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5 • Happy Pride! 🌈

5 • Happy Pride! 🌈

Wisdom and inspiration from Jane Fonda, a tireless activist from the 1970’s to today.

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Faruk Ateş
Jun 03, 2023
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Midjourney rendering for "Jane Fonda in front of a rainbow on fields of glitter"

This week I saw Jane Fonda at the Castro Theater talk about her life as an activist, starting in the 1970’s and continuing stronger every still today, age 85. She is a legend. It started with a 1979 interview clip about why Jane was supporting gays & lesbians. Her answer, explaining the very real and harmful discrimination and oppression LGBT people faced, was profound, insightful, and subversive even by today’s standards. And this was 44 years ago.

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