Timele: Bill Clton’s evolutn on gay rights

Contents:

• LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS CLTON, CT
• WELE TO PFLAG CLTON TOWNSHIPGET TOUCHHOME: WELEWHO WE AREFOUND 1972 WH THE SIMPLE ACT OF A MOTHER PUBLICLY SUPPORTG HER GAY SON, PFLAG IS THE NATN’S LARGT FAY AND ALLY ANIZATN. MA UP OF PARENTS, FAI, IENDS, AND STRAIGHT ALLI UNED WH PEOPLE WHO ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT), PFLAG IS MTED TO ADVANCG EQUALY AND SOCIETAL ACCEPTANCE OF LGBT PEOPLE THROUGH S THREEFOLD MISSN OF SUPPORT, TN AND ADVOCY. PFLAG NOW HAS OVER 350 CHAPTERS AND 200,000 MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS CROSSG MULTIPLE GENERATNS OF AMERIN FAI MAJOR URBAN CENTERS, SMALL CI AND RAL AREAS ALL 50 STAT.THIS VAST GRASSROOTS WORK IS CULTIVATED, ROURCED, AND SERVICED BY PFLAG NATNAL, LOTED WASHGTON, D.C., THE NATNAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND 13 REGNAL DIRECTORS.HOME: WHO WE AREACTIVIBRGG CHANGEMEETGS + SUPPORTSEE WHEN WE ARE MEETG NEXT.EVENTSCOMMUNY OUTREACHSUPPORTG THE MUNY WE ARE A PART OF THROUGH PARTICIPATN.GET TOUCHROURCELKS AND DOWNLOADS TO GIVE YOU ADDNAL . ON WHAT YOU MAY BE EXPERIENCG.ROURCE PAGEHOME: WHAT WE DOCONTACT PFLAG CLTON TOWNSHIP35127 GARFIELD RD, CLTON TWP, MI SUBMTHANKS FOR SUBMTG!HOME: CONTACTSUBSCRIBE FORM
• GAY SGL IN CLTON, CONNECTICUT, UNED STAT
• AN EARLY ADVOTE FOR CONNECTICUT’S GAY COMMUNY
• TIMELE: BILL CLTON'S EVOLUTN ON GAY RIGHTS
• TIMELE: BILL CLTON’S EVOLUTN ON GAY RIGHTS

LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS CLTON, CT

Wele To PFLAG Clton TownshipHome: WeleWho We AreFound 1972 wh the simple act of a mother publicly supportg her gay son, PFLAG is the natn’s largt fay and ally anizatn. Ma up of parents, fai, iends, and straight alli uned wh people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT), PFLAG is mted to advancg equaly and societal acceptance of LGBT people through s threefold missn of support, tn and advocy. For s durg the mid-20th century, workg out of his offic at Christ Church Cathedral Hartford and the field, Canon Clton Jon worked diligently to help members of Hartford’s gay and transsexual muny any way he uld, om dividual unselg to assistance alg wh employment and hog discrimatn.

As reported a profile of Jon published The Hartford Courant 1986, and further tailed his 2002 terview, while Jon was workg wh the Rehabilatn Commtee, he heard that a homosexual janor at an East Hartford school had been acced of moltg a boy and was nsequently fired. Jon, after makg sure the stunt’s well-beg was beg attend to, was ncerned that the man had been acced bee he was gay rather than bee he was guilty. The Rehabilatn Commtee began to study and explore issu related to homosexualy, but Jon and other members realized that there were so many matters to be addrsed that a new mtee was need.

WELE TO PFLAG CLTON TOWNSHIPGET TOUCHHOME: WELEWHO WE AREFOUND 1972 WH THE SIMPLE ACT OF A MOTHER PUBLICLY SUPPORTG HER GAY SON, PFLAG IS THE NATN’S LARGT FAY AND ALLY ANIZATN. MA UP OF PARENTS, FAI, IENDS, AND STRAIGHT ALLI UNED WH PEOPLE WHO ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT), PFLAG IS MTED TO ADVANCG EQUALY AND SOCIETAL ACCEPTANCE OF LGBT PEOPLE THROUGH S THREEFOLD MISSN OF SUPPORT, TN AND ADVOCY. PFLAG NOW HAS OVER 350 CHAPTERS AND 200,000 MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS CROSSG MULTIPLE GENERATNS OF AMERIN FAI MAJOR URBAN CENTERS, SMALL CI AND RAL AREAS ALL 50 STAT.THIS VAST GRASSROOTS WORK IS CULTIVATED, ROURCED, AND SERVICED BY PFLAG NATNAL, LOTED WASHGTON, D.C., THE NATNAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND 13 REGNAL DIRECTORS.HOME: WHO WE AREACTIVIBRGG CHANGEMEETGS + SUPPORTSEE WHEN WE ARE MEETG NEXT.EVENTSCOMMUNY OUTREACHSUPPORTG THE MUNY WE ARE A PART OF THROUGH PARTICIPATN.GET TOUCHROURCELKS AND DOWNLOADS TO GIVE YOU ADDNAL . ON WHAT YOU MAY BE EXPERIENCG.ROURCE PAGEHOME: WHAT WE DOCONTACT PFLAG CLTON TOWNSHIP35127 GARFIELD RD, CLTON TWP, MI SUBMTHANKS FOR SUBMTG!HOME: CONTACTSUBSCRIBE FORM

