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Militant LGBTQ+ rights group 'the Lavender Panthers' was founded on this day in 1973

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By Abi Inman
| WUOM-FM (Ann Arbor, MI) Verified
When Ray Broshears, a gay preacher in San Francisco, started a street vigilante group to protect the LGBTQ+ people in the Tenderloin neighborhood, he told a reporter he wanted to frighten "all those young punks who have been beating up my f*****s." This was back in 1973, but even then, "Reverend Ray" was a problematic, controversial figure, and not just for his militant tactics.
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