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Contents:

• 10 SENTIAL MOVI ABOUT GAY RIGHTS
• WHEN MERS AND GAY ACTIVISTS UNED: THE REAL STORY OF THE FILM PRI
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

10 SENTIAL MOVI ABOUT GAY RIGHTS

“As long as gay people don’t have their rights all across Ameri, there’s no reason for celebratn, ” she once said.

Johnson was a key figure of the 1960s gay rights movement the US and, as legend has , threw the brick that igned the famo Stonewall rts, which were the talyst for the movement and have spired many Pri march ever 1992, Johnson’s body was found the Hudson River.

WHEN MERS AND GAY ACTIVISTS UNED: THE REAL STORY OF THE FILM PRI

She was once arrted for attemptg to climb through a wdow ( a drs and heels) to a room where the New York Cy Council was batg a gay rights bill, NBC reported. “Sylvia’s role gay history was that she was one of the first people to highlight that our movement need to be more clive of people who did not f the mastream, ” Carrie Davis, Chief Programs and Policy Officer at New York Cy’s LGBT Communy Center, told NBC News. 9, AP PhotoHarvey Milk, the subject of the Osr-wng film Milk, was the first openly gay polician to be elected California.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

Alice NkomEmbed om Getty ImagAlice Nkom is a human rights lawyer and LGBTQ activist om Cameroon, where homosexualy is still crimalized. In a untry where police officer entrap members of the LGBTQ muny through text msag and beat those they perceive to be gay, Nkom bravely fights for rights on behalf of the LGBTQ Nkom intifi as heterosexual, she has dited her work to fightg for Cameroon’s LGBTQ muny and found the Associatn for the Defence of Homosexualy 2003.

Arsham ParsiArsham Parsi is a gay man who first began secretly workg to support members of the LGBTQ muny his native Iran. But 2005, the queer activist was forced to flee his untry, where homosexual activy remas, Parsi liv exile Canada, where he has found the Iranian Railroad for Queer Refuge, which supports and provis guidance to LGBTQ asylum seekers om the Middle East. 3, LM Otero/APMichael Sam beme the first openly gay football player to be drafted by an NFL team 2014.

About a year after he was first drafted, Sam retired om the NFL cg mental health stggle highlighted the discrimatn and homophobia still rampant the sports world, but Sam has gone on to share his story and ntu to champn change.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

Jonathan Van Ns, Antoni Porowski, Tan France, Bobby Berk, and Karamo Brown om Queer Courty of NetflixThe all-star st of Netflix’s new Queer Eye seri — a reboot of Bravo’s early 2000s seri Queer Eye for the Straight Guy — may be all fun when to makeovers, but they’re ser about makg a difference the “Fab Five” — Tan France, Jonathan Van Ns, Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, and Antoni Porowski — speak openly on Queer Eye about their personal stggl and experienc wh homophobia and discrimatn. The 1969 events that have sce bee the so-lled orig myth of the morn gay rights movement began not as a pri march but as an anti-police rt that lasted days. The mafia-n gay bar the Wt Village New York Cy played backdrop to a heated and vlent nontatn between drag queens, genr non-nformg dividuals (many of them black and brown) and the NYPD when the place was raid by police officers.

Bee the fight for equaly needs to be an tersectnal one, equally attuned to homophobia as to racism, to transphobia as to sexism, takg on gentrifitn and immigratn, mental health and labor laws — issu the films tackle ways both didactic and entertag. Johnson, legendary fixture New York Cy’s gay ghetto, who along wh fellow trans in Sylvia Rivera, found Street Transvt Actn Revolutnari (S.