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CAN YOU BELIEVE IT: From left, Michael Pisaturo, W.
Fitzgerald Himmelsbach, Amy Black, and Edith H. Ajello
celebrate the repeal of the state's sodomy law, in 1995.

Journal photo/CONNIE GROSCH

Gay rights bill passes after years of struggle
West Bay's melancholy quartet now only a memory
Arson and atonement found in Foster bridge
Tsongas reshaped Lowell, Mass.; tragedy revisits Kennedys

A yearlong Providence Journal series about life in Rhode Island during the 20th century. Produced in cooperation with the Rhode Island Historical Society.