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1972 in LGBT rights

12 — Delegates Jim Foster and Madeline Davis become the first openly LGBT people to address a major U.S. political party's convention at the 1972 Democratic National Convention.

Madeline Davis

As part of the Political Action Committee of Mattachine, she confronted the Buffalo Vice Squad on the issue of entrapment and gay bar raids.

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She is a founding member of Spiderwoman Coven, an all women's Wiccan spiritual circle, and has performed Wiccan rituals for local spiritual events.

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