Gay Liberatn: How a Once Radil Movement Got Married and Settled Down on JSTOR

Contents:

• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT
• QUTN: 10. THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT: A. WAS BANNED SEVERAL STAT. B. ATTRACTED MANY STRAIGHT WOMEN. C. IALLY EXCLUD WOMEN. D. WAS SPIRED BY THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. E. END WH THE SUCCSFUL STONEWALL RT. 11. THE TOMOBILE: A. SPURRED GROWTH OTHER DTRI SUCH AS TOURISM AND STEEL PRODUCTN. B. LIMED THE EXPANSN OF MOST OTHER
• GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT
• GAY RIGHTS
• PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

E., for lbians, gays [homosexual mal], bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons); seeks to elimate sodomy laws; and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life.

) Gay rights prr to the 20th century Relig admonns agast sexual relatns between dividuals of the same sex (particularly men) long stigmatized such behavur, but most legal s Europe were silent on the subject of homosexualy and bisexualy. Dpe Paragraph 175 and the failure of the WhK to w s repeal, homosexual and bisexual men and women experienced a certa amount of eedom Germany, particularly durg the Weimar perd, between the end of World War I and the Nazi seizure of power.

In the Uned Stat this greater visibily brought some backlash, particularly om the ernment and the police: the ernment often fired gay civil servants, the ary attempted to purge s ranks of gay soldiers (a policy enacted durg World War II), and police vice squads equently raid gay bars and arrted their patrons. In the Uned Stat the first major male anizatn, found 1950–51 by Harry Hay Los Angel, was the Mattache Society (s name reputedly rived om a medieval French society of masked players, the Société Mattache, to reprent the public “maskg” of homosexualy), while the Dghters of Bilis (named after the Sapphic love poems of Pierre Louÿs, Chansons Bilis), found 1955 by Phyllis Lyon and Del Mart San Francis, was a leadg group for women. In Bra 1957 a missn chaired by Sir John Wolfenn issued a groundbreakg report (see Wolfenn Report) remendg that private homosexual liaisons between nsentg adults be removed om the doma of crimal law; a later the remendatn was implemented by Parliament the Sexual Offenc Act.

THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT

Now headquartered Geneva and renamed the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA World), plays a signifint role ordatg ternatnal efforts to promote human rights and fight discrimatn agast LGBTQ and tersex persons.

This support, along wh mpaigns by gay activists urgg gay men and women to “e out of the closet” (ed, the late 1980s, Natnal Comg Out Day was tablished, and is now celebrated on October 11 most untri), enuraged gay men and women to enter the polil arena as ndidat. Other issu of primary importance for the gay rights movement sce the 1970s clud batg the HIV/AIDS epimic and promotg disease preventn and fundg for rearch; lobbyg ernment for nondiscrimatory polici employment, hog, and other aspects of civil society; endg the ban on ary service for gay and lbian dividuals; expandg hate crim legislatn to clu protectns for gays, cludg transgenr dividuals; and securg marriage rights for same-sex upl (see same-sex marriage). Ary’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy (1993–2011), which had permted gay and lbian dividuals to serve the ary if they did not disclose their sexual orientatn or engage homosexual activy; the repeal effectively end the ban on homosexuals the ary.

QUTN: 10. THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT: A. WAS BANNED SEVERAL STAT. B. ATTRACTED MANY STRAIGHT WOMEN. C. IALLY EXCLUD WOMEN. D. WAS SPIRED BY THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. E. END WH THE SUCCSFUL STONEWALL RT. 11. THE TOMOBILE: A. SPURRED GROWTH OTHER DTRI SUCH AS TOURISM AND STEEL PRODUCTN. B. LIMED THE EXPANSN OF MOST OTHER

Key potsIn the late 1960s and 1970s, Native Amerins, gay men, lbians, and women anized to change discrimatory laws and pursue ernment support for their terts, a strategy known as inty groups, whose aims and tactics posed a challenge to the existg state of affairs, often met wh hostily om dividuals, lol officials, and the US ernment.

Shortly thereafter, the Gay Liberatn Front and Gay Activists’ Alliance were formed; the anizatns began to prott discrimatn, homophobia, and vlence agast gay people, and promoted gay liberatn and gay advocy anizatns lled for gay men and lbians to e out—reveal their sexual orientatn—gay and lbian muni moved om the urban unrground to the polil sphere.

GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT

Although members of the gay muny were divid their opns about the rt, hundreds of people returned to the scene for the next several nights, some to ntue vlent opposn to the police and others to exprs their sexualy public for the first time. After Stonewall, however, a more radil polil nscns veloped that rulted om the formatn of many new groups, cludg the Gay Liberatn Front and Radilbians, whose members rejected the strategi and lled for a more ant rponse to homophobia.

We will exame the Women's Movement, which fought for genr equaly and women's rights, the Gay Liberatn Movement, which advoted for LGBTQ+ rights, the Amerin Indian Movement, which sought self-termatn and sovereignty for Indigeno peopl, and affirmative actn polici, which aimed to addrs past discrimatn and promote diversy tn and the workforce. The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn's diagnostic manual fed homosexualy as an the McCarthy era, the charge that homosexuals were "moral perverts" and secury risks led the ernment to adopt l explicly excludg them om feral jobs or ary service. " The danger was not solely bee they were gay though; homosexuals were nsired to be more sceptible to blackmail and th were labeled as secury Courty of CBS NewsMcCarthy hired Roy Cohn—who would later die of AIDS and was acced of beg a closeted homosexual as chief unsel of his Congrsnal submtee.

GAY RIGHTS

The executive orr was also the e for the firg of approximately 5, 000 gay people om feral employment; this clud private ntractors and ary June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay nightclub (which was illegal). Over the next week, two addnal rts broke out the neighborhood began to w a seri of victori the 1970s:The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn stopped classifyg homosexualy as a mental the end of the , half the stat had repealed their sodomy statut. A Michigan transgenr woman, Aimee Stephens, said she was fired om the funeral home where she worked for six years as Anthony Stephens bee of her transn om male to than 90% of Amerins believe gays and lbians should have equal rights terms of job opportuni, acrdg to a 2019 Gallup poll.

As a rult, the long-awaed cisn did not rolve whether other opponents of same-sex marriage, cludg bakers, florists, photographers, and viographers, n refe mercial weddg servic to gay Courty of Harvard Civil RightsIn 2019, the se Arlene’s Flowers v.

PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI

The seri begs wh the headle “There are probably 2, 700 homosexuals at Cal”, and go to tail about how police officers have been crackg down on the "homosexual activy" on mp, cludg removg every other door the men’s rtroom, so that would stop people om drillg glory hol the stalls. Durg this s- the stunts veloped a list of mands for the Universy which clud: the Universy support the repeal of sodomy laws, the Universy provi facili for the CGE, the Universy give permissn to hold the gay dance as planned, and the Universy enforce the rignatn of John Cox. In addn to the great event that was the dance, the CGE hosted many nscns raisg events the form of symposiums hop of exposg gays to their own opprsn and to te and raise awarens the straight muny about gays, their liftyle, and the acpanyg challeng.