Gay rights movement | Defn & History | Branni

Contents:

• “BY THE TIME OF HAD 50 TO 60 GAY GROUPS THE UNTRY. A YEAR LATER...1500.”
• GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• STONEWALL INN NAMED NATNAL MONUMENT, A FIRST FOR THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE
• AT STONEWALL INN, A GAY RIGHTS LANDMARK, A VIGIL PRI AND ANGER

“BY THE TIME OF HAD 50 TO 60 GAY GROUPS THE UNTRY. A YEAR LATER...1500.”

For stance, solicatn of same-sex relatns was illegal New York such reasons, LGBT dividuals flocked to gay bars and clubs, plac of refuge where they uld exprs themselv openly and socialize whout worry. But engagg gay behavr public (holdg hands, kissg or dancg wh someone of the same sex) was still illegal, so police harassment of gay bars ntued and many bars still operated whout liquor licens— part bee they were owned by the Rights Before StonewallThe first documented U. In 1966, three years before Stonewall, members of The Mattache Society, an anizatn dited to gay rights, staged a “sip-” where they openly clared their sexualy at taverns, darg staff to turn them away and sug tablishments who did.

GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI

When The Commissn on Human Rights led that gay dividuals had the right to be served bars, police raids were temporarily Stonewall Inn The crime syndite saw prof terg to shunned gay clientele, and by the mid-1960s, the Genove crime fay ntrolled most Greenwich Village gay bars. And was one of the few—if not the only—gay bar left that allowed were still a fact of life, but ually rpt ps would tip off Mafia-n bars before they occurred, allowg owners to stash the alhol (sold whout a liquor license) and hi other illegal activi. Stonewall's LegacyThough the Stonewall uprisg didn’t start the gay rights movement, was a galvanizg force for LGBT polil activism, leadg to numero gay rights anizatns, cludg the Gay Liberatn Front, Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD (formerly Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn), and PFLAG (formerly Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays) the one-year anniversary of the rts on June 28, 1970, thoands of people marched the streets of Manhattan om the Stonewall Inn to Central Park what was then lled “Christopher Street Liberatn Day, ” Ameri’s first gay pri para.

”In 2016, then-Print Barack Obama signated the se of the rts—Stonewall Inn, Christopher Park, and the surroundg streets and siwalks—a natnal monument regnn of the area’s ntributn to gay Gallery The Stonewall Inn is a bar loted New York Cy’s Greenwich Village that served as a haven the 1960s for the cy’s gay, lbian and transgenr muny.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

”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. Stonewall rts, also lled Stonewall uprisg, seri of vlent nontatns that began the early hours of June 28, 1969, between police and gay rights activists outsi the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar the Greenwich Village sectn of New York Cy. Olr groups such as the Mattache Society, which was found southern California as a discsn group for gay men and had flourished the 1950s, soon ma way for more radil groups such as the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF) and the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA).

STONEWALL INN NAMED NATNAL MONUMENT, A FIRST FOR THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

In addn to lnchg numero public monstratns to prott the lack of civil rights for gay dividuals, the anizatns often rorted to such tactics as public nontatns wh polil officials and the disptn of public meetgs to challenge and to change the mor of the tim.

HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE

The events durg that six-day perd are seen as a key turng pot and a talyst for explosive growth a gay rights movement that began the Uned Stat 1950 wh the foundg of the Mattache Society Los Angel. The clud on at Cooper Do-Nuts Los Angel 1959; a fundraiser for the Council on Relign and the Homosexual San Francis 1965; a Dewey’s rtrant Philalphia, also 1965; San Francis’s Compton’s Cafeteria 1966; and the Black Cat Tavern Los Angel 1967. The unual reactn of the Stonewall’s patrons spurred the crowd outsi, which me to clu a diverse segment of the lol LGBT muny – homels LGBT teens, trans women of lor, lbians, drag queens, and gay men – as well as other rints of Greenwich Village and visors.

Even before the 1969 Stonewall uprisg, Christopher Park was a favore hangout for a diverse group of (often homels) gay street youth and those who might intify today as queer, transgenr, or non-bary. At the one-year anniversary, the first annual Christopher Street Liberatn Day March (later known as the Gay Pri March and then the LGBT Pri March) took place New York, wh siar events other ci the Uned Stat; the number of march expand ternatnally over the next few years. The nomatn, available the “Read More” sectn below, was wrten by Dolkart, wh Shockley, g, part, rearch om David Carter (who published his Stonewall: The Rts that Sparked the Gay Revolutn book 2004).

