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Deerfield, Ill., resident Marilyn Keller, a long-time member of PFLAG, was in Washington, D.C., Feb. 14 to see The Kinsey Six, which includes her son Irwin Keller, a former Chicagoan. She is pictured here with Candace Gingrich-Jones of the Human Rights Campaign after the performance of "Electile Dysfunction: Kinsey Sicks for President." Courtesy of Irwin Keller |
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