Evie Litwok — a formerly incarcerated queer activist, lesbian and daughter of Holocaust survivors — has only been out of prison for five years. Litwok was arrested in 1997 on allegations of tax evasion, during a legislative climate that recently supported the Defense of Marriage Act, which illegitimized same-sex marriage, and “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”...
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