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Contents:
- UNRSTANDG LOS ANGEL (AND WT HOLLYWOOD) GAY HISTORY: CONTUY AND DISNTUY
- MOVG TO LGBT LOS ANGEL, CALIFORNIA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
- THE STGGL AND TRIUMPHS OF GROWG UP BROWN AND GAY IN LA
- GAYT PLAC IN CALIFORNIA FOR 2020
- THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL
- QUé PASó N EL ENOLA GAY, EL BOMBARRO QUE LANZó LA PRIMERA BOMBA ATóMI LA HISTORIA
- RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS
UNRSTANDG LOS ANGEL (AND WT HOLLYWOOD) GAY HISTORY: CONTUY AND DISNTUY
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Don Kilhefner, a chronicler and creator of gay history, explas how we got to where we are today and fantasiz about where we may move the future. WeHo Pri 2019, on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebelln, the very reason for Pri’s existence, pletely ignored that earth-shakg event, pretendg like had never LA LGBT Center’s attempted 2019 to falsely rewre s early history and rrectly ced 1969 as the date for s 50th anniversary celebratn even though 1971 was the date ed to memorate s 25th Archiv refed to operate an attempt to provi a venue to asss the impact of Stonewall on the velopment of the Los Angel gay vic 1967 LAPD raid on the Black Cat, a Silver Lake gay bar, and s aftermath is skewed today to the pot of misreprentatn, and there are other exampl. To honor the seven men—Harry Hay, Bob Hull, Chuck Rowland, Rudi Gernreich, Dale Jenngs, Jam Gber, Konrad Stevens—who rpond to Hay’s origal ll for a homosexual anizatn that 1951 beme the Mattache Society, named after the masked mattachi urt jters of medieval Europe thought by Hay to be largely homosexual men.
Mattache reprented the first succsful attempt at anizg Amerin gay men and lbians and ed their opprsor’s word, “homosexual, ” to scribe themselv.
THE STGGL AND TRIUMPHS OF GROWG UP BROWN AND GAY IN LA
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Until the 1969 Stonewall Rebelln, protective super-paranoia based on dividual safety and survival om hetero supremacists’ vlence and physil and psychologil genoci characterized homosexual realy.
History, homosexuals intified themselv as an opprsed mory group, affirmed that there was such a thg as a homosexual culture, implied, but never actualized, llective polil actn, and anized succsful, but secret, discsn groups entirely by word of mouth. In a pneerg and remarkable manner at that time, homosexuals began to dialogue wh each other about their opprsn as they experienced —often cel and adly.
GAYT PLAC IN CALIFORNIA FOR 2020
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(a name rived om Thomas Carlyle’s “A mystic bond of brotherhood mak all men one”) replaced Mattache and started g the scriptive term “homophile” (lover of man or same), importantly broang inty om a solely sexual fn to also clu relatnship. A cir 1965As Mattache had started homosexuals talkg to each other about their opprsn, albe secretly, the Homophile era was important that, through s pneerg publitns, the wrten word also me out of the closet for the first time.
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For them, assiatn meant homosexuals need to adjt to the domance of heterosexual culture, stutns, and social norms, which they believed would lead to social acceptance.
Addnal fg characteristics of the Homophile era clud nyg that a homosexual culture existed, law reform was a panacea, advot for social acceptance for homophil should not be homophil themselv but hetero profsnals (misters, attorneys, psychologists and psychiatrists), and, for safety purpos, psdonyms were wily ed to shield real inti. The bt acunt of the Mattache and Homophile perds is gay historian John D’E’s “Sexual Polics, Sexual Communi: The Makg of a Homosexual Mory the Uned Stat, 1940-1970. D’E, lookg back over the attempted erasure of Mattache and the ascenncy of the Homophile effort, wr, “In sum, acmodatn to social norms replaced the affirmatn of a distctive gay inty, llective effort gave way to dividual actn, and nfince the abily of gay men and lbians to terpret their own experience yield to the wisdom of the experts.
QUé PASó N EL ENOLA GAY, EL BOMBARRO QUE LANZó LA PRIMERA BOMBA ATóMI LA HISTORIA
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On June 28, 1969, at a Mafia-owned dive New York Cy, a global social revolutn of major proportns was lnched, and the liv and well-beg of gay and lbian people the U. It is important to unrstand historilly that New York Cy, Los Angel, San Francis and elsewhere the seeds and spiratn for the early Gay Liberatn revolutn did not e om eher the Mattache or the Homophile efforts, whose history most people were unaware of, even many members of the Gay Liberatn Front of Los Angel (GLF), whose cy that history rid. Gay Liberatn was seed largely by the spiratn of and molg by the bravery of lunch unter s-s by black llege stunts, water hos and the ant black civil rights movement, the -your-face anti-Vietnam War protters, early femist thought and actn, and the righteons and zeal of numero other social jtice/social change movements.
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Before Stonewall, many gay and lbian people were actively engaged a myriad of progrsive social change efforts, sometim learship posns, but the closet due to the vilent and stutnalized hetero supremacy progrsive circl and society general.