Gay and Lbian March on Washgton |

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

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. The divinds of dissent: how nflict and culture work lbian and gay march on Washgton, HQ76.

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.

WHAT IT WAS LIKE AT THE FIRST GAY RIGHTS DEMONSTRATN OUTSI WHE HOE 50 YEARS AGO

— -- 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. 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.

NATNAL MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS

"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. "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.

LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: THE ROAD TO AMERI'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH

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.

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. 10, 1979, and circulated to major gay anizatns and lears throughout the U.

GAY AND LBIAN MARCH ON WASHGTON

Every Fourth of July begng 1965, the Remr march—named after the need to "remd" the public of the opprsn faced by the gay muny—aimed to secure acceptance by showg how unthreateng LGBT people were to the rt of society.

One year later, 1970, activists like Brenda Howard brastormed an alternative set of march that would embrace the new ethos of gay liberatn. ” The march would also be natnal spe— a forhadowg of Pri celebratns today, they wanted "a natnwi show of support" for gay rights. A ntgent at the first Christopher Street Liberatn Day New York clutch a sign that reads "Gay Liberatn, " 1970.

View of the large crowd, some of whom are holdg up handma signs and banners, participatg a gay and lbian pri para the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, 1970. An LGBT para through New York Cy on Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day 1971.