History of the Anti-Gay Movement Sce 1977 | Southern Poverty Law Center

Contents:

• GAY HISTORY – JULY 3, 1981: NEW YORK TIM PUBLISH “RARE CANCER SEEN IN 41 HOMOSEXUALS” [ARTICLE INCLUD]
• GAY RIGHTS
• HISTORY OF THE ANTI-GAY MOVEMENT SCE 1977

GAY HISTORY – JULY 3, 1981: NEW YORK TIM PUBLISH “RARE CANCER SEEN IN 41 HOMOSEXUALS” [ARTICLE INCLUD]

But the doctors who have ma the diagnos, mostly New York Cy and the San Francis Bay area, are alertg other physicians who treat large numbers of homosexual men to the problem an effort to help intify more s and to rce the lay offerg chemotherapy sudn appearance of the ncer, lled Kaposi's Sara, has prompted a medil vtigatn that experts say uld have as much scientific as public health importance bee of what may teach about termg the of more mon typ of ncer. But the recent s, doctors at ne medil centers New York and seven hospals California have been diagnosg the ndn among younger men, all of whom said the urse of standard diagnostic terviews that they were homosexual. Friedman-Kien, the reportg doctors said that most s had volved homosexual men who have had multiple and equent sexual enunters wh different partners, as many as 10 sexual enunters each night up to four tim a of the patients have also been treated for viral fectns such as herp, cytomegalovis and hepatis B as well as parasic fectns such as amebiasis and giardiasis.

GAY RIGHTS

The Gay Black Group (formed 1981 by a number of Black and Asian gay and lbian people who found that most LGBTQ+ groups had a lack of mory members, makg hard for them to fd empathy and people to talk to who would unrstand) approached the Greater London Council 1982 to requt fundg. In 2003, Stonewall was granted charable stat and has sce gone on to help achieve the equalisatn of the age of nsent, lift the ban on LGB people servg the ary, secure legislatn which allowed same-sex upl to adopt, helped secure civil partnerships and then same-sex marriage and ensured that the recent Equaly Act protected lbian, gay and bi people terms of goods and servic. For example, the UK’s ernment add Sectn 28 to their Lol Government Act that ma illegal for lol thori to support anythg that promoted homosexual relatnships as an alternative to a heterosexual “fay life”.

The CIRP Frhman Survey measured one aspect of this by requtg that rponnts dite their level of agreement or disagreement wh the statement “It is important to have laws prohibg homosexual relatnships. However, over the s the CIRP Frhman Survey has moved om askg about laws prohibg same-sex relatnships to not only askg stunts their sexual orientatn, but solicg their opn on views such as “Same-sex upl should have the right to legal maral stat” (2015) and “Gays and lbians should have the right to adopt a child” (2013); 2013, 83. The year is 1981, and if you were a homosexual man (mostly whe) lookg for some fun the unrporated part of Los Angel County unofficially known as Wt Hollywood, then you had plenty to choose om a long list of nightlife gay bars, diss, rtrants, bathho and gay-owned bs terg to the gay-gay-gay!

The image you see above, shared by WeHo history buff Mark Donnell, shows a double spread ad taken om a Data Boy Magaze 1981, which was one of the gay rags that uld be found lol WeHo bs stacked next to an issue of Frontiers Magaze. Mother Lo was upgrad and looks very different than s origal 80s versn, but for the most part has managed to stay Mother were the gay-owned clothg stor, rtrants and retail spac:The Sports Locker was suated at 8853 Santa Moni Boulevard.

HISTORY OF THE ANTI-GAY MOVEMENT SCE 1977

But the doctors who have ma the diagnos, mostly New York Cy and the San Francis Bay area, are alertg other physicians who treat large numbers of homosexual men to the problem an effort to help intify more s and to rce the lay offerg chemotherapy treatment. 1974 April The Archdce of New York lls on the New York Cy Council to reject a proposed antidiscrimatn bill aimed at gays and lbians the areas of employment, hog and public acmodatns, bee is “ntrary to the bt terts of society” and will “damage the te civil rights e this cy. ” A firtorm of ntroversy follows, wh the NYPD, Fire Department, and the Brooklyn Dce all jog wh the Archdce to oppose the bill, while gay activists, cludg Digny, hold several monstratns favor of .

” While Chigo’s Archbishop, John Cardal Cody keeps “a safe distance” om the service, is scribed as the only “worship service nducted specifilly for gay Catholics a dcan church wh the full knowledge, if not tac support, of the area’s top prelate. Febary Bishop Francis Mugavero of the Dce of Brooklyn issu a “pastoral letter fendg the ‘legimate’ rights of all people cludg homosexuals, ” and urgg “‘prits, unselors, and others to exprs ncern and passn for those…who experience pa and nfn due to a sexual orientatn.

” The letter furthermore “urge[s] homosexual men and women to avoid intifyg their personhood wh their sexual orientatns, ” and stat that homosexualy should not be one’s claim to “acceptance or human rights. John McNeill, a Ju prit om New York, publish a book entled The Church and the Homosexual that fends the moraly of homosexual relatnships and urg the Church to evaluate both heterosexual and homosexual relatnships acrdg to the “same ethil standards of mutual love.