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Contents:

• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• GAY MAN BTALLY BEATEN BY ATTACKERS SHOUTG ANTI-LGBTQ+ SLUR
• ‘BARBARIC’ VLENCE AS GAY MAN BTALLY GANG-RAPED BY 3 MEN IN BRAZIL
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
• IS POLICE BTALY A PROBLEM FOR THE GAY COMMUNY?
• THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON
• GAY RIGHTS
• ANTI-GAY BTALY A POLISH TOWN BLAMED ON POISONO PROPAGANDA
• ‘PUMPG’ IS DANGERO NEW FAD AMONG GAY MEN
• LREN GAY CASPER CARROLL COUNTY ARKANSAS
• EXCLUSIVE: GAY RAF VETERAN RELLS BTAL 'WCH-HUNTS' AS PM MAK 'LONG OVERDUE' APOLOGY
• IS KEV CHAMBERL GAY? HIS ADVOCY AGAST GAY BTALY
• POLICE ED TO RAID GAY BARS. NOW THEY MARCH PRI PARAS.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

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GAY MAN BTALLY BEATEN BY ATTACKERS SHOUTG ANTI-LGBTQ+ SLUR

KEY POINTSA 22-year-old gay man  Brazil was attacked by three armed men last weekThe victim is now reverg, and police said they are vtigatg the cintActivists said the asslt was evince of a growg ti of hate crime the untryA 22-year-old gay man Brazil’s southern Santa Catara state was gang-raped and tortured last week what human rights activists scribed as a "btal" and "barbaric" act of vlence amid a growg ti of hate crime the victim, who was not named, was asslted the state's pal cy of Florianópolis by three men armed wh sharp objects who forced him to rve homophobic slurs to his legs, The Guardian reported, cg the activists. In dog so, they lnched the morn lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer movement, creatg a touchstone moment that would fe the next half-century of activist the Supreme Court’s historic legalizatn of same sex marriage 2015, Congrs’s recent approval of the Equaly Act, and the creased acceptance and reprentatn of LGBTQ people popular culture, we have unniably e a long way om the time when ps routely raid gay bars and beg outed nearly guaranteed a person would be labeled a sexual psychopath, blacklisted, ostracized by iends and fay, and legally barred om employment most occupatns, as scribed by John D’E his classic book on the pre-Stonewall era, Sexual Polics, Sexual much ls is known about day-to-day life for LGBTQ people pre-Stonewall, and what took place prr to the rebelln that laid the groundwork for events that would change the urse of morn LGBTQ people have been sexually timate wh others of the same sex sce the begng of time, the social nstctn of a gay inty is a relatively new phenomenon. In the Uned Stat, this has happened mostly wh the last hundred D'E argu his groundbreakg 1993 say, Capalism and Gay Inty, was only through the velopment of palist dtrializatn, the acpanyg expansn of large urban centers, and the transformative effect this procs had on social life that the material ndns for the velopment of LGBTQ inti and muni beme possible.

‘BARBARIC’ VLENCE AS GAY MAN BTALLY GANG-RAPED BY 3 MEN IN BRAZIL

The personal tonomy and privacy afford by cy life allowed for exploratn of non-heterosexual sir and greater genr exprsn, and the velopment of a muny based on those shared terts a way that was generally not possible unr prev “hoehold-fay based” mos of the late 19th and early 20th centuri, an extensive unrground gay world veloped major U.

Genr relatns and sexual behavr were a big part of this shift, as lns of men and women were lled away om their hom and placed overwhelmgly sex-segregated environments, like ary bas, hospals, dtrial factori, ernmental offic, and urban new material ndns, upled wh the emotnally tensive circumstanc of war, enuraged unknown numbers of men and women to explore and pursue homosexual sir and to form timate and meangful same-sex relatnships on a sle that was prevly returng om bat abroad or ary productn at home, many gay men and lbians opted for the pennce offered by Ameri’s urban centers. As Sherry Wolf scrib her book, Sexualy and Socialism, those arrted often had their nam and pictur published newspapers, which often led to beg fired om their job and beg ostracized by iends and the other hand, Amerin society was more ncerned and terted homosexualy than ever before, thanks part to the 1948 publitn of Aled Ksey’s Sexual Behavr the Human Male, which fundamentally transformed the way society unrstood sexualy and quickly beme a media sensatn.

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

The Ksey reports showed that homosexual acts were far more wispread among men than prevly assumed, and nclud that such behavr was not as abnormal as believed and would be more openly practiced if weren’t for societal rtrictns and documented Bronksi’s A Queer History of the Uned Stat, durg the 1950s and early '60s, there was an unparalleled outpourg of reprentatn and discsn of gay people lerature and the media.

