Why a 1937 KKK Raid on a Gay Club Miami Still Matters | Time

Contents:

• WHY A FOTTEN KKK RAID ON A GAY CLUB MIAMI STILL MATTERS 80 YEARS LATER
• KU KLUX KLAN REBRAND OPENS ITS DOORS TO BLACK PEOPLE, JEWS AND GAYS
• THE NEW FACE OF THE KKK: BLACK, JEWISH, AND GAY?
• THE KKK TELLS MEMBERS TO KILL GAY PEOPLE
• 18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA
• THE KKK IS NOT ACTUALLY LOOKG FOR BLACK, GAY, JEWISH MEMBERS
• AZEALIA BANKS COMPAR THE LGBT COMMUNY TO 'GAY WHE KKK'S'

WHY A FOTTEN KKK RAID ON A GAY CLUB MIAMI STILL MATTERS 80 YEARS LATER

While lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) history is still only rarely tght outsi of specialized urs lleg and universi (although that is begng to change), many Amerins might thk they know when and where this raid happened: June 1969, at New York Cy’s Stonewall Inn.

It's been likened to a Dave Chappelle sk or an April Fools' Day prank gone Ku Klux Klan, the olst hate group Ameri, notor for vlently targetg blacks, Jews, homosexuals, and immigrants, is gettg a makeover. Homophobia is often rooted and embedd anti-Blackns, forms of Whe supremacy, cludg buildg a particular visn of what the natn should look like or what they (Whe supremacists) image the natn should look like. Lil Nas X, a gay Black artist, was booted om the untry charts when his song “Old Town Road” went viral; he was only allowed back when he rerd a remix of the song wh untry artist Billy Ray Cys.

KU KLUX KLAN REBRAND OPENS ITS DOORS TO BLACK PEOPLE, JEWS AND GAYS

The Ku Klux Klan opens s door to Jews, homosexuals and black people bizarre recment driveWhe supremacist group Ku Klux Klan is re-brandg as 'the new Klan'Founr wants Jews, black people, gays and those of Hispanic orig to joRebrand 'Rocky Mounta Knights' claim to stand for 'a strong Ameri'New recs will have to wear the whe rob, masks and nil hats Published: 11:05 BST, 10 November 2014 | Updated: 21:20 BST, 10 November 2014.

It's a whe supremacist anisatn notor for homophobic and racist vlence, cludg the lynchgs of black the Ku Klux Klan is now lookg to diversify and crease s membership to clu Jews, black people, homosexuals and those of Hispanic orig wh a re-brandg as 'the new Klan' those wantg to jo the extreme right-wg group will still have to wear the whe rob, masks and nil hats and take part ruals, acrdg to founr John Abarr. The Ku Klux Klan is lookg to diversify and crease s membership to clu Jews, black people, homosexuals and those of Hispanic orig wh a re-brandg as 'the new Klan' The rebrand anisatn, lled the Rocky Mounta Knights, claims to now stand for 'a strong Ameri' rather than irratnal hatred.

THE NEW FACE OF THE KKK: BLACK, JEWISH, AND GAY?

Natnal Socialist Movement (statewi)Category: Neo-Nazi (anti-Semic, anti-immigrant, anti-black, anti-gay)The largt and most visible neo-Nazi group the Uned Stat, the Natnal Socialist Movement preach vlent rhetoric agast non-whe Amerins, and is notable for allowg members of other racist groups to jo them and reta their membership to the other group. Milant Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (statewi)Category: Ku Klux Klan (anti-black, anti-Semic, anti-immigrant, anti-gay)The olst and most famo Amerin hate group, the KKK has several groups, cludg the Milant Knights, that operate New York State.

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THE KKK TELLS MEMBERS TO KILL GAY PEOPLE

"Tony Alamo Christian Mistri (New York Cy)Category: General Hate (Anti-gay, hateful towards non-Christians)This group has been fed as a Christian cult that only accepts the Kg Jam Versn of the Bible, and forc s members to turn over all their Yorkers for Immigratn Control and Enforcement (New York Cy)Category: Anti-ImmigrantThis group actively oppos immigrants wh prejudiced rhetoric at protts and for Fay and Human Rights (New York Cy)Category: Anti-LBGTThis thk tank scrib s missn as "to fend life and fay at ternatnal stutns and to publicize the bate. " Crics, cludg the SPLC, say is a central player a broar movement to spread of Islam (Brooklyn)Category: Black Separatist (anti-whe, anti-Semic, anti-gay)Another branch of the Natn of Islam, loted Yass Remembered (Geneva)Category: Holot Denial (anti-Semic)Holot nial groups, like Deir Yass Remembered, attempt to mimize or pletely ny the impact and existence of the Holot. Deir Yass Remembered is noted for regular protts of Jewish plac of Klos Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (Hempstead)Category: Ku Klux Klan (anti-black, anti-Semic, anti-immigrant, anti-gay)One of several KKK groups operatg New York State, this one on Long for Ameri (statewi)Category: Anti-MlimApart om 's lol prence New York Cy, ACT has active members that have participated ralli elsewhere New York Daily Stormer (statewi)Category: Neo-Nazi/Whe Supremacist (anti-Semic, anti-black, anti-Mlim, anti-immigrant anti-gay)The Daily Stormer is a webse popular among neo-Nazis, whe supremacists and other members of the alt-right.

