A Glimpse of Gay Pri the 1950s

Contents:

• CHARL GAY
• JAM SHERWOOD GAY
• HENRY GAY
• THE GAY 50'S
• A GLIMPSE OF GAY PRI THE 1950S
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• GOVERNMENT PERSECUTN OF THE LGBTQ COMMUNY IS WISPREADFRANK KAMENY APPEALED HIS 1957 FIRG BY THE U.S. ARMY THE FIRST KNOWN LEGAL PROCEEDGS THAT ED PRO-LGBTQ+ ARGUMENTS. THE 1950S WERE PERILO TIM FOR DIVIDUALS WHO FELL OUTSI OF SOCIETY’S LEGALLY ALLOWED NORMS RELATG TO GENR OR SEXUALY. THERE WERE MANY NAM FOR THE DIVIDUALS, CLUDG THE CLIL “HOMOSEXUAL,” A TERM POPULARIZED BY PNEERG GERMAN PSYCHIATRIST RICHARD VON KRAFFT-EBG. IN THE U.S., PROFSNALS OFTEN ED THE TERM “VERT.” IN THE MID-19TH CENTURY, MANY CI FORMED “VICE SQUADS” AND POLICE OFTEN LABELED THE PEOPLE THEY ARRTED “SEXUAL PERVERTS.” THE ERNMENT’S PREFERRED TERM WAS “VIANT,” WHICH ME WH LEGAL NSEQUENC FOR ANYONE SEEKG A REER PUBLIC SERVICE OR THE ARY. “HOMOPHILE” WAS THE TERM PREFERRED BY SOME EARLY ACTIVISTS, SMALL WORKS OF WOMEN AND MEN WHO YEARNED FOR MUNY AND FOUND CREATIVE WAYS TO RIST LEGAL AND SOCIETAL PERSECUTN. WH DRAFT ELIGIBILY OFFICIALLY LOWERED OM 21 TO 18 1942, WORLD WAR II BROUGHT TOGETHER LNS OF PEOPLE OM AROUND THE UNTRY–MANY OF WHOM WERE LEAVG THEIR HOME STAT FOR THE FIRST TIME–TO FILL THE RANKS OF THE ARY AND THE FERAL WORKFORCE. AMONG THEM WERE GAYS AND LBIANS, WHO QUIETLY FORMED KSHIPS ON ARY BAS AROUND THE WORLD. THEY SERVED SILENCE, ALWAYS FEARFUL THAT REVEALG THEIR INTY TO A POTENTIAL NEW PARTNER OR IEND ULD GET THEM DISHONORABLY DISCHARGED, IF NOT URT MARTIALLED. THE ARY FIRST VELOPED FORMAL PUNISHMENTS FOR HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR DURG WWI, AND OVER TIME VELOPED CREASGLY PROBG MEANS TO ROOT OUT “VIANTS” OM WH AND PREVENT THEM OM ENLISTG. IN 1953, PRINT DWIGHT EISENHOWER IMPLEMENTED NEW STANDARDS FOR CIVIL SERVANTS THAT BANNED HOMOSEXUALS OM SERVG MANY POSNS. THE LAVENR SRE THOANDS OF MEMBERS OF THE ARY AND CIVIL SERVANTS WOULD BE DISMISSED BEE OF L AGAST HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR. A FEW ANECDOT SEEMED TO SUPPORT THE ERNMENT’S REASONG HOMOSEXUALS WERE A GRAVE SECURY THREAT BEE THEY ULD BE BLACKMAILED BY FOREIGN ERNMENTS. THE IA WAS HARD TO UNTER AS FEW HOMOSEXUALS WERE A POSN TO PUBLICLY DISCS THEIR INTY.  IN THE YEARS FOLLOWG WWII, HOMOSEXUALS WERE MORE DIRECTLY TIED TO MUNISM. THE COLD WAR PERD GAVE RISE TO SENATOR JOSEPH MCCARTHY, WHO EXPLICLY TARGETED “VIANTS,” NOT ONLY ERNMENT SERVICE, BUT ALSO HOLLYWOOD AS PART OF A LARGER PROJECT TO RID AMERI OF S UNSIRABLE ELEMENTS. THE HIGHLY PUBLICIZED EFFORT TO RID THE U.S. OF MUNISTS ME TO BE KNOWN AS THE “RED SRE,” WHILE THE EFFORT TO DISMISS HOMOSEXUALS WOULD LATER BE TERMED THE “LAVENR SRE.”THERE WERE NO OUT LGBTQ+ ELECTED OFFICIALS THE ENTIRE UNTRY.PLI MURRAY PUBLISH BOOK OUTLG CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT STRATEGY
• THE GAY BARS AND VICE SQUADS OF 1950'S LOS ANGEL

CHARL GAY

Stephen Noble explor mancript sourc rerdg homosexualy 17th-century England, g recently talogued material the Harley llectn. The term ‘homosexualy’ was ed the 19th century and we nnot know how people om the past would intify wh the language we e today. The Buggery Act of 1533 crimalised homosexual activy between men and as a rult, rerds of people self-intifyg are rare.

