Steve Bull once raced agast time to try to save the memoirs of one of Mae's gay rights pneers. His trip led him down memory lane.
Contents:
- GAY HISTORY – JULY 21, 1958: NEW ORLEANS LNCH RAIDS AGAST FRENCH QUARTER GAY BARS AND “DEVIANTS”.
- RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
GAY HISTORY – JULY 21, 1958: NEW ORLEANS LNCH RAIDS AGAST FRENCH QUARTER GAY BARS AND “DEVIANTS”.
* lgbt french history *
At the begng of 2001, French newspapers received a prs release announcg the birth of a "Gay and Lbian Amy:" "Please do not throw away any more of your old papers: books, magaz, programs, guis, talogs, posters, leaflets, flyers... We are savg and prervg everythg on homosexualy, bisexualy and transexualy. He was nnected wh the Ardie group, the first French "homophile" movement, a space for "daddy-style homosexualy, " as he said, where one uld always unt on "a p, a lawyer or a doctor specializg venereal diseas.
In San Francis, New York and Berl, the other big ci marked by the AIDS epimic, mms have for a long time lled on homosexual archiv, often started apartments by private dividuals. The legalizatn of homosexual acts between two nsentg adults me as part of the French Penal Co of 1791, durg the French Revolutn.
RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
England didn't pass the Sexual Offenc Bill until 1967, and even then, homosexualy only beme legal when "private, " between two men over the age of 21.