The webse reloted to the dark web Augt of 2017 after doma registrars rejected for sultg the victim of a r rammg terror attack at a rally Charlottville, Tyr Productns (Holbrook)Category: Hate Mic (anti-Semic, anti-black)Wolf Tyr productns produc heavy metal mic wh racist and fascist of Islam (Rochter)Category: Black Separatist (anti-whe, anti-Semic, anti-gay)Another Natn of Islam chapter, this one loted hear on a whe supremacist flyer distributed New York (Rochter)Category: Whe Natnalist (anti-black, anti-Mlim, anti-Immigrant)This group is known to distribute whe natnalist flyers Rochter-area neighborhoods, and operat a webse that lks to whe natnalist moreLoyal Whe Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (Hampton Bays)Category: Ku Klux Klan (anti-black, anti-Semic, anti-immigrant, anti-gay)Another Long Island-based KKK Holy Fay Monastery (Fillmore)Category: Radil Tradnal Catholicism (anti-Semic)Radil Tradnal Catholic iology has been rejected by the Vatin and most mastream tholics. Screenshot om Google StreetViewThe Fatima Csar/Internatnal Fatima Rosary Csa (Constable)Category: Radil Tradnal Catholicism (anti-Semic, anti-gay)This branch of Radil Tradnal Catholicism believ propheci, predictns and warngs that spell doom, vlence and sufferg for Natnalist Party of Ameri (Lockport)Category: Whe Natnalist (anti-black, anti-immigrant, anti-Mlim)One of several whe natnalist groups operatg New York State. This group has been known to distribute a pamphlet lled "Whe Voice, " which has praised Donald Tmp along wh referencg whe supremacist of Islam (Buffalo)Category: Black Separatist (anti-whe, anti-Semic, anti-gay)Another Natn of Islam chapter, this one loted Buffalo.

(Niagara Falls)Category: Radil Tradnal Catholicism (anti-Semic)Another radil Catholic group New York State, this one known for publishg a ntroversial tradnalist of the Natnal Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (Panama)Category: Ku Klux Klan (anti-black, anti-Semic, anti-immigrant, anti-gay)One of several KKK groups operatg New York State, this one Wtern hate groupsNew York has the greatt number of active hate groups after California, Florida and Texas. Even as some well-known anti-gay groups like Foc on the Fay morate their views, a hard re of smaller groups, most of them religly motivated, have ntued to pump out monizg propaganda aimed at homosexuals and other sexual mori. The groups’ fluence reach far beyond what their size would suggt, bee the “facts” they dissemate about homosexualy are often amplified by certa policians, other groups and even news anizatns.

18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

The book mak a seri of claims that virtually no ser historian agre wh: that Hler was gay, that “the Nazi Party was entirely ntrolled by aristic homosexuals, ” and that gays were pecially selected for the SS bee of their nate btaly. Takg a page om the anti-gay fabulist Stt Lively (see Abidg Tth Mistri, above), Fischer claimed a blog post last May 27 that “[h]omosexualy gave Adolph Hler, and homosexuals the ary gave the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war mache and 6 ln ad Jews.

In a 2010 “actn alert, ” the AFA warned that if homosexuals are allowed to openly serve the ary, “your son or dghter may be forced to share ary showers and barracks wh active and open homosexuals.

Amerins for Tth About Homosexualy (AFTAH) was formed as a part-time venture 1996 by long-time gay-basher Peter LaBarbera, who reanized 2006 as a much more ser and fluential, if often vic, operatn. A one-time reporter for the nservative Washgton Tim, LaBarbera has been an energetic mpaigner agast “the radil homosexual agenda” sce at least 1993, when he lnched The Lambda Report, which claimed to do first-hand reportg to expose s gay enemi. AFTAH is notable for s postg of the utterly discreded work of Pl Cameron (of the Fay Rearch Instute; see below), who has claimed that gays and lbians live vastly shorter liv than heterosexuals.

THE KKK IS NOT ACTUALLY LOOKG FOR BLACK, GAY, JEWISH MEMBERS

The same year, he posted an open letter to the Lhuanian people om long-time gay-basher Stt Lively (see Abidg Tth Mistri, above), who has ma a seri of false claims about gays nng the German Nazi Party. DeMar has modified that dictum slightly the past, sayg that homosexuals wouldn’t all be executed unr a “renstcted” ernment, but that he did believe that the ocsnal executn of “sodom” would serve society well bee “the law that requir the ath penalty for homosexual acts effectively driv the perversn of homosexualy unrground, back to the closet. It has lled the ia of allowg gays to serve openly the ary “evil”; opposed hate crim legislatn (which many relig-right groups falsely assert would make easy to send pastors to prison for nmng homosexualy); and raged agast a judge’s overturng of California’s Proposn 8, which had validated same-sex marriag.

AZEALIA BANKS COMPAR THE LGBT COMMUNY TO 'GAY WHE KKK'S'

Wh regard to that last, said: “Homosexuals have turned away om humbly worshippg the te and livg God and his transcennt moral orr orr to make an idol out of their sexual perversn and chaos. Although is somewhat benign by parison, the CADC has an advisory board that clus some of the untry’s most hard-le anti-gay activists: Lou Sheldon, head of the Tradnal Valu Coaln (see below); Donald Wildmon, the founr of the Amerin Fay Associatn (above); and O’Neal Dozier, a pastor who wrote his 2008 book that “[h]omosexualy not only spreads disease and ntraliz God’s mand, ” but also “stroys fai.