Editing Joan Baez (section)

=== LGBT rights ===
Baez has been prominent in the struggle for [[LGBT rights|gay and lesbian rights]]. In 1978, she performed at several benefit concerts to defeat the [[Briggs Initiative]], which proposed banning openly gay people from teaching in public schools in California.<ref>{{cite web|first=Ariel|last=Min|url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/joan-baez-75th-birthday-celebration-8-things-you-didnt-know-about-joan-baez/4904/|title=8 Things You Didn't Know About Joan Baez|website=[[PBS]].org|date=April 29, 2016|access-date=February 5, 2022|archive-date=January 30, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130211844/https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/joan-baez-75th-birthday-celebration-8-things-you-didnt-know-about-joan-baez/4904/|url-status=live}}</ref> Later that same year, she participated in memorial marches for the assassinated San Francisco city supervisor, [[Harvey Milk]], who was openly gay.<ref>{{cite news|first=Cynthia|last=Gorney|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/11/29/this-is-a-city-trying-to-climb-out-of-a-nightmare/14611505-503c-4413-a3da-4b01bc655acc/|title=This Is a City Trying to Climb Out of a Nightmare|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=November 29, 1978|access-date=February 5, 2022|archive-date=March 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307144347/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/11/29/this-is-a-city-trying-to-climb-out-of-a-nightmare/14611505-503c-4413-a3da-4b01bc655acc/|url-status=live}}</ref> In the 1990s, she appeared with her friend [[Janis Ian]] at a benefit for the [[National Gay and Lesbian Task Force]], a gay lobbying organization, and performed at the San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride March.<ref>{{cite web|first=Stephen|last=Rutledge|url=https://worldofwonder.net/queerquote-i-went-to-jail-for-11-days-for-disturbing-the-peace-i-was-trying-to-disturb-the-war-joan-baez/|title=#QueerQuote: "I Went to Jail for 11 Days for Disturbing the Peace; I Was Trying to Disturb the War." – Joan Baez|website=worldofwonder.net|date=January 9, 2022|accessdate=February 5, 2022|archive-date=February 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220205101537/https://worldofwonder.net/queerquote-i-went-to-jail-for-11-days-for-disturbing-the-peace-i-was-trying-to-disturb-the-war-joan-baez/|url-status=live}}</ref> Her song "Altar Boy and the Thief" from ''[[Blowin' Away]]'' (1977) was written as a dedication to her gay fanbase.<ref>{{cite web|title=Blowin' Away|url=http://www.last.fm/music/Joan+Baez/Blowin%27+Away|access-date=October 17, 2013|archive-date=September 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904052142/http://www.last.fm/music/Joan+Baez/Blowin%27+Away|url-status=live}}</ref>