JAM SHERWOOD GAY

This also means that, as female homosexual acts were not specifilly crimalised, rerds of male homosexualy are more prevalent. In the English imagatn, homosexualy was often lked wh foreigners, pecially Catholics and Italians (‘ the Italian way’ was another phemism for sodomy). Perhaps the poet is g homosexualy as a metaphor and, by referrg to Shrewsbury as a ‘patient bardash’, is implyg that he had not tly changed his relig views?

Another example of this lk between homosexualy and Catholicism English satire is the play Sodom, or the Qutsence of Debchery, one of the few remag mancript pi of which surviv the Harley llectn. Alan Bray, Homosexualy Renaissance England (New York: Columbia Universy Prs, 1995).

TIL that a ma reason historians are sure Frerick the Great was gay is on July 1750, the Pssian kg unmistakably wrote to his gay secretary and rear, Cl Étienne Darget: “M hémorroïs salient affectusement votre v…” “My hemorrhoids affectnately greet your ck”. Acpanied by three men named Carnage, Wright and Sween, "Red" and his wife Margaret left Virgia for to settle Owsley County, Kentucky at the mouth of Gays Creek.

HENRY GAY

HENRY "RED" GAY IS PROBABLY THE FIRST GAY TO ARRIVE IN IS MOST PROBABLY THAT MOST OF THE GAYS OF EASTERN Kentucky HAD THEIR ORIGIN WITH HENRY. WILLIAM GAY, who had been volved the uprisgs 1670, left England about this time and me to Ameri.

THE GAY 50'S

ALLEN GAY, age 85 1977, said he had looked to the hollow tree and seen the child's grave. HENRY, whose name appears as HENRY GUYE on the tax rerds, was the first of the GAY fay to pay tax Perry County 1821 or 1822.

GAY, beme a banker and was Mayor of Berea, Kentucky, for the longt term served by any Mayor Ameri. Their children, all sons too, were: THOMAS GAY, father of LIGE (ELIJAH), Born 1895, and CALE GAY, born 1910, : BILL GAY, father of ALLEN GAY, born 1892, : JOHN GAY; ABRAHAM GAY; LIGE GAY; HENRY GAY; and JESS GAY. EVERY YEAR THE GAY FAMILIES HAVE A REUNION WITH DEDICATION CEREMONIES TO "OLD RED" HENRY AND HIS EXPLOITS.

A GLIMPSE OF GAY PRI THE 1950S

ON JUNE 27, 1976, THE REUNION WAS HELD AT LEVI JACKSON STATE PARK, WHERE THE FOLLOWING DEDICATION WAS READ: "HENRY GAY, UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON AND HIS MINUTEMEN HELPED BUILD AND MAINTAIN THIS LAND OF THE FREE, INSURING PEACE AND TRANQUILITY WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

WE, HIS DESCENDANTS, GATHER HERE TODAY IN PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP TO CELEBRATE THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GAY REUNION AND THE 200TH BIRTHDAY OF OUR NATION AND TO HEREBY WISH TO DEDICATE AND INSTILL IN THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF ALL HERE PRESENT, THE MEMORY OF OUR BELOVED RED HENRY GAY. "I, Henry Gay, Sr., beg sick body and beg perfectly my right md, and as life is uncerta, and wishg to settle my affairs this world, first: I give my son Henry, my upper plantatn where Rsell Gay now liv, for work he has done for me sce he has been of age, also my watch and the e of a horse beast untill he n raise one, if he liv wh me that long, and i will and bequeath unto my son Rsell, two heifers, to be worth eleven dollars, and the balance of my tate, both real and personal; I will and bequeath to my wife, to be divid between the followg heirs, to w: Nelson, Elijah, and Joseph, Joanna, Rachel and Mary. Signed: Henry Gay Tt: Jt Bowlg and Jeremiah Smh Clerk's Statement signed by: Jse Combs, Clerk.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

Nathaniel, son of Nathaniel and Lydia (Starr) Gay was born Dedham, Suffolk, Massachetts Bay Colony on 2 Apr 1682; he married there Margaret, dghter of Daniel and Mary (Fuller) Fisher on 27 Mar 1706; Nathaniel died there on 25 May 1750. Nathaniel (Nathaniel, John) Gay and Margaret had eleven known children born Dedham. The fay of Nathaniel and Margaret Gay are documented The New England Historil and Genealogil Register, Vol 33, page 36.

↑ 1682 Birth for Nathaniel Gay, son of Nathaniel "The New England Historil and Genealogil Register, " Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogil Society, 1847-. ↑ "Massachetts, Town Clerk, Val and Town Rerds, 1626-2001, " database wh imag, FaySearch (: 19 April 2021), Nathaniell Gay and Margret Fisher, 16 Mar 1709; cg Marriage, Dedham, Suffolk, Massachetts Bay Colony, Brish Colonial Ameri, Massachetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007548965.