However, as D’E explas Sexual Polics, Sexual Communi, like Mattache, the Dghters of Bilis was heavily fluenced by the opprsive climate of McCarthyism and remaed a self-help anizatn for most of s existence, shyg away om open polil agatn and never growg beyond a uple hundred active gay people the 1960s, there was a ntradictn at play.

PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.

As David Carter explas his book, Stonewall: The Rts That Sparked the Gay Revolutn, even as eedom, openns, and a mand for change creased throughout society, many areas (and New York particular) were simultaneoly creasg enforcement of anti-homosexual and genr-policg laws to such an extent that many plac beme effective police stat for LGBTQ people.

IS POLICE BTALY A PROBLEM FOR THE GAY COMMUNY?

Across the natn, genred clothg laws that began to appear the mid-19th century stayed on the books for s, makg variant genr exprsns who were charged wh a sex offense unr dranian laws like the uld lose everythg: profsnal licens, jobs and future prospects, and nnectns wh straight iends and the mid-1960s, thgs started to change the homophile movement.

THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON

As documented by D’E Sexual Polics, Sexual Communi, young homophile activists who had not been polilly active durg McCarthyism began to ph for Mattache to take a more ant, bative stance bee they were spired by Ain-Amerins who fied racist opprsn and a petn to the Supreme Court, Frank Kameny, founr of Mattache’s D. By 1964, progrsive relig lears and homophile activists had band together to create the Council on Relign and the Homosexual to provi servic to gay street youth and create Vanguard, which may have been the first LGBTQ youth anizatn and had a cheeky sensibily about prottg. Arguably, the most important and largt homophile anizatn the untry was San Francis’s Society for Individual Rights, which anized mpaigns agast police entrapment, phed for anti-discrimatn laws, and spearhead buildg a gay muny 1966, San Francis saw s own precursor to the Stonewall nontatn, the Compton Cafeteria Rts.

This spurred other gay ctomers to rist — they turned over tabl, smashed their dish, threw objects through the wdows, and began fightg wh the the Compton Cafeteria, bars provid a place for LGBTQ people to meet one another and socialize a reprsive society, but also ma them targets for police actns.

GAY RIGHTS

The 1969 police raid of the Stonewall Inn, the famed gay bar New York Cy, was no different than many others before s, before and after the rts, some law enforcement officers and agenci targeted known LGBTQ-iendly tablishments an effort to shut them down, btalize patrons, and arrt people who vlated the homophobic and transphobic polici of the time, acrdg to the Natnal Park Foundatn, an anizatn that foc on U. That tersectn is as old as the morn fight for LGTBQ rights, and perhaps no moment illtrat that as well as the movement’s most famo turng pot: the 1969 Stonewall Rts, the uprisg sparked by a police raid at a gay bar New York Cy’s Greenwich Village neighborhood, and the tone to which Pri Month is pegged. The fact that several members of the Black Panther Party, cludg Angela Davis, Afeni Shakur and Joan Bird, had also spent time the prison speaks to the shared nnectns a broar stggle, Ryan says, as lks emerged between the Black Panther Party, the Gay Liberatn Front, radil lbians and the femist and women’s movements.

ANTI-GAY BTALY A POLISH TOWN BLAMED ON POISONO PROPAGANDA

It was after she saw the prison how the opprsn of gay people was nnected to the opprsn of mori that Afeni Shakur went on to anize a meetg between the Black Panther Party and the Gay Liberatn Front at Jane Fonda’s penthoe apartment on the Upper East si 1970.

‘PUMPG’ IS DANGERO NEW FAD AMONG GAY MEN

The feral Natnal Crime Victimizatn Survey reports that between 2012 and 2016, nearly 300, 000 crim were mted agast gay people natnwi, and a signifint percentage of those victims said they weren’t fortable g forward or speakg up about what happened due to fears about how police and law enforcement would treat them. But engagg gay behavr public (holdg hands, kissg or dancg wh someone of the same sex) was still illegal, so police harassment of gay bars ntued and many bars still operated whout liquor licens— part bee they were owned by the Rights Before StonewallThe first documented U.

When The Commissn on Human Rights led that gay dividuals had the right to be served bars, police raids were temporarily Stonewall Inn The crime syndite saw prof terg to shunned gay clientele, and by the mid-1960s, the Genove crime fay ntrolled most Greenwich Village gay bars. Stonewall's LegacyThough the Stonewall uprisg didn’t start the gay rights movement, was a galvanizg force for LGBT polil activism, leadg to numero gay rights anizatns, cludg the Gay Liberatn Front, Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD (formerly Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn), and PFLAG (formerly Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays) the one-year anniversary of the rts on June 28, 1970, thoands of people marched the streets of Manhattan om the Stonewall Inn to Central Park what was then lled “Christopher Street Liberatn Day, ” Ameri’s first gay pri para.

