The exhortatn to Go Wt! has always sparked the Amerin imagatn. But for gays, lbians, and transgenred people, the Cy of Angels provid a special home and gave rise to one of the most fluential gay cultur the world. Drawg on rare archiv and photographs as well as more than three hundred terviews, Lillian Farman and Stuart Timmons chart L.A.'s unique gay history, om the first missnary enunters wh Native Amerin cross-genred two spirs to cross-drsg ontier women search of their fortun; om the bohemian eedom of early Hollywood to the explosn of gay life durg World War II to the unrground radilism set off by the 1950s blacklist; and om the 1960s gay liberatn movement to the creatn of gay marketg the 1990s.
Contents:
- HISTORY'S HIDN GAY UPL WHOSE 'OUTLAW MARRIAG' HELPED AMERI'S GREATT MDS REACH NEW HEIGHTS
- THE RADIL PLAN TO TURN ONE CALIFORNIA TOWN TO A GAY UTOPIA
- NEW YORK TIM FALLY ADMS FORMER MAYOR ED KOCH WAS GAY NE YEARS AFTER HIS ATH
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- CHECK OUT THE TRAILER FOR ‘STEAM!’, A MIL THRILLER ABOUT GAY OUTLAWS
HISTORY'S HIDN GAY UPL WHOSE 'OUTLAW MARRIAG' HELPED AMERI'S GREATT MDS REACH NEW HEIGHTS
Des before gay partnerships beme the hot topic of polil mpaigns numero high profile artists, cludg Walt Whman and Greta Garbo, rried on same-sex unns which helped enrich Amerin culture, acrdg to a new book. * gay outlaws *
Des before gay partnerships beme the hot topic of polil mpaigns numero high-profile artists, cludg Walt Whman and Greta Garbo, rried on same-sex unns which helped enrich Amerin culture, acrdg to a new book. ’ Workg together: Ismail Merchant, left, and Jam Ivory were profsnal as well as romantic partners Rcued: Tennsee Williams, left, was spired by his gay partner; Martha Carey Thomas, right wh her girliend Mamie Gwn, ma history by creatg the first graduate program the U. Workg together: Nobel Peace Prize lreate Jane Addams revolutnised social work wh the help of her lover Mary Rozet Smh Stronger together: Elsie Wolfe and Bsie Marbury supported each other their artistic pursus; mpaigners Audre Lor and Franc Clayton prented a uned ont agast social equalyAnother homosexual uple featured Outlaw Marriag are the first female Nobel Peace Prize wner Jane Addams and her girliend.
THE RADIL PLAN TO TURN ONE CALIFORNIA TOWN TO A GAY UTOPIA
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The Stonewall Inn, where rts 1969 kicked off the gay liberatn movement. In December 1969, jt months after the Stonewall Rts that sparked the gay liberatn movement, activist Don Jackson clared that the queer muny need a terrory of s own.
To a symposium Berkeley, California, Jackson asked his dience to “image a place where… there is no job discrimatn, police harassment or prejudice… a place where a gay ernment n build the base for a flourishg gay unter-culture”—a place wh a populatn so small that jt a few hundred queer activists uld move and outvote the current rints.
In effect, if jt 400 queer activists moved , wh three months Alpe County uld bee a gay utopia, plete wh a gay mayor, a gay sheriff, gay judg, and a gay board of supervisors. In the precedg months, gay polics had radilized—young LGBT Amerins began rejectg the unwaverg pragmatism of the 1950s and 1960s, stead adoptg slogans like “Gay Power. One rnatn of this new activism was the Gay Liberatn Front, a disparate anizatn wh chapters New York Cy, Washgton D.
NEW YORK TIM FALLY ADMS FORMER MAYOR ED KOCH WAS GAY NE YEARS AFTER HIS ATH
OutLaws is an anizatn of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer members of the Law School muny. Outlaws goals are to provi support for and te the Yale Law School muny and beyond about legal issu affectg LGBTQ persons as well as to provi a muny for LGBTQ-intified peo * gay outlaws *
) But even many members of the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF) qutned the legimacy of Jackson’s proposal, fearg would only create a slum.
He hoped the protts would attract media verage so he uld spread his ultimate msage: he wanted everyone to know that gay people were anizg, and they were a force to be reckoned wh. Acrdg to The Gay Revolutn by Lillian Farman, Kight told his tsted iends, “Alpe is eezg.
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It’s no place where anyone gay would want to live. Petersburg Tim (now the Tampa Bay Tim) published an article entled “Thgs Aren’t Gay Alpe—Yet, ” which quoted the Chairman of the Alpe County Board of Supervisors Herbert Bns sayg, “We’re all very ncerned. ” Meanwhile, the same piece, Morris Kight promised that the new Alpe County would be “a mec for gay tourists” and “straight cursy seekers.
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“Gays’ Plan of Takeover Confirmed, ” read an October 21 article the Long Beach Inpennt, which a GLF anizer, Don Kilhefner, claimed that GLF has “479 [activists] who have signed up already” to move to Alpe County and that “migratn… will beg about Jan. Morris Kight told another paper, the Fremont Arg, that the Alpe County takeover “would mean a gay ernment, a gay civil service” and “the tablishment of the world’s first mm of gay arts, scienc and history, paid for wh public funds. Now that existence stands threatened, and by as unlikely a force as uld be imaged—the ant homosexuals of the Gay Liberatn Front.