“Forty years ago, three teen-agers in Philadelphia took an extraordinary step by refusing to take a step. Their sit-in began on Sunday, April 25, 1965, at Dewey’s restaurant near Rittenhouse Square in Center City. According to an account provided several months later by Clark Polak, a gay-rights leader in Philadelphia, ‘the action was a result of Dewey’s refusal to serve a large number of homosexuals and persons wearing non-conformist clothing.’”
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