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Contents:

• THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
• GAY RIGHTS
• GAY HISTORI AND CULTUR : AN ENCYCLOPEDIA
• GAY HISTORI, CLOSE ENOUGH TO TOUCH. (BUT DON’T.)
• HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
• RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• ON ARCHIVG AND HONORG VIRGIA'S LONG GAY HISTORI
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED

For a long time, the mastream public didn't want to hear our Ca's The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle tells the story of a secretly gay postman searchg for a lost love om his youth (Cred: Headle Review)"I would venture to say that the public were disgted and outraged, " says thor Crystal Jeans. It's about a lonely, socially awkward and secretly gay postman livg a fictnal town the north of England who hs retirement, realisg he wants to turn his life around and fally be happy – but to do this, he needs to fd the love of his life, a man he hasn’t seen for nearly 50 years.

GAY RIGHTS

That same year, the so-lled "Alan Turg law" offered pardons to 49, 000 Brish gay men who’d been nvicted of homosexual acts – followg a mpaign arguably bolstered by the greater awarens brought about by The Imatn Game, the h film that picted the nvictn and chemil stratn of the Enigma-breakg puter scientist.

GAY HISTORI AND CULTUR : AN ENCYCLOPEDIA

Over the last five years, a tr of Irish wrers have livered stunng gay-themed novels set predomantly perds of history that didn't wele them – John Boyne (The Heart’s Invisible Furi), Graham Norton (Home Stretch), and Sebastian Barry (the Costa Award-wng Days Whout End). 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. 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.

GAY HISTORI, CLOSE ENOUGH TO TOUCH. (BUT DON’T.)

”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. 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. 1 / 12: NY Daily News Archive/Getty ImagChristopher Street Liberatn Day Shortly after the Stonewall uprisg, members of the Mattache Society spl off to form the Gay Liberatn Front, a radil group that lnched public monstratns, protts and nontatns wh polil officials.

Siar groups followed, cludg the Gay Activists Alliance, Radilbians, and Street Transvt Actn Revolutnari (STAR) 1970, at the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, New York Cy muny members marched through lol streets memoratn of the event. Addnally, several openly LGBTQ dividuals secured public office posns: Kathy Kozachenko won a seat to the Ann Harbor, Michigan, Cy Council 1974, beg the first out Amerin to be elected to public Milk, who mpaigned on a pro-gay rights platform, beme the San Francis cy supervisor 1978, beg the first openly gay man elected to a polil office asked Gilbert Baker, an artist and gay rights activist, to create an emblem that reprents the movement and would be seen as a symbol of pri. In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn published a report about five prevly healthy homosexual men beg fected wh a rare type of 1984, rearchers had intified the e of AIDS—the human immunoficiency vis, or HIV—and the Food and Dg Admistratn licensed the first mercial blood tt for HIV 1985.

HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI

But after failg to garner enough support for such an open policy, Print Clton 1993 passed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy, which allowed gay men and women to serve the ary as long as they kept their sexualy a rights advot cried the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, as did ltle to stop people om beg discharged on the grounds of their 2011, Print Obama fulfilled a mpaign promise to repeal DADT; by that time, more than 12, 000 officers had been discharged om the ary unr DADT for refg to hi their sexualy. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was officially repealed on September 20, Marriage and Beyond In 1992, the District of Columbia passed a law that allowed gay and lbian upl to register as domtic partners, grantg them some of the rights of marriage (the cy of San Francis passed a siar ordance three years prr and California would later extend those rights to the entire state 1999) 1993, the hight urt  Hawaii led that a ban on gay marriage may go agast the state’s nstutn.

RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN

In 1994, a new anti-hate-crime law allowed judg to impose harsher sentenc if a crime was motivated by a victim’s sexual Matthew Shepard ActCourty of the Matthew Shepard FoundatnMatthew Shepard, who was btally killed a hate crime 2003, gay rights proponents had another b of happy news: the U. Gay rights proponents mt also ntent wh an creasg number of “relig liberty” state laws, which allow bs to ny service to LGBTQ dividuals due to relig beliefs, as well as “bathroom laws” that prevent transgenr dividuals om g public bathrooms that don’t rrpond to their sex at birth.

Anthony Corbett Sullivan, a gay man and Atralian cizen livg the Uned Stat the early 1970s, challenged the Immigratn and Naturalizatn Service’s (INS) efforts to port him, first based on his claim that he would be persecuted for his sexualy Atralia; and later based on his same-sex marriage to his partner Richard Frank Adams, which was performed 1975 Colorado, a state that issued marriage licens to gay upl at the time. Includ here are photopi of approximately 2, 200 documents om FBI Headquarters and var regnal offic, relatg primarily to the Dghters of Bilis, Gay Activists Alliance, Gay Liberatn Front, and the Mattache Society, addn to x, summari, and var statistil analys of the documents.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

A few exampl of the ntent this archive offers clus newsletters that document the Gay Gam, an Olympic-style athletic event; newsletters om profsnal groups like the Bay Area Network of Gay and Lbian Edutors (BANGLE), Bay Area Career Women, and the Goln Gate Bs Associatn; newsletters om the Metropolan Communy Church (MCC) San Francis, the first church wh a primary, posive mistry to the LGBT muny. Documents the llectn prent rearch and statistics that track levels of discrimatn agast people wh a homosexual orientatn, LGBTQ muni' awarens of their rights, the numbers of same-sex upl, fai/parents, sexual behavr patterns, and much more.

