Gay Liberatn: How a Once Radil Movement Got Married and Settled Down on JSTOR

Contents:

• THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT
• GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT
• THE STONEWALL RTS DIDN’T START THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• GAY RIGHTS
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• HOW THE ADVENT OF AIDS ADVANCED GAY RIGHTS
• QUTN: 10. THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT: A. WAS BANNED SEVERAL STAT. B. ATTRACTED MANY STRAIGHT WOMEN. C. IALLY EXCLUD WOMEN. D. WAS SPIRED BY THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. E. END WH THE SUCCSFUL STONEWALL RT. 11. THE TOMOBILE: A. SPURRED GROWTH OTHER DTRI SUCH AS TOURISM AND STEEL PRODUCTN. B. LIMED THE EXPANSN OF MOST OTHER

THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT

The seri begs wh the headle “There are probably 2, 700 homosexuals at Cal”, and go to tail about how police officers have been crackg down on the "homosexual activy" on mp, cludg removg every other door the men’s rtroom, so that would stop people om drillg glory hol the stalls. Durg this s- the stunts veloped a list of mands for the Universy which clud: the Universy support the repeal of sodomy laws, the Universy provi facili for the CGE, the Universy give permissn to hold the gay dance as planned, and the Universy enforce the rignatn of John Cox.

GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT

In addn to the great event that was the dance, the CGE hosted many nscns raisg events the form of symposiums hop of exposg gays to their own opprsn and to te and raise awarens the straight muny about gays, their liftyle, and the acpanyg challeng. ” The CGE hoped that this would give closeted gays a chance to blend to the expected crowd of heterosexuals and expose them to the problems people who are gay face a heteronormative society while also exposg them to a supportive gay muny. Addnally, the CGE sponsored the Southeast Regnal Gay Coaln over the weekend of November 14, 1972 which legat om over 16 gay activist anizatns the Southeast and members of the general gay populatn and gay supporter populatn attend.

Those who feel themselv to be homosexual or bisexual or who are uncerta about their sexual orientatn n expect sympathetic and nfintial nsiratn om most of the relig unselors and the staff of the Columbia Counsellg Service, as well as om the SHL [Stunt Homophile League] self. The Gay Activists Alliance was found at the end of the 1960s New York and was a natnal group rather than tied exclively to Columbia, but many members of Gay People at Columbia were also members of the Gay Activists Alliance. Key potsIn the late 1960s and 1970s, Native Amerins, gay men, lbians, and women anized to change discrimatory laws and pursue ernment support for their terts, a strategy known as inty groups, whose aims and tactics posed a challenge to the existg state of affairs, often met wh hostily om dividuals, lol officials, and the US ernment.

THE STONEWALL RTS DIDN’T START THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Increased fundg for Native Amerin tn, healthre, legal servic, hog, and enomic velopment followed, along wh the hirg of more Native Amerin employe the rightsDurg this era, the stggle for gay and lbian rights tensified as well.

GAY RIGHTS

Shortly thereafter, the Gay Liberatn Front and Gay Activists’ Alliance were formed; the anizatns began to prott discrimatn, homophobia, and vlence agast gay people, and promoted gay liberatn and gay advocy anizatns lled for gay men and lbians to e out—reveal their sexual orientatn—gay and lbian muni moved om the urban unrground to the polil sphere. The Stonewall rts (also referred to as the Stonewall uprisg or the Stonewall rebelln) were a seri of spontaneo monstratns by members of the gay (LGBT) muny rponse to a police raid that began the early morng hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York Cy.

Although members of the gay muny were divid their opns about the rt, hundreds of people returned to the scene for the next several nights, some to ntue vlent opposn to the police and others to exprs their sexualy public for the first time. After Stonewall, however, a more radil polil nscns veloped that rulted om the formatn of many new groups, cludg the Gay Liberatn Front and Radilbians, whose members rejected the strategi and lled for a more ant rponse to homophobia. The papers clud sectns voted to muny updat, cultural events, and personal ads, but they also highlighted new polil ncerns, namely efforts to raise awarens about the problems of gay people prisons and ncerns about gay health.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Public health thori, journalists, doctors, and even many the gay muny blamed gay liberatn and the looseng of sexual rtrictns for the epimic, but no one the medil or scientific muny actually unrstood the behavr of the vis.

Crage tail four prev police raids on gay bars ci across the Uned Stat that prompted activist rpons—and lol gas—but that eher fad om lol memory, did not spire memoratns that lasted, or did not motivate activists other ci. Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter.

HOW THE ADVENT OF AIDS ADVANCED GAY RIGHTS

Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group. ”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze.

Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review. That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D.

”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue.

QUTN: 10. THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT: A. WAS BANNED SEVERAL STAT. B. ATTRACTED MANY STRAIGHT WOMEN. C. IALLY EXCLUD WOMEN. D. WAS SPIRED BY THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. E. END WH THE SUCCSFUL STONEWALL RT. 11. THE TOMOBILE: A. SPURRED GROWTH OTHER DTRI SUCH AS TOURISM AND STEEL PRODUCTN. B. LIMED THE EXPANSN OF MOST OTHER

They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn.