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Homophile Community Mobilizes

The defiant actions of the CRH clergy and the resultant public debate galvanized gay and lesbian leaders and organizations to new levels of activism and resistance to oppression by police and city government. A new organization, Society for Individual Rights, formed around the same time as CRH and, with more grass roots emphasis than some earlier homophile groups, began its rapid rise to become one of the preeminent gay rights groups of the late 1960s.

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