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Deacon Maccubbin & Jim Bennett

In 1975 Deacon Maccubbin started Washington D.C.’s “Gay Pride Day”. Deacon and his husband Jim Bennett’s LGBTQ+ book store, “Lambda Rising” faced broken windows and bomb threats, due to their involvement, in what is now known 45 years later, as Capital Pride.

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