25yrs ago today the biggest jumpstart of breast-cancer awareness movement occurred.

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Can you name it?


http://beautyoutofdamage.com

[Hekate]

1. Gerald Ford's wife Betty's diagnosis, courageously going public

Which encouraged Nancy Reagan to get checked, and she too went public with the results

Wait, that was longer ago than 25 years, wasn't it? I do remember Betty Ford's courage -- women just would not talk about this before, and certainly not on national television.

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2. Even more striking and impactful than that.

You’re so right about it not being discussed openly then.

[Brother Buzz]

3. NFL players took a knee for breast cancer awareness?

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4. Heheh.

In Trump’s fevered dreams.

[RockRaven]

5. Was it a plotline on Murphy Brown?

I vaguely recall some TV show having a character with a breast cancer scare, but I'm not sure I correctly recall which one.

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9. All in the Family? Golden Girls? This event was real life, though.

August 15, 1993 - the first ever topless photo in a major American magazine.

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6. The political news is keeping it out of the loop today, so -

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/insider/breast-cancer-mastectomy-photo.html

[bobbieinok]

7. Please give a summary. Many are limited re number of free NYT articles.

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8. Matuschka's photograph of herself on cover of NYT magazine

When LIFE magazine compiled their 100 Photographs That Changed the World it was included for jumpstarting the breast cancer awareness of movement.

It was incredibly courageous even as she considered it as art more than activism. You can google Beauty out of Damage if you can’t access NYT.

[bobbieinok]

10. Thank you