Morty Manford | Makg Gay History

Contents:

• INTERVIEW WH FORMER GAY ACTIVIST, MICHAEL GLATZE
• MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• WHEN MERS AND GAY ACTIVISTS UNED: THE REAL STORY OF THE FILM PRI

INTERVIEW WH FORMER GAY ACTIVIST, MICHAEL GLATZE

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.

MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST

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.

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

” 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.

WHEN MERS AND GAY ACTIVISTS UNED: THE REAL STORY OF THE FILM PRI

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.