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Article: Behind enemy lines: on November 3, 1981, gay activist Scott Tucker and friends infiltrated a Jerry Falwell rally in Philadelphia--and lived to tell us the tale.(The Advocate 40th ANNIVERSARY)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- July 3, 2007
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Know the enemy and know yourself, and you need not fear the result of a hundred battles, wrote Chinese general Sun Tzu in 490 B.C. It's good advice that has inspired The Advocate to keep a close eye on such religious conservatives as Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed, Sen. Jesse Helms, and the late televangelist--turned--evangelical politico Jerry Falwell. It was certainly Scott Tucker's motivation for staging a silent protest at a Marriott hotel in Philadelphia, where Falwell was breaking bread with his people.
Here's what he reported to us:
On November 3, 1981, Tucker, with his partner, Larry, and a handful of their friends, "put on fundamentalist ...