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Sandy Rapp is a songwriter, activist, and author of God's Country: A Case Against Theocracy: The Haworth Press; 1991. Her best known songs are "Remember Rose: A Song For Choice," about the first back-street abortion fatality of the 1977 Medicaid-Abortion cutoff in (all editions of this piece feature a guest vocal by the late Bella Abzug) and "Everyone Was At Stonewall," a gay history, originally written for police sensitivity training, and which won StoneWall Society's 2004 Pride Song of the Year. Rapp was instrumental in the passage of a number of gay civil rights laws and policies on Long Island, NY. Her CDs, which sing of these and other issues, include We The People, Flag & The Rainbow, Still Marchin' and Salute to the Veteran Feminists. Rapp's appearances include the million-plus 2004 March For Women's Lives, the National Women's Music Festival, National NOW Rallies in Seneca Falls, Manhattan, and Washington, DC, the National Women's Political Caucus Conference, the Gulf Coast Womyn's Festival, Chicago's Autumnfest, New York State NOW Conferences, Montana Pride Rally, Palm Springs' Gay Veterans, Manhattan's Peoples Voice Cafe, the 2001 NOW March on DC, the Gay Millennium March, the 2003, 2005, and 2006 National NOW Conferences, Manhattan's LBGT Center, the 2005 Save The Court Rally in Union Square, and the Molly Yard Memorial in DC's Hart Senate Office Building. In 2006 Rapp received two OutMusic Award nominations, and served as a Grand Marshal of the Long Island Pride Parade. Rapp's premier of "Rise Up Ye Women" at the NYU Law School was toasted in The New Yorker - 11/13/06. In 2008 Rapp sang several of the Clinton rallies and wrote "She Will Rise" for a Hillary Website.
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Bella Abzug - A much needed primer on the premises of personal privacy underlying lesbian/gay civil rights and reproductive freedom, God's Country is a must for Americans.
John Money, PhD - Americans are already imperiled by an excessively dangerous amount of religious dictatorship in government. Read SandyRapp's book and awake to the peril.
New York Times - 1/28/1992 cites Sandy Rapp's God's Country.
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2004 "My Choice" March Video