We were 'here, queer and weren't gonna take it anymore' and all that.
"Paul Barwick" (born 1946) is an American former LGBT rights activist and same-sex marriage pioneer. In 1971, he filed one of the first lawsuits in the history of the United States regarding the right of gays and lesbians to marry, after he and fellow activist Faygele Ben-Miriam/John Singer were denied a civil marriage marriage license/license at the King County Administration Building in Seattle, Washington (state)/Washington. The case, Singer v. Hara, was the best-known gay marriage case in the state of Washington until Andersen v. King County in 2006.
Born in Washington, Barwick served three years in the United States Army/U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, working as a Military Police Corps (United States)/military policeman. Later, he became an emergency dispatcher for the Washington State Patrol, and attended Olympic College in Bremerton, Washington/Bremerton. He currently lives in San Francisco, California, his residence for the last 30 years.
More Paul Barwick on Wikipedia.Now it's a serious question. Back then it was a lark — a way of getting people to realize there were gays here. We were an invisible minority. I never thought we could get this far, this fast.
We went to court, got turned down. Went to court, got turned down. It [suing] all sounded good on paper. But who were we kidding?
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