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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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Though the raid n now be seen as the straw that broke the mel’s back, had been a long time | Fifty years after the Stonewall rts New York Cy, historian Chris Park explor the background to the events and shows how the episo beme a pivotal moment LGBTQ+ historyEven 1967, when the Brish Parliament voted to partially crimalise homosexualy, the legal and social suatn for many Amerins was still stuck the 1950s.

There was a great al of prejudice agast gay men: they were shut out of most bars, routely targeted by police crackdowns (pecially when there was an upg electn), and general subject to social disapproval, ostracism and, certa occupatns, blackmail. 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.

US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT

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. 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”. ”On the same si: homosexuals durg the Send World War7 thgs you (probably) didn’t know about Osr WilThe Victorians’ surprisgly liberal attu towards gay menSigns of the timFrom slow begngs, the society gradually spread, wh branch around the untry – Chigo, Washgton DC, New York and San Francis.

GAY HISTORY – AUGT 1970: THE GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE AND GAY LIBERATN FRONT BATTLE THE NYPD THE “FOTTEN RT”

There were book reviews, adverts for gay-oriented products and letters om rears – many of whom did not give their full the next , the magaz and their affiliated polil groupgs did their bt to pursue a policy of raisg nscns – ultimately drivg for equaly, the lack of legal harassment, greater tolerance and rpect om the Amerin public, and even gay marriage.

The were ser md, wordy publitns that the late 1950s and early 1960s seemed to be fightg an uphill stggle agast prejudice, fear of exposure, and a lack of self-teem on the part of gay people at York bars were not allowed to serve alhol to the ‘disorrly’, which at the time facto clud homosexuals.

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.

GAY RIGHTS

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.

GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI

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. 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. Compton’s populary among young gay men, htlers and drag queens me om s stat as an all-night venue and the fact that for a long while, the eveng manager was a homosexual man who created a sympathetic atmosphere.

“Wh that, cups, scers and trays began flyg around the place, and all directed at the police, ” Guy Stra – founr of the first gay newspaper San Francis – related the Augt Issue of gay magaze Cise News. Unlike the prev generatn of homophile prottors, they emerged to a different climate both Ameri and Bra, where the bounds of tradnal moraly were beg loosened by a fast movg, experimental mass youth culture and termed activists om right across the spectm of mori. As the button badge stated, ‘Gay is Good’ partially rmed by the hippie/radil movements of the time, the Gay Liberatn Front has proved an endurg ia, stimulatg groups the Wt and other parts of the world specifilly voted to gay (and now LGBTQ+) rights.

Image source, North Country Off Grid/Youtube/via RtersImage ptn, Photos shared on social at the time allegedly showed dozens of the hate group's members beg arrted near the pri eventFive members of a whe supremacist hate group nvicted of plottg to rt at a gay pri event will spend three days jail, a urt has men and dozens other members of the Patrt Front group were arrted last June after a rint spotted them wh masks and shields gettg to a were lled and found rt gear and a smoke grena the lorry was stopped near where the North Idaho Pri Alliance was holdg an event the cy of Cor d'Alene. Even his short story, Everythg We Should Have Said, is unique that nfirms he’s gay and surprisgly revolv around his past relatnship wh Tope, referred to as the Archer K’Sante’s cematic trailer, Defeat Your Monster.

1965: Philalphia – Dewey’s Rtrant S-InDewey's rtrant Philalphia, Pennsylvania as appeared May April 25, 1965, the 17th Street lotn of Dewey’s rtrant Philalphia nied service to approximately 150 people who appeared to be gay or genr non-nformg.

McDarrah/Getty ImagAfter pourg their drks, a bartenr Juli's Bar ref to serve John Timms, Dick Lesch, Craig Rodwell, and Randy Wicker, members of the Mattache Society who were prottg New York liquor laws that prevented servg gay ctomers, 1966. McDarrah/Getty Imag)In sprg 1966, members of the early gay rights anizatn Mattache Society staged a “sip-”—a twist on “s-” prott— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue. 1966–1967: Los Angel – Black Cat Tavern Protts, Los AngelOpened November 1966, Black Cat Tavern was a haven for Silver Lake’s queer muny, who were subjected to harassment om police enforcg anti-homosexualy laws.

Photos shared on social at the time allegedly showed dozens of the hate group's members beg arrted near the pri eventFive members of a whe supremacist hate group nvicted of plottg to rt at a gay pri event will spend three days jail, a urt has men and dozens other members of the Patrt Front group were arrted last June after a rint spotted them wh masks and shields gettg to a were lled and found rt gear and a smoke grena the lorry was stopped near where the North Idaho Pri Alliance was holdg an event the cy of Cor d'Alene. For stance, solicatn of same-sex relatns was illegal New York such reasons, LGBT dividuals flocked to gay bars and clubs, plac of refuge where they uld exprs themselv openly and socialize whout worry.

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. In 1966, three years before Stonewall, members of The Mattache Society, an anizatn dited to gay rights, staged a “sip-” where they openly clared their sexualy at taverns, darg staff to turn them away and sug tablishments who did. 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.

And was one of the few—if not the only—gay bar left that allowed were still a fact of life, but ually rpt ps would tip off Mafia-n bars before they occurred, allowg owners to stash the alhol (sold whout a liquor license) and hi other illegal activi.