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ACLU’s gay history
Fifty years in, a look back at the Michigan chapter’s fights for LGBT rights
Originally printed 3/11/2010 (Issue 1810 – Between The Lines News)
In 1966, Michigan’s gay community faced many challenges. Undercover police officers regularly baited and arrested men in prostitution stings at gay pickup areas. Raids on downtown Detroit gay bars were frequent and their owners felt harassed. The gay community was fearful. Yet there was one organization willing to fight: the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan.
“Miranda rights weren’t being read to people,” said Rolland O’Hare, ACLU of Michigan’s first chairman from 1961 to 1966. “Once someone was arrested, there was no appointment of counsel. It made sense to stay in the closet.”
That same year, O’Hare was approached by a man denied a promotion at a local automotive assembly plant because fellow employees refused to work for a “queer.” O’Hare, a practicing labor attorney, recalls that the discrimination the gay community experienced in those days was not immediately obvious to the ACLU.

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