LGBT Movements The Uned Stat - Gay Liberatn Fronts - Gay Liberatn Front

Contents:

• INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN
• THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT
• THE HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN
• FROM GAY LIBERATN TO MARRIAGE EQUALY
• QUOT & SAYGS ABOUT GAY LIBERATN
• GAY LIBERATN FRONT
• LGBT MOVEMENTS THE UNED STAT - GAY LIBERATN FRONTS - GAY LIBERATN FRONT
• GAY LIBERATN QUOT
• GAY LIBERATN ONT CROSSWORD CLUE

INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, a former Icelandic Prime Mister and the first openly gay head of state, uttered the words durg a speech at a 2014 Pri ftival.

Arsham Parsi, an Iranian refugee livg Canada exile, has ma his missn to help LGBTQ people livg Iran: a natn where acts of homosexualy are punishable by floggg or even ath. When Harvey Milk beme the first openly gay person elected to public office California, he beme the face of the ph to put more LGBTQ people posns of power. “The next time someone asks you why LGBT Pri march exist or why Gay Pri Month is June tell them ‘A bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thought should be.

“If a transvte don’t say I’m gay and I’m proud and I’m a transvte, then nobody else is gog to hop up there and say I’m gay and I’m proud and I’m a transvte for them. June 28 marks the anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, when members of the LGBTQ muny fought back when police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York's Greenwich Village, 1969.

THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT

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THE HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN

Our society needs to regnize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivol civil equaly for every gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr cizen of this untry. "—From In Search of Our Mothers' Garns: Womanist Prose, 1983"I'd like to see the gay revolutn get started, but there hasn't been any monstratn or anythg recently. If a transvte don't say I'm gay and I'm proud and I'm a transvte, then nobody else is gog to hop up there and say I'm gay and I'm proud and I'm a transvte for them.

"—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).

FROM GAY LIBERATN TO MARRIAGE EQUALY

"—From a CNN terview wh Anrson Cooper, 2013"Every gay and lbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growg up is a survivor.

After Stonewall, her activism ntued—she joed the Gay Liberatn Front, ACT UP, and found the Street Transvte Actn Revolutnari (STAR) wh Sylvia Rivera.

But Rivera, who was a transgenr woman and Lata, faced discrimatn om tablished gay rights anizatns like the GAA that were predomantly led by whe men. ”When John D’E heard a group of LGBTQ activists would be marchg the streets of New York June 1970, he told his boyiend and several of his gay iends.

QUOT & SAYGS ABOUT GAY LIBERATN

“Comg out” me wh threats of vlence and social that changed the aftermath of the 1969 Stonewall uprisg—when a group of LGBTQ people rted rponse to a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York Cy.

GAY LIBERATN FRONT

In 1965, for example, members of the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns (ERCHO) began picketg each year on July 4 outsi Philalphia’s Inpennce Hall. “The homosexual who wants to live a life of self-fulfillment our current society has all the rds stacked agast them, ” read one 1970 article about the upg march the Gay Liberatn Front News.

” The same day, a small group of San Francisns marched down Polk Street, then had a “gay-” piic that was broken up by equtrian and other New York groups had spent months planng the Manhattan event wh the help of anizers like Brenda Howard, a bisexual activist who had cut her anizg teeth durg the anti-Vietnam movement of the late 1960s. LAPD chief Edward Davis had a history of bashg LA’s gay muny, pared activists to bank robbers, and said the group would have to pay $1, 500 and post a $1.

LGBT MOVEMENTS THE UNED STAT - GAY LIBERATN FRONTS - GAY LIBERATN FRONT

Though the 1969 NACHO meetg Kansas Cy was the largt gatherg of gay and lbian activists to date, the nference took place jt weeks after Stonewall. Their publitns created the sense of natnal muny that beme realized after Stonewall, and many homophile activists ntributed to the formatn of gay liberatn anizatns.

GAY LIBERATN QUOT

On the 27th June, 1969 as part of s policy of raidg and closg Gay Bars, the New York Police arrived at the Stonewall Inn to rough up the ctomers and make a few arrts. On the 4th July Lbians and Gay Men om the Matache Society New York, rponse to the rts, staged a walk-out and moved to the Alternative Universy Greenwich Village where they found what beme the Gay Liberatn Front.

GAY LIBERATN ONT CROSSWORD CLUE

“Not only did liberatnists go to Philalphia to show solidary wh the black movement, but was there that Huey Newton as lear of the Panthers, first gave clear support of the Gay Cse, sayg that homosexuals were maybe the most opprsed people of Amerin society, and uld well be the most revolutnary.

On 13th November, GLF ma the first ever, public monstratn the UK by lbians and gay men at Highbury Fields, Islgton, to prott the e of “pretty policemen” agent provotrs ed by the police to entrap gay men to attemptg acts of gross cency, a standard police practice and an easy way for them to crease the figur for crime tectn and prosecutn.