A history of the Stonewall rts, where LGBT people New York Cy took a stand agast vlent state reprsn and battled the police, kickstartg a ant, global gay liberatn movement.
Contents:
- GAY HISTORY – SEPTEMBER 15, 1969: “GAY POWER” NEW YORK CY’S FIRST “HOMOSEXUAL” NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED
- “GAY POWER” OFFIC
GAY HISTORY – SEPTEMBER 15, 1969: “GAY POWER” NEW YORK CY’S FIRST “HOMOSEXUAL” NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED
On September 15, 1969: Gay Power, “New York’s First Homosexual Newspaper” and the first publitn to emerge om the post-Stonewall movement… * gay power in new york city the ladder *
Wh two existg edns and only 100 pi produced, Homeboy Betiful fostered a sense of muny wh the queer Chino scene by prentg relevant cultural ntent, such as featurg the problems los barrs (neighborhoods) and highlightg the homo-homeboy liftyle that was specific to how lol Chinos approached homosexualy. Includ both edns are “Ask Lil Lo”, a segment servg as a "letters-to-edor" feature, fashn tips relevant to cholo/a culture, art entri, and “exposés” such as a homo-homeboy party or a gang-planned kidnappg.
The newspaper also ntaed illtratns by Too Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Fland, as well as regular ntributors as Arthur Bell, Taylor Mead, Charl Ludlam, Pudgy Roberts, Bill Vehr, Pat Maxwell, Clayton Cole and regular lumns om all of the active gay activists groups, om the most nservative Mattache Society to the most radil The Gay Liberatn Front, and all the other groups between. But for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) folks Ameri, the efflorcence of sexual exprsn did not beg until the wang months of that the heart of the natn’s then-largt bohemian enclave and gay ghetto, New York’s Greenwich Village. And California’s Atasro State Hospal was pared wh a Nazi ncentratn mp and known as a “Dach for queers” for performg electroshock and other dranian “therapi” on gays and lbians.
“GAY POWER” OFFIC
* gay power in new york city the ladder *
And the New York Tim ran a ont-page story on the cy’s gay male scene as “the most sensive open secret, ” leadg to a spate of feature articl—rangg om hostile to sympathetic— Life, Look, Newsweek, and Time. Most tellg was the ternalized homophobia that domated the homophile movement’s learship, which looked to medil profsnals who emed their sexualy “viant” and requirg a “cure. ”7 Donald Webster Cory, a psdonym for a leadg Mattache activist, took on a handful of younger ants advotg public protts and a rejectn of the medil pathologizg of gays for “alienatg [the movement] om scientific thkg…by s nstant, fensive, nrotic, disturbed nial” that homosexuals were sick.
’s Mattache chapter 1975 to approve a rolutn proclaimg that “homosexualy is not a sickns…but is merely a preference, an orientatn, or propensy, on par wh, and not different kd om, heterosexualy. ”9 Another signpost on the road ahead appeared when stunts at New York’s Columbia Universy found the first universy-chartered gay anizatn, the Stunt Homophile League 1967, clarg equaly between all sexual orientatns.
But the volvement of many mostly closeted gays and lbians the civil rights, women’s, and anti-Vietnam War movements shaped a new generatn of buddg radils chafg at their own opprsn. Influenced by the Black Power ants who had ma slogans like “Black is betiful” and “Black power” the argot of the radil movements, by 1968 the homophile movement adopted “gay is good” and “gay power” as their rallyg cri. A glimpse of thgs to e was perceptible at the formatn of the East Coast Homophile Organizatns (ECHO) 1963, where ants adopted plans to picket openly agast legislatn barrg gays om feral employment.