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GAY PNEERS
* gay pioneers film *
Cast & crew200127mA look back at one of the first homosexual civil rights monstratns the US. July 4th 1965 PhilalphiaA look back at one of the first homosexual civil rights monstratns the US. Gay Pneers is the story of the first anized annual “homosexual” civil rights monstratns held Philalphia, New York and Washgton, DC om 1965-69.
When few would publicly intify themselv as gay, the brave pneers challenged pervasive homophobia. On July 4, 1965, forty (40) people rried signs ont of Inpennce Hall supportg gay emancipatn. That led to the then largt gatherg for gays and lbians when between two to five thoand people ngregated New York’s Central Park.
The 1970 monstratn enuraged activists to stage the first gay pri para NYC. Gay Pneers is directed by PBS award-wng documentary filmmaker Glenn Holsten and produced by PBS affiliate WHYY and Equaly Fom. It is about the gay and lbian Rosa Parks.
GAY PNEERS
Gay Pneers braids archival footage om the semal monstratns; FBI vtigative fil obtaed unr the Freedom of Informatn Act; gay pneer terviews about the homophobia of that era, the protol for the monstratns and how those monstratns impacted the movement and Barbara Gtgs, Frank Kameny and Lilli Vcenz on-mera 2004 discsg same-sex marriage. LESSON PLAN – Tips for Teachg wh Gay Pneers. Showg at a meetg of a stunt club (monly known as a Gay-Straight Alliance, or GSA), and leadg a discsn afterward (you n e some of the qutns this gui to help you do so).
McCarthyism: Named for Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisns), a perd the early 1950s when the ernment sought to expose Communists, LGBT people and other polil dissints (often intified as homosexual) om Amerin public life. Homophile Movement: The post-World War II polil movement to crease unrstandg of gay men and lbians and to bat social and legal persecutn.
Mattache Society: An early homophile group started Los Angel the early 1950s, which had chapters several U. Annual Remr: An annual picket march outsi Inpennce Hall Philalphia 1965-69 to “remd” Amerins that homosexuals were entled to equal treatment like all other cizens.