Party and prott: the radil history of gay liberatn, Stonewall and Pri | LGBTQ+ rights | The Guardian

Contents:

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

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

Tens of thoands of people have marched Washgton, Los Angel and other US ci for LGBT rights, one of the biggt protts sce Print Donald Tmp took of the those attendg said they felt their muny was unr threat om the new anisers said dozens of ci across the US would also hold march nearly a year sce the shootg a gay Florida nightclub, Pulse, which killed 49 the pal, began the downtown area, then passed ont of the Whe Hoe and ntued on to the Natnal om as far as California, Colorado and Kentucky held aloft plards bearg slogans such as "Make Ameri Kd Aga", "Remember Pulse" and "We Are Human". A small number of people said was not jt about Print Tmp, but is clear the new occupant of the Whe Hoe has mobilised the LGBT muny a way not seen source, AFPImage ptn, Some said same-sex marriage was not the end of their fight for legislative changeImage ptn, Karl Ruckschell om New York said he feared Mr Tmp "rollg back history"Image source, AFPImage ptn, The march was one of the biggt gay rights protts recent yearsMore on this storyMedia ptn, Pulse survivor: 'Blood donatns saved my life'More on this story.

For the first time s four- history, Ameri’s largt lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer civil rights anizatn has clared a natnal state of emergency for members of the LGBTQ+ muny, the Human Rights Campaign said Tuday.

“In many s they are rultg vlence agast LGBTQ+ people, forcg fai to uproot their liv and flee their hom search of safer stat, and triggerg a tidal wave of creased homophobia and transphobia that puts the safety of each and every one of at risk. Hospals that provi genr-affirmg re have received ath threats after beg targeted by social media fluencers like Chaya Raichik, the former real tate agent who ns the "Libs of TikTok" acunt on Twter, and featured prime-time diatrib by Fox News's Tucker soft targets for the hard right have clud gay pri paras.

GAY RIGHTS

Over the summer, 31 members of the neo-Nazi Patrt Front were arrted Idaho after a ncerned cizen reported seeg them loadg up a U-Hl wh what looked to be a "ltle army" of men rt the end of November, far-right activists took part at least 55 public actns targetg members of the LGBT+ muny — up om 16 the year before, an crease of some 340% — wh a rrpondg rise vlent attacks on people perceived to be gay or transgenr, acrdg to a report released this week by the Armed Conflict Lotn & Event Data Project, or ACLED. Of the roughly 750 far-right events that have taken place this year — on track to exceed the 780 held 2021 — some 21% have been explicly racist nature, a fdg that after the FBI issued a report warng that whe supremacists ntue to "pose the primary threat" of domtic terrorism, acunt for more than half of all polilly motivated killgs over the last racism remas the primary driver of the far right, anti-LGBTQ actns have "fueled the largt crease far-right prott activy, " the report stat, wh the rise such activy "strongly" rrelatg wh a rise vlent attacks, of which there have been no fewer than 20, cludg the murr last month of five people at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs. So for the people to publicly make a statement that they were gay or lbian was this enormo risk for them — they uld have lost of the statement that was beg ma the early march was the refal to be an visible mory.

That tersectn is as old as the morn fight for LGTBQ rights, and perhaps no moment illtrat that as well as the movement’s most famo turng pot: the 1969 Stonewall Rts, the uprisg sparked by a police raid at a gay bar New York Cy’s Greenwich Village neighborhood, and the tone to which Pri Month is pegged.

As they are today, members of the LGBTQ muny were disproportnately targeted by police durg the 1950s and 1960s, “the most homophobic perd Amerin history, ” says historian Hugh Ryan, thor of When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History. Trans women of lor played a key role the Augt 1966 Compton Cafeteria Rts San Francis, and a police raid on the Black Cat tavern Los Angel on New Years’ Day 1967 rulted anized public protts agast police harassment of gay, trans and genr non-nformg people. For historian Ryan, the Haven Rt 1970, which took place at the Haven gay bar Greenwich Village, was also a landmark event and monstrat that there was a nsistency to the ancy beyond the sgular moment of Stonewall.

The fact that several members of the Black Panther Party, cludg Angela Davis, Afeni Shakur and Joan Bird, had also spent time the prison speaks to the shared nnectns a broar stggle, Ryan says, as lks emerged between the Black Panther Party, the Gay Liberatn Front, radil lbians and the femist and women’s movements. It was after she saw the prison how the opprsn of gay people was nnected to the opprsn of mori that Afeni Shakur went on to anize a meetg between the Black Panther Party and the Gay Liberatn Front at Jane Fonda’s penthoe apartment on the Upper East si 1970.

In late June, the Castro Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Cultural District (CQCD) San Francis voted to remend to the Castro Merchants, the bs associatn that has jurisdictn over the flagpol, that replace the origal Pri flag Harvey Milk Plaza wh a new versn of the flag that’s more clive of Black, brown, and transgenr members of the LGBTQ muny. “[I]t was mostly low-e street queens, aga many of them Black and brown, who fought the ps the streets outsi the Stonewall Inn three years later, ” they ntued, addg that most Whe lbian and gay activists at the time nmned any type of fightg back agast police favor of a more “rpectable” image. The problem wh creatg this kd of hierarchy of rpectabily is that empowers the most privileged gay and lbian people at the expense of members of the queer muny who are still seen as ‘viant, ’ like trans people.