Town of Gay, GA

Contents:

• GAY CY HALL GAY, GEIA
• ADAMS IS CHALLENGED OVER HIS HIRG OF 3 GAY MARRIAGE FO
• GAY ACTIVISTS ALLIANCE ACTNS AT CY HALL
• GAV NEWSOM: ‘UNBELIEVABLE’ GAY MARRIAGE CISN, 11 YEARS AFTER HIS MOVE
• GAY AMSTERDAM

GAY CY HALL GAY, GEIA

The Office of LGBT Affairs works to foster equable workg and livg ndns for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) people and to advote for LGBTQ issu all areas of Cy ernment. The polil mobilizatn of gays and lbians Chigo relied part on a agile alliance wh the cy’s black muny. That’s jt one of many fascatg revelatns ptured the book, “Queer Clout: Chigo and the Rise of Gay Polics” by Timothy Stewart-Wter, a Universy of Chigo alumn who currently teach history at Rutgers Universy Newark, New Jersey.

“Queer Clout” follows the polil rise of Chigo’s LGBT muny, om fightg agast police raids of the cy’s gay bars to beg urted by the cy’s first Ain-Amerin mayor, Harold Washgton, and then s later by Barack Obama as he climbed om beg a ltle-known state lawmaker to ultimately beg the natn’s first black print. "Chigo is actually more reprentative than New York and San Francis of the trajectory of gay polics, " said Stewart-Wter. And so, gay bar raids went on longer here, gay people had to have more alli orr to w clout Cy Hall than other plac.

ADAMS IS CHALLENGED OVER HIS HIRG OF 3 GAY MARRIAGE FO

In 2013, the chief jtice of the Uned Stat suggted that the gay-rights ‘‘lobby’’ was so ‘‘polilly powerful’’ that gay upl nied equal accs to marriage should not be nsired a disadvantaged class servg protectn om the urts.

And yet, only fifty years ago, gays and lbians were social and polil pariahs, facg harassment wherever they gathered. This book trac that trajectory—om the closet to the rridors of power—and chronicl the rise of gay polics the postwar Uned Stat. The path of gays and lbians to polil power led through cy hall and veloped primarily rponse to the nstant threat of arrt unr which they lived.

GAY ACTIVISTS ALLIANCE ACTNS AT CY HALL

By the late 1980s, ci where policians had only recently sought polil advantage om raidg gay bars and rtg their patrons off to jail, gays and lbians had acquired sufficient power and fluence for elected officials to pursue them aggrsively as a potential votg bloc—not least by mpaigng those same bars. Gays now had clout. Gay migratn to ci was a major feature of postwar urban life, one that nsequentially shaped urban liberalism.

After World War II, unprecented numbers of e´migre´s om smaller ci, towns, ral areas, and suburbs left their fai of orig and joed urban gay society, where they learned they uld fd both anonymy and muny.

GAV NEWSOM: ‘UNBELIEVABLE’ GAY MARRIAGE CISN, 11 YEARS AFTER HIS MOVE

As Carl Wtman wrote of San Francis, the most fluential manifto of the gay-liberatn movement, ‘‘We me not bee is so great here, but bee was so bad there. ’’ In subsequent s, the gay-rights movement flourished and drew predomantly whe and middle-class cy dwellers. As urban gay muni swelled wh newly out and newly arrived gay people, their sire for regnn and their need for ernment protectns began to realign the polil views of a small but growg mory.

In growg numbers, gays and lbians chafed agast their outst stat; they mand that lol ernment, and particularly the police, treat them as rights-bearg cizens. Gay-liberatn rally Grant Park, April 1970, wh New York activist Martha Shelley addrsg the crowd through a megaphone.

Close-up of prottors at gay-liberatn rally Grant Park, April 1970.

GAY AMSTERDAM

Chigo Gay Alliance flyer for Pri event, 1972. Kelley, sponsor of proposed gay-rights ordance, on the ver of the Chigo Gay Csar, January 1973.