Gay Rights - Movement, Marriage & Flag | HISTORY

Contents:

• GAY RIGHTS
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• THE PK TRIANGLE: FROM NAZI LABEL TO SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
• GAY RIGHTS POSTERS

GAY RIGHTS

Whether or not fluenced his work as a mician is subject to bate, though settg Walt Whman’s poem, “To What You Said” Songft (1977), and featurg a gay character his opera A Quiet Place (1983), were nsired both darg and revealg when they premiered. In 1989, Bernste cled a printial medal of honor as a prott at the Natnal Endowment of the Arts rcdg a grant for a gay-oriented AIDS art exhib; and 1990 he wrote the foreword to the book, The Vyl Closet: Gays the Mic World. In 2011 the tate donated several hundred (prevly sealed) letters to add to the Bernste Collectn that reveal many aspects of gay life, particularly durg the 1940s – a secretive time when was personally and profsnally dangero to document or acknowledge homosexualy.

In addn to letters om var male lovers and iends, there are letters om therapists who worked wh Bernste as he stggled to face his sexualy, and letters om his wife discsg how they might al wh his homosexualy their marriage. Rearchers may browse lists of relevant subject terms such as Gay pri and Gay Rights, or search broadly across all llectns/tegori g a general keywords directly the Prts and Photographs Onle Catalog. Corrponnce, journals, anizatnal fil, speech, wrgs, surveys and qutnnair, prs clippgs, prted matter, amic fil, and other papers relatg to Lilli Vcenz's life as a gay civil rights activist, her work to support and empower lbians and gay men, and her documentatn of the gay and lbian civil rights movement.

The first and most endurg award for LGBTQ books is the Stonewall Book Awards External, sponsored by the Amerin Library Associatn's Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, and Transgenred Round Table. Sce Isabel Miller's “Patience and Sarah” received the first award 1971, many other books have been honored for exceptnal mer relatg to the gay/lbian/bisexual/transgenred experience. Kramer -found the advocy groups GMHC (Gay Men’s Health Crisis) and ACT UP (AIDS Coaln to Unleash Power), which ed the inic SILENCE = DEATH logo that beme a symbol for the AIDS crisis.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

His ntributns to the LGBTQ muny boil down to the impact he ma as a pneer drag, and how “Drag Race” drastilly changed the way lns of Amerins view — and appreciate — a key facet of gay culture. Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter. 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.

Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group. ”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.

THE PK TRIANGLE: FROM NAZI LABEL TO SYMBOL OF GAY PRI

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 1961, Illois beme the first state to do away wh s anti-sodomy laws, effectively crimalizg homosexualy, and a lol TV statn California aired the first documentary about homosexualy, lled The 1965, Dr. ”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. They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn.

After the Stonewall Rts, a msage was pated on the outsi of the board-up bar readg, "We homosexuals plead wh out people to please help mata peaceful and quiet nduct on the streets of the village. " This sign was wrten by the Mattache Society–an early anizatn dited to fightg for gay reportg the events, The New York Daily News rorted to homophobic slurs s tailed verage, nng the headle: “Homo Nt Raid, Queen Be Are Stgg Mad. ”Over the next several nights, gay activists ntued to gather near the Stonewall, takg advantage of the moment to spread rmatn and build the muny that would fuel the growth of the gay rights movement.

GAY RIGHTS POSTERS

Johnson is seen at a Gay Liberatn Front monstratn at Cy Hall New York, a large crowd memorat the 2nd anniversary of the Stonewall rts Greenwich Village of New York Cy 1971. 1 / 12: NY Daily News Archive/Getty ImagChristopher Street Liberatn Day Shortly after the Stonewall uprisg, members of the Mattache Society spl off to form the Gay Liberatn Front, a radil group that lnched public monstratns, protts and nontatns wh polil officials.