ON ARCHIVG AND HONORG VIRGIA'S LONG GAY HISTORI

Policy and legislative documents ver ccial legislatn to drive the Gay Rights Movement forward, cludg the legalizatn of male and female homosexualy; implementatn of same-sex marriage legislatn; approach to tacklg sexualy-based discrimatn and harassment; and monorg LGBTQ rights, particularly for asylum seekers jurisdictns where the tradn or relig beliefs rult the persecutn of the muni. Origally found the Uned Kgdom 1976 as the Gay Christian Movement, the Lbian and Gay Christian Movement (LGCM) supported homosexual Christians experiencg discrimatn wh their church, urged nomatns to reexame doctr ncerng homosexualy, advoted for civil rights wh the church and through legislatn, and worked wh other groups. Mastream publitns clu issu of the Gay Communy News, a Boston weekly newspaper wh a natnal reach and that for a time served as the movement’s unofficial “paper of rerd;” Out Front, a daily news and entertament paper that is the send-olst pennt LGBTQ publitn the Uned Stat; and Frontiers Newsmagaze, Southern California’s olst LGBTQ newsmagaze.

The publitns pat a varied picture of LGBT life the late twentieth century by featurg stori of public figur g out, bullets on AIDS, articl about gay acceptance the ary, and stori about gay partnerships, same-sex marriage, and fay life.

Established 1979, the Gay and Lbian Stunt Unn (GLSU) of Los Angel Cy College (LACC) anized a seri of speakers for a gay history month, advoted for the cln of gay studi urs at LACC, marched the gay pri para, and tablished a Harvey Milk Memorial Scholarship Fund for gay and lbian stunts. Found 1983, the Multi–ethnic Gay and Lbian Exchange (MEG/LE) was a aln of gay and lbian people of lor anizatns Los Angel, which clud reprentativ om Black and Whe Men Together, Asian/Pacific Lbians and Gays, Gay and Lbian Latos Unidos, Lbians of Color, and other groups.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

While the typ of materials are generally tend for sgle e, and equently do not survive beyond the activi they were signed to promote, the Canadian Lbian and Gay Archiv has curated a substantial poster llectn, prervg the wdows on LGBTQ history for future generatns. The SCCRH provid an extensive program of monthly lectur, discsn groups, and rmal meetgs of clergymen, church members, and members of the LGBT muny; retreats and nferenc explorg homosexualy and relign; "exposure tn" for non-homosexual clergy and church members to learn about aspects of LGBT culture; assistance to church velopg polici relatg to homosexualy and relign, and to homosexual law reform; and trag for unselors, teachers, clergy, and others who unseled homosexuals.

Corrponnce, clippgs, and proposals related to the Amerin Anthropologil Associatn and the Society of Lbian and Gay Anthropologists n be found here as well as materials associated wh the Radil Faeri, such as rrponnce, newsletters, member directori, and Nomen documents. But on a recent afternoon, as dozens of men and women explored s low-l rooms, the only sex was the reason was “Adonis Memori, ” an immersive work based on first-person acunts by men who equented the Adonis, a gay porn movie theater that opened 1975 and proved so popular the seedy-cy era of Tim Square that spired s own film, “A Night at the Adonis. But there are also more poetic parts, tal of the Adonis as a refuge where men found pannship and romance before the axm “you had to be there” lerally, immersive theater productns — the multidisciplary genre clus artful extravaganzas like “Sleep No More” as well as more r fare like “Dnk Shakpeare” — are rurrectg bygone chapters gay history this sprg.

At a time when gay marriage is often greeted wh a once-unthkable yawn, and wh anxiety about AIDS no longer omniprent, the nostalgia-dnk shows are eager to provi dienc an experiential remr of the dangers and pleasur of an earlier gay addn to “Adonis Memori, ” there’s Jeremy Lawrence’s “Lavenr Songs, ” a solo show set a Nazi-era unrground Berl baret, where a drag queen addrs the dience durg what might be his last performance. ) Directed by Stt Ebersold at Culture Project, the piece is semi-immersive: The actors mgle wh the dience a mpy gay bar remiscent of the UpStairs, wh baret seatg near a piano where actors belt the ’70s-spired Sneddon“This is a space where you want to hang out, ” said Jason Sherwood, 27, the show’s set signer. ”In addn to accsible and entertag history lsons, the creative teams behd “Adonis Memori” and “View UpStairs” said they hoped immersg dienc a gay yteryear would remd theatergoers of what was like to cise bars and other gay shared spac wh their ey, not wh their Bounville said he was spired by the gay thor Samuel R.