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Contents:
- WASHGTON BLA: LGBTQ NEWS, POLICS, LGBTQ RIGHTS, GAY NEWS
- HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN
- EX-GAYS SCEND UPON D.C. TO LOBBY AGAST LGBTQ RIGHTS
WASHGTON BLA: LGBTQ NEWS, POLICS, LGBTQ RIGHTS, GAY NEWS
The olst LGBTQ newspaper the U.S. verg the latt gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr news Washgton, DC and around the world. * gay rights dc *
On Febary 2, 2021, Pete Buttigieg beme the first openly gay man to w Senate nfirmatn to n a Cabet partment. This historic appotment has s roots an extraordary moment 1957 when Frank Kameny, a young astro-physicist, cid to stand his ground when the feral ernment dismissed him om his job for beg gay. While he did not get his job back, Kameny’s subsequent s-long battle to crimalize homosexualy fundamentally changed Washgton and the world.
Gay is Good: Frank Kameny and the Fight for LGBTQ Rights (Vio). On April 22, 2021 historian Eric Cervi, thor of The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs.
Defense Department Hawaii after a secury clearance vtigatn termed he was a homosexual.
HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN
Gay rights activist Larry “Dean” Maccubb was at a party wh iends 1975 when he me up wh the ia to create a gay pri event D.C. * gay rights dc *
In The Deviant’s War, Cervi firsthand acunts, classified FBI rerds, and personal documents, predomantly om the Frank Kameny Papers at the Library of Congrs, to give the rear an sight to the 1960s when the Mattache Society of Washgton, the group Kameny found, beme the first anizatn to prott the systematic persecutn of gay feral employe. It trac the ti that bound gay rights to the Black Freedom Movement, the New Left, lbian activism, and trans ristance. Gay Is Good: The Life and Letters of Gay Rights Pneer Frankl Kameny, eded by Michael G.
As reviewed Washgton History, this volume b Kameny’s own words, cludg approximately 150 documents om his personal papers om 1958 to 1975, wh ntextual analysis and mentary to explore the evolutn of gay rights strategy. “‘Homosexual Cizens’: Washgton’s Gay Communy Cononts the Civil Service” by David K.
Johnson explor the the experienc and ristance of the DC gay muny at the ontl of the ernment’s attempt to purge LGBT people om the Civil Service both before and durg the McCarthy era.
EX-GAYS SCEND UPON D.C. TO LOBBY AGAST LGBTQ RIGHTS
The history of Capal Pri and the LGBTQIA pri para Washgton, D.C., starts on June 22, 1975, the first officially regnized “Gay Pri Day” ... * gay rights dc *
Jeb and Dash: A Diary of Gay Life, 1918-1945, eded by Ina Rsell (Faber & Faber, 1994). The diari of Jeb Alexanr (a psdonym) scribe ordary gay life DC for a U. A Queer Capal: A History of Gay Life Washgton, D.
Washgton’s gay muni survived some of the harsht anti-gay mpaigns the natn, and anized to mand equal treatment. Beemyn explor the impact of DC as a racially segregated cy on the velopment of separate Black and Whe gay social spac.
Gay and lbian anti-discrimatn llectn, 1967-1975. The documents provi tails ncerng Ulrich’s succsful fight to rega his secury clearance after was spend on the basis of his open homosexualy.