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<text id=93TT1637>
<title>
May 10, 1993: After the March Is Over
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
May 10, 1993 Ascent of a Woman: Hillary Clinton
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK
SOCIETY, Page 25
After the March Is Over
</hdr>
<body>
<p> A flurry of incidents shows that gay rights have a way to
go
</p>
<p> The peaceful march through Washington of hundreds of
thousands of gay-and-lesbian-rights protesters seemed to its
participants to be the kind of civil rights milestone that would
touch all Americans. When the marchers dispersed and returned
to their homes around the country, however, many found that it
had moved their fellow citizens but not necessarily as intended.
In Tampa, Florida, Darlene DeBerry came back to find that an
arsonist had burned her trailer home to the ground. A few days
before leaving for Washington, DeBerry had received a
threatening phone call: "If you march, your house will torch."
In Melbourne, Iowa, Mayor Bill Crews' house was vandalized, and
the words GET OUT and MELBOURNE HATES GAYS were spray-painted
on the walls. A column Crews wrote for the Des Moines Register
announcing his homosexuality had appeared the day of the march.
Aboard a Dallas-bound American Airlines flight carrying marchers
from Washington, attendants used blankets to mop up a food
spill. An airline staffer then mistakenly sent an internal
message suggesting that the blankets had been changed for fear
of spreading AIDS. Airline officials called the message "totally
inappropriate," explaining that the employee had not realized
that the blankets were soiled with mere food.
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</body>
</article>
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