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RANDY WICKER (THE MATTACHINE SOCIETY, LONGEST SERVING GAY ACTIVIST) terview om THE LGBTQ HISTORY PROJECT: 1950s - AIDS.

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INTERVIEW WH FORMER GAY ACTIVIST, MICHAEL GLATZE

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If the police raid on the Stonewall Inn had happened earlier, probably would have been stantly fotten, like so many other attacks on surrept gay meetg plac. That ’s spirual alchemy was sential to what is remembered as the openg shot the gay revolutn: a batn of everythg om the Pill to LSD, om Bob Dylan to the Beatl, om the civil rights movement to the women’s movement to the battle to end the war Vietnam. It was also 1968 that, after hearg Stokely Carmichael say “Black is betiful, ” gay activist Frank Kameny ed somethg for his own movement: “Gay is good.

Manhattan’s Greenwich Village neighborhood to raid the Stonewall Inn, expectg the arrts and flight that were route an age when queerns was crimalized, the ­patrons — drag queens and lbians, hippi and gay men sus, a group as diverse as the activists the ­­photographs — fought back. Gay activists like cy uncil speaker Corey Johnson weled the official ntrn, but the apology also highlighted a peculiar aspect of such moments history.

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” There were jt a half-dozen gay anizatns across the untry when Stonewall happened, and only the Dghters of Bilis and the Mattache Societi had even the smallt of public profil. By the mid-1970s, the anizatns queer people uld choose om also clud the Natnal Gay Task Force, the Lambda Legal Defense and Edutn fund, and hundreds of others around the world.

Ernment, to the anti-homosexual church, to the offic of anti­-homosexual psychiatrists, to the cy ernment, and to the state legislatur which make our manner of lovemakg a crime. “We want gays to reprent gays, ” Milk told the San Francis Examer 1977, and his posn as an LGBTQ public official helped brg the muny’s issu to promence.

While servg as a cy supervisor, he troduced legislatn to protect the gay muny, cludg a gay rights ordance 1978 to ban discrimatn agast LGBTQ hog or employment.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

Kramer -found the advocy groups GMHC (Gay Men’s Health Crisis) and ACT UP (AIDS Coaln to Unleash Power), which ed the inic SILENCE = DEATH logo that beme a symbol for the AIDS crisis. His ntributns to the LGBTQ muny boil down to the impact he ma as a pneer drag, and how “Drag Race” drastilly changed the way lns of Amerins view — and appreciate — a key facet of gay culture. Johnson was a key figure of the 1960s gay rights movement the US and, as legend has , threw the brick that igned the famo Stonewall rts, which were the talyst for the movement and have spired many Pri march ever 1992, Johnson’s body was found the Hudson River.

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She was once arrted for attemptg to climb through a wdow ( a drs and heels) to a room where the New York Cy Council was batg a gay rights bill, NBC reported.

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Interview Wh Former Gay Activist, Michael Glatze — Joseph Nilosi - Reparative Therapy® .

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