Daily News | The day Philly’s radical lesbians took on City Hall
when they saw the words “lesbian hotline” in the 1970s feminist magazine WICCA. Inspired by the phrase and aware of how much history remained undocumented, Benjamin designed lavender fliers featuring a landline
That 1975 day at City Hall remains seared in the minds of those who were there.
Bruised and in shock, the group went directly to the emergency room. Later that day, Bacchetta, Cohen, and four other members of the group, who came to be known as the “Dyketactics 6″ decided to“The city’s lawyers asked us, the DYKETACTICS! plaintiffs, to state whether or not we were lesbians,” Bacchetta wrote later. “In 1976, that simple question was probably the most effective way to discredit our testimony in advance. The media began fairly early on to construct us as insane.
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