Gay Power Com to Sheridan Square, by Lucian K. Tstt IV | The StoryGraph

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• GAY POWER COM TO SHERIDAN SQUARE
• LUCIAN TSTT'S "GAY POWER COM TO SHERIDAN SQUARE" IS AN...
• LUCIAN TSTT IV: “GAY POWER COM TO SHERIDAN SQUARE”
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER STUDI (LGBTQ): STONEWALL RTS
• A HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR GAY LIBERATN
• GAY HISTORY – SEPTEMBER 12, 1969: GAY LIBERATN FRONT PROTTS THE VILLAGE VOICE OVER HOMOPHOBIC ADVERTISG POLICY
• LUCIAN TSTT "GAY POWER COM TO SHERIDAN SQUARE
• STONEWALL: GAY POWER COM TO SHERIDAN SQUARE

GAY POWER COM TO SHERIDAN SQUARE

Sheridan Square this weekend looked like somethg om a William Burroughs novel as the sudn specter of “gay power” erected s brazen head and spat out a fairy tale the lik of which the area has never seen. The forc of faggotry, spurred by a Friday night raid on one of the cy’s largt, most popular, and longt lived gay bars, the Stonewall Inn, rallied Saturday night an unprecented prott agast the raid and ntued Sunday night to assert prence, possibily, and pri until the early hours of Monday morng.

The rult was a kd of liberatn, as the gay briga emerged om the bars, back rooms, and bedrooms of the Village and beme street people.

The afternoon was spent boardg up the wdows of the Stonewall and chalkg them wh signs of the new revolutn: “We Are Open, ” “There is all llege boys and girls here, ” “Support Gay Power — C’mon , girls, ” “Insp. ” Among the slogans were two refully clipped and borred pi of the Daily News story about the prev night’s events, which was anythg but kd to the gay e. Friday night’s crowd had returned and was beg led “gay power” cheers by a group of gay cheerlears.

LUCIAN TSTT'S "GAY POWER COM TO SHERIDAN SQUARE" IS AN...

Though drs had changed om Friday night’s gayery to Saturday night street cloth, the scene was a mand performance for queers. Hand-holdg, kissg, and posg accented each of the cheers wh a homosexual liberatn that had appeared only fleetgly on the street before. “I jt want you all to know, ” quipped a platum blond wh obv glee, “that sometim beg homosexual is a big pa the ass.

The quasi-polil tone of the street scene was looked upon wh disda by some, for rad news announcements about the prev night’s “gay power” chaos had brought half of Fire Island’s Cherry Grove nng back to home base to see what they had left behd. Olr boys had straed looks on their fac and talked ncerned whispers as they watched the up-and-g generatn take beg gay and flnt before the mass.

As the “gay power” chants on the street rose equency and volume, the crowd grew rtls. A stagnant suatn there brought on some gay tomfoolery the le of helmeted and club-rryg ps. Jt as the le got to a full kick route, the TPF advanced aga and cleared the crowd of screamg gay power down Christopher to Seventh Avenue.

LUCIAN TSTT IV: “GAY POWER COM TO SHERIDAN SQUARE”

Gone were the “gay power” chants of Saturday, but not the new and open brand of exhibnism. Allen Gsberg and Taylor Mead walked by to see what was happeng and were filled on the prev evengs’ activi by some of the gay activists.

He lent an extra umbrella of sereny of the scene wh his lghter and quiet mentary on nscns, “gay power” as a new movement, and the var implitns of what had happened. I followed him to the Stonewall, where rock mic blared om speakers all around a room that might have e right om a Hollywood set of a gay bar. He enjoyed the prospect of “gay power” and is probably workg on a manifto for the movement right now.

Lucian Tstt's "Gay Power Com to Sheridan Square" is an eyewns acunt of a very important event: the Stonewall Uprisg. In fact, we've seen the movements take very tentnal actns to divorce themselv om gay sex. The For Fuck's Sake Summ, hosted by the anizatn MPact Global Actn for Gay Men's Health and Rights, is a groundbreakg nveng that will brg back the foc to gay sex at this summer's Internatnal AIDS Conference Montreal on July 70 untri around the world still crimalize same-sex sexual behavr.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER STUDI (LGBTQ): STONEWALL RTS

For centuri gay, bisexual, and queer men have pursued sex while navigatg vlence, discrimatn, arrt, and disease. For s after, gay sex would be pably lked to ath and 40 years the nversatn around gay sex has been nearly always about preventg illns. The overwhelmg narrative around gay sex was that was somethg dirty and immoral.

Speakg openly and hontly about gay sex was owned upon, and ndomls sex was stigmatized. Condomls sex was and still is seen as behavr that gay men need to be prevented om participatg .

A HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR GAY LIBERATN

And we n celebrate the plex pursu of sexual pleasure and many people, this nveng will be the first time they have been a room full of other gay men jt to talk openly about gay sex.

The exchange of ias will allow to learn om each other and strategize the var ways we n prrize gay sex our movements and brg about meangful change. MPact is a talyst for creatg change among global gay, bisexual, and genrdiverse muni. He was most recently the senr health novatn strategist at Hor, the gay social workg app.

GAY HISTORY – SEPTEMBER 12, 1969: GAY LIBERATN FRONT PROTTS THE VILLAGE VOICE OVER HOMOPHOBIC ADVERTISG POLICY

He was a gay man livg New York Cy, and multus of his iends started to succumb to “gay ncer.

On June 28, 1969, patrons at the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village fought back when a vice squad tried to arrt them — and the gay rights movement was born. A month after the Stonewall rts, energized activists found the Gay Liberatn Front and adopted “gay power” as their mantra.

In the wake of Stonewall, gay lears champned “ee love” and argued that queer people should create a new way of livg, pletely divorced om heterosexual mor.

LUCIAN TSTT "GAY POWER COM TO SHERIDAN SQUARE

In his semal 1978 novel “Dancer om the Dance, ” the gay thor Andrew Holleran scribed the men as “the fags who nsir themselv worthls bee they are queer, and who fall to gradatn or sordidns.

Then, four years later, Ashman received a ll om Whe, who rmed him that he had “gay ncer. In some sense, Ariel’s entrance to the human world is remiscent of Ashman’s role New York’s gay muny. Ashman cid not to release “Sheridan Square, ” part bee butg the song meant that he would have to disclose that he was gay.

STONEWALL: GAY POWER COM TO SHERIDAN SQUARE

Homophobia was creasg durg the plague years, and Ashman did not want to endanger his al wh Disney. Bar Guis Collectn -- LGBT Communy CenterFor broar ntext, check out the 1968 and 1969 New York Cy Gay Scene Guis to see how muny rourc were scribed at the time.

Inpennt Voic: An Open Accs Collectn of an Alternative PrsSearch through alternative prs papers limg your search to beg July 1969 wh "Stonewall AND gay" as keywords. A p r and a paddy wagon were pulled up ont of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar two doors down om the Ln’s Head, and uniformed policemen were hlg Stonewall patrons out of the bar and puttg them to the back of the paddy wagon.