A look back at a major turng pot the stggle for gay rights
Contents:
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS THE UNED STAT: NATNAL MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS
- WHAT IT WAS LIKE AT THE FIRST GAY RIGHTS DEMONSTRATN OUTSI WHE HOE 50 YEARS AGO
- NATNAL MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS
- LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: THE ROAD TO AMERI'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH
- GAY AND LBIAN MARCH ON WASHGTON
A BRIEF HISTORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS THE UNED STAT: NATNAL MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS
Pl Kuntzler said that when he picketed the Whe Hoe 50 years ago today, he uld not image how far the gay rights movement would e five s. * first gay march on washington *
Protect gay and lbian youth om any laws which are ed to discrimate agast, oppose and/or harass them their hom, schools, jobs and social environments.
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WHAT IT WAS LIKE AT THE FIRST GAY RIGHTS DEMONSTRATN OUTSI WHE HOE 50 YEARS AGO
* first gay march on washington *
Marks Ridger, ed., Speakg for Our Liv: Historic Speech and Rhetoric for Gay and Lbian Rights (1892-2000), available as an eBook (2012) through Howard Universy Librari. — -- Pl Kuntzler said that when he and ne other people picketed the Whe Hoe 50 years ago today, prottg the ernment's treatment of gays and lbians, he uld not image how far the gay rights movement would e five prott on April 17, 1965, is believed to the first gay rights monstratn, advot say.
”The group was mostly fightg for gays and lbians to keep their ernment jobs.
Fifty years later, Kuntzler, who spent his life workg for gay rights, is astonished by how the untry has evolved and the stris the muny has ma.
NATNAL MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS
On April 25, 1993, the March on Washgton for Lbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberatn took place Washgton, D.C. and drew an timated 1 ln people. * first gay march on washington *
Protters march the first gay rights prott outsi the Whe Hoe Washgton, April 17, NewsThe Washgton rint add: "We uld not nceive then the astonishg progrs we would eventually make as a muny. The ia that gay people, gay men and women, uld work openly the ernment and serve the ary. "For others, 's hard to image what life would be like if weren't for the pneers at the Whe Hoe picket like Kuntzler, Barbara Gtgs or Frank Kameny, who all went on to be lears the gay rights movement.
LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: THE ROAD TO AMERI'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH
"Protters march the first gay rights prott outsi the Whe Hoe Washgton, April 17, NewsFor Kuntzler there is a sense of acplishment. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, on October 14, 1979, an timated 75, 000 to 125, 000 lbians and gay men om all across Ameri marched on Washgton at a moment the movement’s history that was remarkably different om the current one.
This was the first such March on Washgton staged by Amerin gays, renrg llective memory as the symbolic g out and birth of a natnal movement for lbian and gay rights. Gleang sights to why this march happened and how was anized both memorat the 25th anniversary of the event and offers clu to ntemporary gay culture and polics.
GAY AND LBIAN MARCH ON WASHGTON
The gay liberatn movement of the late 1970’s legimized a range of that was advancg by lkg self to other grassroots monstratns, pecially the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washgton. Such nnectns helped to tablish the movement as a progrsive one and also emphasized the need for an tonomo lbian and gay polil prence.