The Gay Liberatn Front platform statement, December 2, 1970. | DPLA

Contents:

• SSI2-117 | COMG OUT! THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) STUDI
• THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT
• STONEWALL AND ITS IMPACT ON THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT
• GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT
• THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT PLATFORM STATEMENT, DECEMBER 2, 1970.
• GAY LIBERATN

SSI2-117 | COMG OUT! THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT

This archive ntas full llectns of materials, such as Gay and Lbian Polics and Social Activism: Selected Newsletters and Perdils om the Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, and Transgenr Historil Society (mostly documentg gay and lbian history San Francis's Bay Area), Phyllis Lyon, Del Mart and the Dghters of Bilis​, and much more. "Digal Transgenr ArchiveAn onle hub for digized historil materials, born-digal materials, and rmatn on archival holdgs throughout the Empty Closet, 1971-2015A newspaper found by Bob Osborn and Larry Fe of the Universy of Rochter Gay Liberatn Front. E., for lbians, gays [homosexual mal], bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons); seeks to elimate sodomy laws; and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life.

) Gay rights prr to the 20th century Relig admonns agast sexual relatns between dividuals of the same sex (particularly men) long stigmatized such behavur, but most legal s Europe were silent on the subject of homosexualy and bisexualy.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Dpe Paragraph 175 and the failure of the WhK to w s repeal, homosexual and bisexual men and women experienced a certa amount of eedom Germany, particularly durg the Weimar perd, between the end of World War I and the Nazi seizure of power. 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. In the 1970s and ’80s, gay polil anizatns proliferated, particularly the Uned Stat and Europe, and spread to other parts of the globe, though their relative size, strength, and succs—and toleratn by thori—varied signifintly. Now headquartered Geneva and renamed the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA World), plays a signifint role ordatg ternatnal efforts to promote human rights and fight discrimatn agast LGBTQ and tersex persons.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) STUDI

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.

At the lol and natnal levels, the number of openly gay policians creased dramatilly durg the 1990s and 2000s, and 2009 Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir beme prime mister of Iceland, which ma her the world’s first openly gay head of ernment.

THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT

In Ai, Asia, and Lat Ameri, openly gay policians have had only limed succs wng office; notable electns to natnal legislatur clud Patria Jiménez Flor Mexi (1997), Mike Waters South Ai (1999), and Clodovil Hernans Brazil (2006). 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).

Ary’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy (1993–2011), which had permted gay and lbian dividuals to serve the ary if they did not disclose their sexual orientatn or engage homosexual activy; the repeal effectively end the ban on homosexuals the ary.

STONEWALL AND ITS IMPACT ON THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT

Hodg), and 2020 the Court termed that firg an employee for beg homosexual or transgenr was a vlatn of Tle VII of the Civil Rights Act (1964), which prohibs discrimatn on the basis of sex (Bostock v.

The liv, eedom stggl, and social and cultural ntributns of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) people make up a rich part of the history of the Uned Stat, and primary sourc om the Library of Congrs provi valuable opportuni to explore dividuals, movements, and events om the natn’s LGBTQ history.

GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT

The polil anizer Bayard Rt was a key strategist for the Ain Amerin civil rights movement of the mid-20th century and a ccial planner of the March on Washgton, though he faced discrimatn bee of his gay inty. Tucson Commissn on Gay, Lbian, Bisexual Transgenred Issu CollectnLearn about documents of the Tucson Commissn, 1999-2007, available the UA Librari Special Liberatn PapersLearn about documents om the gay liberatn movement Arizona available the UA Librari Special Collectns.

Documents the jot and dividual work of life-partners Phyllis Lyon and Del Mart, om the 1950s to the gay rights movement, 1970-1983, Gay Activists Alliance [microfilm]Fd documents of the Gay Activists Alliance om the Internatnal Gay Informatn Center, The New York Public gay rights movement, Mattache Society of New York [microfilm]Fd documents of the Mattache Society of New York, om the Internatnal Gay Informatn Center, the New York Public Library. " The physil archiv are loted New York, but some rourc available onle at this se clu newsletters sent out by the archiv and some digal materials the New York Public LibraryDigized photographs, imag, and other materials om the New York Public Library's extensive LGBT Natnal Gay and Lbian ArchivOnle accs to some of the llectns om one of the largt reposori of LGBTQ materials.

THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT PLATFORM STATEMENT, DECEMBER 2, 1970.

“The fight for digny and equaly for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people is reflected the tirels ditn of advot and alli who strive to fe a more clive society, ” stated Print Obama his 2016 LGBT Pri Month proclamatn. While rearch on the history of the LGBT muny has ually foced on the asts, specifilly New York Cy and San Francis, the first gay rights anizatn to receive a state charter the Uned Stat was the Society for Human Rights tablished Chigo 1924 by Henry Gerber.

GAY LIBERATN

The Divisn of Prervatn and Accs provid support to the ONE Instute Internatnal Gay and Lbian Archiv through a Prervatn Assistance Grant (PG-50549-09) and a Humani Collectns and Reference Rourc grant (PW-50526-10). Although members of the gay muny were divid their opns about the rt, hundreds of people returned to the scene for the next several nights, some to ntue vlent opposn to the police and others to exprs their sexualy public for the first time.

After Stonewall, however, a more radil polil nscns veloped that rulted om the formatn of many new groups, cludg the Gay Liberatn Front and Radilbians, whose members rejected the strategi and lled for a more ant rponse to homophobia.

The papers clud sectns voted to muny updat, cultural events, and personal ads, but they also highlighted new polil ncerns, namely efforts to raise awarens about the problems of gay people prisons and ncerns about gay health. Although many var relig stutns believed homosexualy was sful, some LGBTQ people did not believe that their fah and sexual orientatn were at odds and took shelter relig muni anized by gay people. Public health thori, journalists, doctors, and even many the gay muny blamed gay liberatn and the looseng of sexual rtrictns for the epimic, but no one the medil or scientific muny actually unrstood the behavr of the vis.