↑ "Massachetts, Town Clerk, Val and Town Rerds, 1626-2001, " database wh imag, FaySearch (: 10 November 2020), Nathaniel Gay, 25 May 1750; cg Death, Dedham, Suffolk, Massachetts Bay Colony, Brish Colonial Ameri, Massachetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009369. The polil climate of the 1950's was reflective of the medil opns of the time- that homosexualy was a perversn to be feared and abhorred.

GOVERNMENT PERSECUTN OF THE LGBTQ COMMUNY IS WISPREADFRANK KAMENY APPEALED HIS 1957 FIRG BY THE U.S. ARMY THE FIRST KNOWN LEGAL PROCEEDGS THAT ED PRO-LGBTQ+ ARGUMENTS. THE 1950S WERE PERILO TIM FOR DIVIDUALS WHO FELL OUTSI OF SOCIETY’S LEGALLY ALLOWED NORMS RELATG TO GENR OR SEXUALY. THERE WERE MANY NAM FOR THE DIVIDUALS, CLUDG THE CLIL “HOMOSEXUAL,” A TERM POPULARIZED BY PNEERG GERMAN PSYCHIATRIST RICHARD VON KRAFFT-EBG. IN THE U.S., PROFSNALS OFTEN ED THE TERM “VERT.” IN THE MID-19TH CENTURY, MANY CI FORMED “VICE SQUADS” AND POLICE OFTEN LABELED THE PEOPLE THEY ARRTED “SEXUAL PERVERTS.” THE ERNMENT’S PREFERRED TERM WAS “VIANT,” WHICH ME WH LEGAL NSEQUENC FOR ANYONE SEEKG A REER PUBLIC SERVICE OR THE ARY. “HOMOPHILE” WAS THE TERM PREFERRED BY SOME EARLY ACTIVISTS, SMALL WORKS OF WOMEN AND MEN WHO YEARNED FOR MUNY AND FOUND CREATIVE WAYS TO RIST LEGAL AND SOCIETAL PERSECUTN. WH DRAFT ELIGIBILY OFFICIALLY LOWERED OM 21 TO 18 1942, WORLD WAR II BROUGHT TOGETHER LNS OF PEOPLE OM AROUND THE UNTRY–MANY OF WHOM WERE LEAVG THEIR HOME STAT FOR THE FIRST TIME–TO FILL THE RANKS OF THE ARY AND THE FERAL WORKFORCE. AMONG THEM WERE GAYS AND LBIANS, WHO QUIETLY FORMED KSHIPS ON ARY BAS AROUND THE WORLD. THEY SERVED SILENCE, ALWAYS FEARFUL THAT REVEALG THEIR INTY TO A POTENTIAL NEW PARTNER OR IEND ULD GET THEM DISHONORABLY DISCHARGED, IF NOT URT MARTIALLED. THE ARY FIRST VELOPED FORMAL PUNISHMENTS FOR HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR DURG WWI, AND OVER TIME VELOPED CREASGLY PROBG MEANS TO ROOT OUT “VIANTS” OM WH AND PREVENT THEM OM ENLISTG. IN 1953, PRINT DWIGHT EISENHOWER IMPLEMENTED NEW STANDARDS FOR CIVIL SERVANTS THAT BANNED HOMOSEXUALS OM SERVG MANY POSNS. THE LAVENR SRE THOANDS OF MEMBERS OF THE ARY AND CIVIL SERVANTS WOULD BE DISMISSED BEE OF L AGAST HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR. A FEW ANECDOT SEEMED TO SUPPORT THE ERNMENT’S REASONG HOMOSEXUALS WERE A GRAVE SECURY THREAT BEE THEY ULD BE BLACKMAILED BY FOREIGN ERNMENTS. THE IA WAS HARD TO UNTER AS FEW HOMOSEXUALS WERE A POSN TO PUBLICLY DISCS THEIR INTY.  IN THE YEARS FOLLOWG WWII, HOMOSEXUALS WERE MORE DIRECTLY TIED TO MUNISM. THE COLD WAR PERD GAVE RISE TO SENATOR JOSEPH MCCARTHY, WHO EXPLICLY TARGETED “VIANTS,” NOT ONLY ERNMENT SERVICE, BUT ALSO HOLLYWOOD AS PART OF A LARGER PROJECT TO RID AMERI OF S UNSIRABLE ELEMENTS. THE HIGHLY PUBLICIZED EFFORT TO RID THE U.S. OF MUNISTS ME TO BE KNOWN AS THE “RED SRE,” WHILE THE EFFORT TO DISMISS HOMOSEXUALS WOULD LATER BE TERMED THE “LAVENR SRE.”THERE WERE NO OUT LGBTQ+ ELECTED OFFICIALS THE ENTIRE UNTRY.PLI MURRAY PUBLISH BOOK OUTLG CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT STRATEGY

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THE GAY BARS AND VICE SQUADS OF 1950'S LOS ANGEL

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