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Of particular interest in this case is what happens in the wake of the increased and increasing visibility of gays and lesbians, a group whose historical oppression has been based in part on our invisibility. No one on either side of the debate contests the fact that gay and lesbian visibility has increased markedly in the 1990s. Tom Stoddard, writing in the Advocate, a. leading gay and lesbian magazine, put it most clearly when he dubbed 1993 “the Year of Visibility” (1993, 45). In an article naming Achtenberg the Advocate’s