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Contents:
- THE STONEWALL RTS: THE FLASHPOT THAT LNCHED THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT THE US
- US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
- GAY HISTORY – AUGT 1970: THE GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE AND GAY LIBERATN FRONT BATTLE THE NYPD THE “FOTTEN RT”
- GAY RIGHTS
- GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI
THE STONEWALL RTS: THE FLASHPOT THAT LNCHED THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT THE US
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US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
The 1969 Stonewall Rts marked a historic turng pot for gay rights, but several smaller uprisgs preced Stonewall as LGBTQ muni phed back agast harassment and equaly. * riot august gay *
The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn still held that homosexualy was a psychiatric disorr, which meant that some circumstanc gay people were sent to mental 1960s Ameri, men uld be arrted for merely drsg as women.
GAY HISTORY – AUGT 1970: THE GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE AND GAY LIBERATN FRONT BATTLE THE NYPD THE “FOTTEN RT”
If you thk the Stonewall Rts was the only prott New York Cy over police harassment the gay muny thk aga. In 1970 after the first… * riot august gay *
By 1969, years of mted, albe small sle activism and the velopment of a subterranean gay market had rulted the persistence of small gay muni ci around the US – wh particular ncentratns San Francis, New York and Los Angel.
GAY RIGHTS
The Stonewall Rts, also lled the Stonewall Uprisg, took place on June 28, 1969, New York Cy, after police raid the Stonewall Inn, a lol gay club. The raid sparked a rt among bar patrons and neighborhood rints as police hled employe and patrons out of the bar, leadg to six days of protts and vlent clash. The Stonewall Rts served as a talyst for the gay rights movement. * riot august gay *
The drive for homosexual equaly had begun the early 1950s, the darkt days of the McCarthy era, when the thor Donald Webster Cory had intified the penalti for ankns as beg “so great that pretence is almost universal”.
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GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI
The June 1969 Stonewall rts New York sparked the gay rights movement. But three years earlier, unrt San Francis marked the transgenr muny's public but the rights stggle. * riot august gay *
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As the Eastern Mattache Magaze observed June 1965, notg the ‘15th’ anniversary year of the homophile movement: “The method of keepg mory groups ‘ their place’ is by havg the majory opprs them, still fear them and nvce them of their lack of worth. ”Neverthels by 1965 the succs of the Civil Rights movement gave the homophile movement spiratn: as the Mattache Review noted that year, “For the first time history, homosexuals are on the march. Their spread was massive, pared to the homophile movement magaz: 1965, one tle, Tomorrow’s Man, had a circulatn of 100, 000 pi – at least 20 tim that of ONE – while the timated monthly sal of all tl was around 750, 000.
In fosterg the ia that there was a history and even an athetic of homosexualy, there was an implic enuragement for gay people to regnise that they were part of somethg bigger than their often-isolated rts led to a bloom of gay rights ralli and pri events that gradually spread across the US.
The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage. * riot august gay *
Sometime Augt – the exact date is not known – about 50 or 60 young gay men and drag queens went on the rampage, furiated by heavy-hand and tsive policg si an tablishment that they felt to be a safe-haven, Compton’s Cafeteria San Francis’s Tenrlo district.