National March! On Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights: Official Souvenir Program Page: 3
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high school proms and fraternity bashes, in churches and synagogues,
and psychiatrist's conventions; in food co-ops, chambers of com-
merce and anti-nuclear demonstrations; in jails and palaces; in Green-
wich Village and Cincinnati; and in Bellows Falls, Vermont.
Our lavender culture memorializes with tears of rage the lives and
deaths of Ovideo Ramos and Richard Heakin; Lydia French and
Carol McEldowney, Mike Silverstein and Ally Amundsen, Robert
Hillsborough and Renee Wagler. We cry out for those who suffer
persecution in Tehran and Havanna, in Buenos Aires and San Fran-
cisco, and we rejoice in the efforts of gay liberationists from Toronto
to Barcelona, from Sao Paulo to Dublin, from Paris to Manila.
Today in the capital of America, we are all here, the almost libera-
ted and the slightly repressed; the butch, the femme and everything
in-between; the androgynous; the monogamous and the promiscuous;
the masturbators and the fellators and the tribadists; men in dresses
and women in neckties; those who bite and those who cuddle; cele-
bates and pederasts; diesel dykes and nelly queens; amazons and size
queens, Yellow, Black, Brown, White, and Red; the shorthaired and
the long, the fat and the thin; the nude and the prude; the beauties
and the beasts; the studs and the duds; the communes, the couples,
and the singles; pubescents and the octogenarians. Yes, we are all
here! We are everywhere! Welcome to the March on Washington for
Lesbian and Gay Rights!
"HARVEY MILK'S BODY"
(Sung to the tune of "John Brown's Body")
Harvey Milk's body lies a-mouldering in the grave,
Working for a better world for us his life hlie gave.
Now we march together, no his death won't be in vain,
For a gay rights bill we'll gain.
We will end discrimination
With appropriate legislation.
We're the glory of our nat.on.
Ian White won't tread on us.
Lesbian and gay youth are entitled to their rights,
Oppression and harrassment make their lives a heavy plight.
We'll be there to help them in obtaining their gay rights
And sexual liberty.
We will end discrimination
With appropriate legislation.
We're the glory of our nation.
Anita won't tread on us.
In military gay andt straight are marching side by side,
But to avoid dishonor gays have all been forced to hide.
In government only closet homosexuals survive.
Closed doors we'll open wide.
We will end discrimination
With appropriate legislation.
We're the glory of our nation.
The laws will change with us.
There is no great endeavor that our gay strength won't enhance.
So why should we be barred from self-expression and romance
Jimiiy you plead human rights, well here's a perfect chance
Witli an order you'll prove your stance.
We will end discrimination
Witli appropriate legislation.
We're the glory of our nation.
And remember in November we vote.
fie Maila. ("'le. and ihh f telu' Slogan ornminiee
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D.C. Media Committee. National March! On Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights: Official Souvenir Program, pamphlet, 1979; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc276226/m1/5/: accessed June 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.