<strong>The long read</strong>: A police raid on a gay bar New York led to the birth of the Pri movement half a century ago – but the fight for LGBTQ+ rights go back much further than that
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- US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
- PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI
US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
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Photos shared on social at the time allegedly showed dozens of the hate group's members beg arrted near the pri eventFive members of a whe supremacist hate group nvicted of plottg to rt at a gay pri event will spend three days jail, a urt has men and dozens other members of the Patrt Front group were arrted last June after a rint spotted them wh masks and shields gettg to a were lled and found rt gear and a smoke grena the lorry was stopped near where the North Idaho Pri Alliance was holdg an event the cy of Cor d'Alene. Image source, North Country Off Grid/Youtube/via RtersImage ptn, Photos shared on social at the time allegedly showed dozens of the hate group's members beg arrted near the pri eventFive members of a whe supremacist hate group nvicted of plottg to rt at a gay pri event will spend three days jail, a urt has men and dozens other members of the Patrt Front group were arrted last June after a rint spotted them wh masks and shields gettg to a were lled and found rt gear and a smoke grena the lorry was stopped near where the North Idaho Pri Alliance was holdg an event the cy of Cor d'Alene. The anger that has epted after the murrs of Gee Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmd Arbery (and thoands of other Black people) is eply and historilly nnected to gay liberatn.
The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual nsired beg gay a mental disorr; fact, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn didn’t remove homosexualy as a disorr until 1973.
PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI
The 1969 Stonewall Rts marked a historic turng pot for gay rights, but several smaller uprisgs preced Stonewall as LGBTQ muni phed back agast harassment and equaly. * riot dash gay *
While Stonewall is remembered as the rt that sparked the gay liberatn movement as we know , others me before , most prott of unwarranted police surveillance and btaly agast disenanchised queer people of lor.
But what we do know is that on the night of June 27, 1969, the Stonewall Inn wnsed a vlent police raid on drag queens, transgenr people, and gay people, a majory of whom were Black or brown. ” In several books, cludg Lillian Farman’s The Gay Revolutn: The Story of the Stggle, Johnson is remembered for climbg a lamppost and shatterg an officer’s squad r wh a heavy object, which prompted other prottors to strike the police wh penni, beer ns, and glass bottl. Followg Stonewall, gay activists groups such as the Gay Activists’ Alliance, Gay Liberatn Front, and the Street Transvte Actn Revolutnari (STAR), were formed, and adopted the “lexin” of the BPP.
“For the gay men, drag queens, and trans people that equented the Stonewall Inn, the regnn of police btaly as a tool of genr opprsn was a pot of adjacency ma possible by the prolific acunts of police btaly circulated and amplified by the civil rights movement general, and the Black Panthers, particular, ” argued Lisa M.
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Newton, -founr of the BPP, spoke about his support of the gay liberatn movement 1970, tellg reporters that the Panthers “would like to have uny wh homosexual groups who are also polilly nsc.
“Whatever your personal opns and your securi about homosexualy and the var liberatn movements among homosexuals and women (and I speak of the homosexuals and women as opprsed groups), we should we should try to une wh them a revolutnary fashn, ” he said. ) In 1970, Afeni Shakur, a Black Panther activist and Tupac Shakur’s mother, helped anized a meetg wh the Gay Liberatn Front at Jane Fonda’s hoe to discs workg together.
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After the recent "Garena gayte" about the Iron Solari tournament forbiddg team to clu more than 1 gay, lbian or transgenr this all-female event, Rt Gam didn't take much time to react. 1965: Philalphia – Dewey’s Rtrant S-InDewey's rtrant Philalphia, Pennsylvania as appeared May April 25, 1965, the 17th Street lotn of Dewey’s rtrant Philalphia nied service to approximately 150 people who appeared to be gay or genr non-nformg.
Three teenagers refed to leave and were later arrted, along wh Clark Polak, lear of the homophile anizatn Jan Society, after he offered to help the group obta a lawyer. McDarrah/Getty ImagAfter pourg their drks, a bartenr Juli's Bar ref to serve John Timms, Dick Lesch, Craig Rodwell, and Randy Wicker, members of the Mattache Society who were prottg New York liquor laws that prevented servg gay ctomers, 1966.