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LLIE+LOHMAN MM OF GAY & LBIAN ART
First tablished 1966, the Black Cat Tavern was a popular gay bar Los Angel known for beg one of the first plac to hoe the rts prottg police harassment of LGBTQ people — takg place two years before the famed Stonewall rts. This event is creded wh brgg further awarens to police hostily toward the gay populatn. If you know anythg about LGBTQ culture, ’s likely that you’ve at least heard of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official California.
This lotn ultimately beme the center of the neighborhood’s growg gay muny and the mpaign headquarters for his var ns for office. Listed as a US Natnal Historic Landmark, this home Chigo was origally the home of Henry Gerber, the founr of the Society for Human Rights — the first Amerin anizatn workg for gay rights. Not only that, but that same year, along wh other members of the anizatn, the first gay perdil US history lled Friendship and Freedom was created.
Though the society end only a year later due to police raids and tense scty, this first gay rights anizatn is now nsired an credibly important part of history. Known as New York Cy’s olst ntuoly operatg gay bar, Juli was opened 1840 and began attractg gay patrons the 1950s — although the management staff refed to acknowledge their prence. Robert Mart found the Stunt Homophile League, wh permissn om Columbia Universy, Barnard College, and relig advisors.
10 UNR-THE-RADAR GAY HISTORY S NYC
In 1970, the group changed their name to the Gay People at Columbia (or Gay People at Columbia-Barnard). Sce s creatn, the Gay People at Columbia group has ma substantial chang the LGBT scene at the universy and beyond.
Consired to be the father of gay rights activism, Dr. Kameny moved to a rince Washgton, DC that soon thereafter beme the headquarters for a gay civil rights anizatn that began the 1960s. In fact, acrdg to the Natnal Park Service, the Kameny Hoe “served as a meetg place, archiv, rmal unselg center, headquarters of the Mattache Society, and a safe haven for visg gay and lbian activists.
” Some time after movg to the home, Kameny found the Mattache Society, which later beme a trailblazg LGBTQ rights anizatn — and eventually helped overturn the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s fn of homosexualy as a mental illns.