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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
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 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.