<strong>The long read</strong>: A police raid on a gay bar New York led to the birth of the Pri movement half a century ago – but the fight for LGBTQ+ rights go back much further than that
Contents:
- INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN
- HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
- GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- GAY RIGHTS
- PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI
INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN
Gay rights movement, civil rights movement that advot equal rights for LGBTQ persons—that is, for lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons—and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life. * gay liberation movement slogans *
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HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
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. * gay liberation movement slogans *
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Proud to be a cheap gayI love my gay hbandLove is clive, diverse, limls, and betifulBe proud of beg differentPut yourself out thereDon’t be aaid to be a better versn of yourselfHearts not partsEveryone serv equaly and rpectLove is not a choiceEveryone is differentBoys will be boysBe yourself even if they sff and stareIn the end, ’s love that matters mostBe yourselfStand wh LGBTQ is an clive munyDo but don’t boastJt love, love is loveHate will never wDonate to helpAbove all else, be proud of who you areWe are all unirnsHate has no place our natn’s te to yourselfWe started a changePlease don’t stereotypeIf you believe equaly, say y to equal marriageGo far. Make the world a better placeThk aga about the words you’re gLove each otherFreedom to be ourselvBe yourselfOut loudLove your body, love your lifeLove nquers hateBe proud of yourselfLegalizg gay marriage lawsStandg up for priYou don’t have to be loud to be out and proudLife isn’t black and whe.
GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
It’s rabowIt’s time to e out of the closetLive, love, lghWe’re all created equal, we’re all born equalDon’t ask don’t tellDon’t be a haterDiversy is strengthSpeak the language of love and peaceCelebrate pri not prejudiceDon’t be silentKiss me the raVote for equal rightsWe are proud of who we areKeep dreamg, keep lghg, keep lovgYour life will be better wh This is what equaly looks likeIt’s everyone’s battle to fight homophobiaWe’re all fayWe’re here, we’re queer, get ed to Never give up on someone elseCheck your privilegeSpread the loveNothg to be ashamed aboutLive the life that you want to liveDon’t hate to be happy! Pri month don’t end when the month is overPray for loveDon’t be aaid to be fabuloMay we someday live a world whout hateCome outDon’t be aaid to e out as gay or lbianOnly you n be youFreedom is never really eeLove who you love, and let your fay fall love tooShow who you really areCelebrate diversy, pri wh your iends this pri monthBe yourselfLove is love, got to give awayNo one is ee until we’re all eeLove is not a sNo matter who you love, that’s okFight like a girlBe a learKeep lm and be proudDog what naturally wh priRemember we’re all human! If we don’t face , we ndone Diversy mak our pla betifulAcceptance is the key to lifeYou n pee next to meLove for all mak the untry strongerMake your own lEvery person untsNo matter what genr you loveYou n do what you love and still be yourselfDon’t be a homophobeVisibily is everythgStop hate s tracksRabow is the new black!
Your love is validEqualy for all, not jt someIt’s so gay to be straightLock your love wh a rabow of priLove always wsProud to be youYou don’t need a reason to share your loveLove nquers allRpect your inty and others tooLove is your choicePro-gay and ChristianLove is equalLive boldly. Be give up hope for equalyIt’s okay to be differentI love you bee you’re gayConcln: Pri Slogans and TaglWhether you ll gay pri, LGBTQ pri, or if you’re om a place where ’s lled somethg else entirely, what likely un most people celebratg this month is their will to be proud of who they you have folks, a huge list of attractive slogans for LGBT rights, gay equaly, and gay pri. Five months after the rts, activists Craig Rodwell, his partner Fred Sargeant, Ellen Brody and Lda Rhos proposed a rolutn at the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns (ERCHO) Philalphia that a march be held New York Cy to memorate the one-year anniversary of the raid.
”Spencer Grant/Getty ImagView 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 San Francis, activists marched down Polk Street and held a “Gay-” at Goln Gate Park on June 28th, too.
GAY RIGHTS
"—From an terview Out of the Closets: Voic of Gay Liberatn, 1972"Our strategy is how we pe—how we measure and weigh what is to be said and when, what is to be done and how, and to whom, daily cidg/riskg who is we n ll an ally, ll a iend (whatever that person's sk, sex, or sexualy). 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, three members of the Mattache Society, an early anizatn dited to fightg for gay rights, staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s.
But between New York’s LGBTQ muny the 1960s beg forced to live on the outskirts of society and the Mafia’s disregard for the law, the two beme a profable, if uneasy, State Liquor Authory and the New York Police Department regularly raid bars that tered to gay patrons. In the Uned Stat this greater visibily brought some backlash, particularly om the ernment and the police: the ernment often fired gay civil servants, the ary attempted to purge s ranks of gay soldiers (a policy enacted durg World War II), and police vice squads equently raid gay bars and arrted their patrons.
In the Uned Stat the first major male anizatn, found 1950–51 by Harry Hay Los Angel, was the Mattache Society (s name reputedly rived om a medieval French society of masked players, the Société Mattache, to reprent the public “maskg” of homosexualy), while the Dghters of Bilis (named after the Sapphic love poems of Pierre Louÿs, Chansons Bilis), found 1955 by Phyllis Lyon and Del Mart San Francis, was a leadg group for women. In Bra 1957 a missn chaired by Sir John Wolfenn issued a groundbreakg report (see Wolfenn Report) remendg that private homosexual liaisons between nsentg adults be removed om the doma of crimal law; a later the remendatn was implemented by Parliament the Sexual Offenc Act.
PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI
This support, along wh mpaigns by gay activists urgg gay men and women to “e out of the closet” (ed, the late 1980s, Natnal Comg Out Day was tablished, and is now celebrated on October 11 most untri), enuraged gay men and women to enter the polil arena as ndidat.
Other issu of primary importance for the gay rights movement sce the 1970s clud batg the HIV/AIDS epimic and promotg disease preventn and fundg for rearch; lobbyg ernment for nondiscrimatory polici employment, hog, and other aspects of civil society; endg the ban on ary service for gay and lbian dividuals; expandg hate crim legislatn to clu protectns for gays, cludg transgenr dividuals; and securg marriage rights for same-sex upl (see same-sex marriage). 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. ”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. ”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.