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About 200 students at Bucks County Community College held a protest after the college canceled a planned speech by gay rights activist Dick Leitsch.
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Bucks County Community College
Community college in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Bucks County Community College (Bucks) is a public community college in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1964, Bucks has three campuses and online courses: a main campus in Newtown, an "Upper Bucks" campus in the town of Perkasie, and a "Lower Bucks" campus in the town of…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
1968 Bucks County Community College protest
1968 gay rights protest in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
On May 9, 1968, a group of up to 200 students at Bucks County Community College in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, protested the cancelation by the college president of a planned speech by gay rights activist Dick Leitsch scheduled at the campus later that day. The protest,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Dick Leitsch
American gay rights activist (1935–2018)
Richard Joseph Leitsch, also known as Richard Valentine Leitsch and more commonly Dick Leitsch, was an American LGBT rights activist. He was president of gay rights group the Mattachine Society in the 1960s. He conceptualized and led the "Sip-In" at Julius' Bar, one of the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)