LREN GAY CASPER CARROLL COUNTY ARKANSAS

”In 2016, then-Print Barack Obama signated the se of the rts—Stonewall Inn, Christopher Park, and the surroundg streets and siwalks—a natnal monument regnn of the area’s ntributn to gay Gallery The Stonewall Inn is a bar loted New York Cy’s Greenwich Village that served as a haven the 1960s for the cy’s gay, lbian and transgenr muny. Held the "world’s first permted para advotg for gay rights, " a fact Christopher Street Wt still highlights on s webse to this Shalae, a Beyoncé impersonator who performed at the march, said that when she first moved to Los Angel, she uldn't persua whe-owned LGBTQ bars and clubs to book her for performanc. "Chynal Ldsay was found ad Dallas on Saturday, June 1, Dallas Police DepartmentOn Thursday, 18-year-old Devon Robson was charged nnectn wh the May 25th fatal shootg of three people a home east Detro: two gay men Alunte Davis, 21, Timothy Blancher, 20, and a transgenr woman, Paris Cameron, 20.

In 1984, when Calv Burde was awag sentencg for allegedly stabbg his gay lover to ath, the prosecutg attorney enuraged the jury his closg remarks to award Burde the ath penalty, rather than life prison, on the grounds that sendg a gay man to prison was ak to sendg a kid to a ndy store. His ath sentence was later overturned (mostly bee Burde's public fenr had slept through much of his trial), but the homophobic thkg – that prison is some kd of paradise for gay men – lgers realy of life prison for homosexuals and transgenr dividuals do not appear to reflect this myth. The prison he was first sent to did actually have a separate tier for gay mat, but acrdg to Rodney, bee he did not "appear overly effemate" durg his classifitn, he was placed wh the general populatn; and bee was supposedly rare to have a gay person slip through the cracks of the system, his fellow mat took full advantage.

Jt Detentn Internatnal (JDI), an anizatn whose aim is to eradite prison rape (pdf), is tryg to change has been workg wh the California Department of Correctns and Rehabilatn (CDCR) to tablish "sensive needs yards" (pdf), where gay, transgenr and other vulnerable mat n serve out their time safety. Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels.

EXCLUSIVE: GAY RAF VETERAN RELLS BTAL 'WCH-HUNTS' AS PM MAK 'LONG OVERDUE' APOLOGY

Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group. ”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze. Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review.

That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D.

IS KEV CHAMBERL GAY? HIS ADVOCY AGAST GAY BTALY

”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue. They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn.

POLICE ED TO RAID GAY BARS. NOW THEY MARCH PRI PARAS.

1 / 12: NY Daily News Archive/Getty ImagChristopher Street Liberatn Day Shortly after the Stonewall uprisg, members of the Mattache Society spl off to form the Gay Liberatn Front, a radil group that lnched public monstratns, protts and nontatns wh polil officials. Addnally, several openly LGBTQ dividuals secured public office posns: Kathy Kozachenko won a seat to the Ann Harbor, Michigan, Cy Council 1974, beg the first out Amerin to be elected to public Milk, who mpaigned on a pro-gay rights platform, beme the San Francis cy supervisor 1978, beg the first openly gay man elected to a polil office asked Gilbert Baker, an artist and gay rights activist, to create an emblem that reprents the movement and would be seen as a symbol of pri.

In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn published a report about five prevly healthy homosexual men beg fected wh a rare type of 1984, rearchers had intified the e of AIDS—the human immunoficiency vis, or HIV—and the Food and Dg Admistratn licensed the first mercial blood tt for HIV 1985.

But after failg to garner enough support for such an open policy, Print Clton 1993 passed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy, which allowed gay men and women to serve the ary as long as they kept their sexualy a rights advot cried the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, as did ltle to stop people om beg discharged on the grounds of their 2011, Print Obama fulfilled a mpaign promise to repeal DADT; by that time, more than 12, 000 officers had been discharged om the ary unr DADT for refg to hi their sexualy. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was officially repealed on September 20, Marriage and Beyond In 1992, the District of Columbia passed a law that allowed gay and lbian upl to register as domtic partners, grantg them some of the rights of marriage (the cy of San Francis passed a siar ordance three years prr and California would later extend those rights to the entire state 1999) 1993, the hight urt  Hawaii led that a ban on gay marriage may go agast the state’s nstutn. In 1994, a new anti-hate-crime law allowed judg to impose harsher sentenc if a crime was motivated by a victim’s sexual Matthew Shepard ActCourty of the Matthew Shepard FoundatnMatthew Shepard, who was btally killed a hate crime 2003, gay rights proponents had another b of happy news: the U.