, debated the "frivolous"ness of their rights with U.N. Youth Assembly delegates, been the subject of a positive resolution at the Lutheran Church in America's biennial convention, a negative note from a Vatican aide.

And perhaps most powerfully, they marched.  

"Thousands of young men and women homosexuals from all over the Northeast marched from Greenwich Village to the Sheep Meadow in Central Park yesterday proclaiming 'the new strength and pride of the gay people.'"

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