AT STONEWALL INN, A GAY RIGHTS LANDMARK, A VIGIL PRI AND ANGER

Loted Greenwich Village at 51 and 53 Christopher Street, this gay bar and dance club was enclosed wh thick stone walls — remnants om s history as horse stabl that provid both s namake and a protective barrier om the outsi world that was, on the whole, unsupportive of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people. Generally thought of as a “safe place” for the LGBT muny, placloth police officers vad The Stonewall Inn on Friday, June 27, 1969 (the same day as the nearby Manhattan funeral of gay in entertaer/actrs/sger Judy Garland) and jt after 3 am on June 28, thgs turned vlent after a few LGBT people were arrted on qutnable charg, handcuffed and very publicly forced to police rs on the streets of New York Cy.

The Stonewall Inn was clared a Natnal Historic LandmarkOn the first anniversary of the Stonewall rebelln June 1970, the very first gay pri march was held Manhattan and sce then, lns of LGBT pri march, paras, piics, parti, ftivals, and symposia have taken place and June has been clared LGBT Pri Month to honor the 1969 Stonewall rts. History & CultureExplaerA June 1969 police raid of the New York bar epted to a days-long rebelln that l a fire unr the fight for LGBTQ 1969, police raids of gay bars Manhattan followed a template.

By the 1960s, homosexualy was clilly classified as a mental disorr, and most municipali the Uned Stat had discrimatory laws that forba same-sex relatnships and nied basic rights to anyone spected of beg gay. Loted Greenwich Village, the heart of gay life New York at the time, s patrons were among the most margalized members of New York’s LGBTQ muny—cludg unraged and unhoed dividuals, people of lor, and drag performers.

The movement stoked by the police raid Greenwich Village soon spread to ci across the 1970, a year after the raid, activists led by Craig Rodwell memorated s anniversary wh what they lled Christopher Street Liberatn Day, now regnized as the first gay pri march. It tered to an assortment of patrons and was known to be popular among the poort and most margalized people the gay muny: drag queens, transgenr people, effemate young men, butch lbians, male prostut, and homels youth. When ps raid New York gay bar Stonewall Inn more than half a century ago on June 28, 1969 their actns helped trigger an LGBTQ movement that revolutnized the liv of future had already raid the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street that week, and this send time occurred the early hours of Saturday morng, when the venue was the LGBTQ movement nnot be directly traced to the events of that night, was certaly energized by what happened the hours and days after the Richards, Edw D.

"Police raids of gay bars the 1950s and 1960s ed to be route, volvg the threateng and beatg of ctomers and staff when police raid the Stonewall Inn the early hours of June 28, 1969 thgs did not go to plan, and what followed effectively kick-started the morn LGBTQ civil rights élie Gee, an expert LGBTQ history and an Associate Profsor at Wake Fort Universy School of Law, believ Stonewall has rightly "entered the LGBTQ history books. She told Newsweek: "Stonewall might have had grimy bathrooms and sold overpriced, watered-down drks, but was one of the few tablishments that weled gay men, lbians, transgenr dividuals and other genr nonnformists. "Newsweek has reported how versns of the famo rabow flags now play an important role durg Gay Pri march, as "they reprent a variety of different muni, such as trans muni and bisexual people had for many years faced social sanctn and legal harassment for their sexual orientatn, which had been crimalized on the pretexts of relign and 1960s even wnsed homosexualy reclassified as a mental disorr and most municipali the U.

She believ that today, the Stonewall Rts have particular ronance for the LGBTQ LGBTQ history expert said: "They were a moment when gays, lbians and trans dividuals joed forc agast a mon foe, wh drag queens and self-proclaimed transvt leadg the charge.

"Aaron Lecklir, Profsor and Graduate Program Director of Amerin Studi at the Universy of Massachetts Boston believ the events surroundg the Stonewall rts were "as much a reactn to the nservatism of the mid-century gay rights movement as was a rponse to the lated policg of gay spac. He told Newsweek: "While middle-class whe gay men and lbians had formed anizatns the 1950s that centralized their inti, the majory of queer people—genr-nonnformg, people of lor, poor, and workg-class—had no place them. The Internatnal Homomonument on the Koekamp, a seven-meter tall steel sculpture, is signed to memorate all people who have been persecuted or opprsed bee of their sexual orientatn, both at the prent time and the past.