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Contents:
- 9 MOVI ABOUT GAY ACTIVISM TO HONOR STONEWALL (THAT AREN’T ‘STONEWALL’)
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
9 MOVI ABOUT GAY ACTIVISM TO HONOR STONEWALL (THAT AREN’T ‘STONEWALL’)
After beg oted om the U.S. ary for beg gay, she beme an early fighter for gay rights and a proment figure the nascent L.G.B.T.Q. rights movement. * gay activist movie *
The Tim of Harvey Milk (1984)Usg a batn of archive footage, talkg heads and narratn provid by Harvey Fierste, prolific queer documentarian Rob Epste retells the polil reer of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official California. The lo-fi, jerry-rigged films were a llective riposte to Hollywood’s prejudiced moralism at the time, which largely – even after the ath of the inic Rock Hudson – ignored the plight of gay Amerins. The mafia-n gay bar the Wt Village New York Cy played backdrop to a heated and vlent nontatn between drag queens, genr non-nformg dividuals (many of them black and brown) and the NYPD when the place was raid by police officers.
Bee the fight for equaly needs to be an tersectnal one, equally attuned to homophobia as to racism, to transphobia as to sexism, takg on gentrifitn and immigratn, mental health and labor laws — issu the films tackle ways both didactic and entertag. Based on Cuban wrer Realdo Arenas’ tobgraphy of the same tle, the film tails the openly gay Arenas’ arrt for his sexualy, his eventual pe to New York, his life there wh his iend and partner, and his ath as a victim of the AIDS crisis. Luis Mola (William Hurt) and Valent Arregui (Raúl Julia) fd themselv together the same cell 1970s Buenos Air, the former for prumably rptg a mor (a phemism for those wh homosexual proclivi), the latter for his nnectns to a revolutnary group.
She was black, queer, and trans — and fearlsly advoted for her rights and the rights of the LGBTQ muny at a time when dog so put her safety jeopardy.“As long as gay people don’t have their rights all across Ameri, there’s no reason for celebratn,” she once said.Johnson was a key figure of the 1960s gay rights movement the US and, as legend has , threw the brick that igned the famo Stonewall rts, which were the talyst for the movement and have spired many Pri march ever sce.In 1992, Johnson’s body was found the Hudson River. She was once arrted for attemptg to climb through a wdow ( a drs and heels) to a room where the New York Cy Council was batg a gay rights bill, NBC reported.“Sylvia’s role gay history was that she was one of the first people to highlight that our movement need to be more clive of people who did not f the mastream,” Carrie Davis, Chief Programs and Policy Officer at New York Cy’s LGBT Communy Center, told NBC News.3.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
In a untry where police officer entrap members of the LGBTQ muny through text msag and beat those they perceive to be gay, Nkom bravely fights for rights on behalf of the LGBTQ muny.Though Nkom intifi as heterosexual, she has dited her work to fightg for Cameroon’s LGBTQ muny and found the Associatn for the Defence of Homosexualy 2003.