Gay History - September 15, 1969: "Gay Power" New York Cy's First "Homosexual" Newspaper Published

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The Stonewall Rts, also lled the Stonewall Uprisg, took place on June 28, 1969, New York Cy, after police raid the Stonewall Inn, a lol gay club. The raid sparked a rt among bar patrons and neighborhood rints as police hled employe and patrons out of the bar, leadg to six days of protts and vlent clash. The Stonewall Rts served as a talyst for the gay rights movement.

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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.

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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. * gay power in new york city the ladder *

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.

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