When the sub-mtee first met, at the Hartford YMCA, they ed only the word “homosexualy” to direct members to the right meetg room. In later years, Jon and other members of Project H would remember that story as a prime example of how clanste people had to be about the topic of homosexualy. Henry Foundatn, a New York cy social service group for homosexuals and transsexuals, would speak, the mtee chair, Robert Casstevens, utned, “We do not want publicy sce at this pot we are not prepared to al wh qutns and quiri” [emphasis the origal].

Jon was particularly imprsed wh the Henry Foundatn, which was found the aftermath of World War II as gay men returng om active duty gravated to New York and other ci. Keh Brown, a pneer of the gay rights movement Hartford, later med, “I don’t remember a perd of siar Henry Foundatn cells dog unselg work other parts of the untry.

GAY SGL IN CLTON, CONNECTICUT, UNED STAT

In addn to tryg to help the foundatn crease s spe beyond New York, Jon, on a more personal level, sought to crease his skills as a church unselor and refe his own relig view on homosexualy by pursug a master’s gree sacred theology at New York Theologil Semary. His this, “Counselg and the Male Homosexual, ” reflects the synthis of his two ma ncerns improvg his work. Although stanc which mastream relig stutns and lears rpond publicly to homosexualy were not pecially abundant the 1960s, neher were they pletely absent.

A 1963 article Christian Century addrsed the issue, characterizg homosexuals as eher “sful” or “sick [and]unreasonable.

” This attu was pletely oppose om Jon’s, who believed that homosexualy was not a disease. His belief about the origs of homosexualy might be bt characterized by the more morn phrase “born that way. Some other clergy members shared his belief, or at least his view that homosexuals should not be rejected by the church solely on the basis of their sexual orientatn.

AN EARLY ADVOTE FOR CONNECTICUT’S GAY COMMUNY

In San Francis, a group of Prottants had, 1965, formed a mtee that worked closely wh gay rights groups that cy. Troy Perry, workg Los Angel, went even further 1968, tablishg the Metropolan Communy Church to create a welg nomatn specifilly for gay Christians.

Jon, while optimistic about how church might eventually rpond to homosexual ngregants, was aware of the low opn many Christians had toward homosexuals (among those who ncerned themselv wh the issue at all). Jon llected papers and pamphlets issued by those church lears who addrsed homosexualy directly, the vast majory of which were nmnatory.

Jon’s personal papers, held at the GLBTQ Archiv at Central Connecticut State Library’s Elihu Burrt Library, clu both his personal not and rrponnce wh people whom he sought to help and the few pamphlets and articl Jon was able to llect relatg to relig rpons to homosexualy. Many of the latter documents nta lorful margalia which Jon flatly rejected some of the nclns his fellow clergymen had reached explorg the issue of homosexualy.

TIMELE: BILL CLTON'S EVOLUTN ON GAY RIGHTS

Although Jon ncentrated mostly on helpg dividual gay men and transsexuals, he kept himself rmed about natnal gay rights anizatns, most of which, the 1960s, were much more circumspect than they would be followg s. Jon also helped early gay rights groups on a lol level.

Keh Brown -found the Kalos Society, which was anized 1968 and which Brown scribed, also a 2002 oral history terview, as the first gay rights group Connecticut.

TIMELE: BILL CLTON’S EVOLUTN ON GAY RIGHTS

By early 1967, Jon had negotiated a vis to the prison and a meetg wh the warn, who explaed that the segregatn was to protect transvt and homosexuals om the general mate populatn.

As gay men, lbians, and transsexuals began to have more opportuni to start their own anizatns the 1970s and beyond, Project H (renamed “Commtee on Sexual Mori” 1980) found that the gay muny need s servic ls and ls. Although Jon clearly had a posive effect on the gay and transsexual muni Hartford and was acknowledged a 1983 Hartford Courant article about the difficulty of beg openly gay Hartford as “a patriarch of Hartford’s gay culture, ” his work was notably ficient one area.

” Part of the reason for this particular ficiency was that lbians throughout the Uned Stat had, the mid-1960s, largely divorced themselv om the male gay rights movement, as exemplified by lbian rights activist Del Mart a semal say distributed 1969, “If All That’s There Is…” which she explicly rejected the “stultifyg rol” gay men assumed lbians would take the gay liberatn movement: substute mothers, secretari, and subordat. Mart was not alone her tratn wh gay male activists, a phenomenon wily wrten about by queer historians and most strikgly evint John Sgltti’s 1999 documentary After Stonewall (which buted at the 1999 Connecticut Gay and Lbian Film Ftival). A mon plat was that gay men treated lbians wh the same dismissivens that women experienced the broar Amerin culture, expectg them to take mut and fetch ffee while offerg few opportuni to engage on a more signifint level.