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Contents:
- PRO SPORTS READY FOR OPENLY GAY ATHLETE
- MILWKEE LGBT COMMUNY CENTER HAS A BLACK GAY MAN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR THE FIRST TIME
PRO SPORTS READY FOR OPENLY GAY ATHLETE
The pose signatn “LGBT” functns as an acronym to scribe lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr Milwkeeans who, sce the 1960s, have * milwaukee lgbt *
The missn of the Milwkee LGBT Communy Center is to help enrich the liv of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny and as a rult, makg life better for all of . Milwkee Parents, Fai, and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG).
The pose signatn “LGBT” functns as an acronym to scribe lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr Milwkeeans who, sce the 1960s, have challenged the cy and metropolan regn to end genr and sex based forms of discrimatn.
MILWKEE LGBT COMMUNY CENTER HAS A BLACK GAY MAN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR THE FIRST TIME
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By the time of the uprisg at New York’s Stonewall Inn June 1969 and the formatn of gay liberatn groups across the untry, [1] reports om small group discsns that prefigured the women’s liberatn movement had been circulatg for two to three years. Early efforts to anize gay men and women Milwkee clud the formatn of the Gay Liberatn Organizatn (GLO) at the Universy of Wisns-Milwkee (UWM)[2] and two attempts to open femist centers, 1970 and 1971, neher of which lasted. [3] By 1971, Kaleidospe, Milwkee’s “unrground prs, ” reported that had “both a women’s liberatn and a gay liberatn llective, ma up of people on the staff.
Some members of GLO, however, objected to the ancy of the actn and as a rult, the more ant members whdrew om the anizatn, aligng themselv wh the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF), “a mixed-genr, genr-bendg group of radilized men and women” wh roots the prott movements of the 1960s. ” Wh a year, GLF/Milwkee had disband and GLO, now renamed Gay People’s Unn (GPU), wh Alyn Hs as s chairperson, had moved om UWM to the muny. Wh the formatn of GPU 1971 and the openg of the Women’s Coaln 1972, Milwkee activists fed ahead wh wi-rangg efforts on behalf of women, lbians, and gay men, the impact of which were felt throughout the cy and beyond.
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GPU’s foc was homophobia, unrmed by the radil polics of the gay liberatn movement wh s dictment of sexism and sex rol. While GPU looked to the polil procs to end discrimatory practic agast gay men, llg for the repeal of Wisns’s sex laws, [7] the anizatn favored a program of tn, social events and muny buildg. In late 1971 and early 1972, GPU News, which had recently begun publitn, ran a seri of articl on VD[8] and 1974, followg an outbreak of syphilis among gay men, GPU opened the Exam Center for VD.
Bars and Saloons the History of Gay and Lbian life, culture and society Milwkee, Wisns. Includ at the se are histori of anizatns, clubs, bars and other bs by and for the LGBT muny; social and artistic events, people, and plac that had signifint plac the velopment of gay and lbian life the area. * milwaukee lgbt *
Among the founrs was GPU News edor Eldon Murray, whose later activism clud workg on behalf of gay elrs. The clic played a ccial role AIDS work when joed wh other gay and lbian groups 1984 to form the Milwkee AIDS Project (MAP). [9] Ongog legislative efforts to reform Milwkee’s sex laws notwhstandg, lol police ntued to harass and entrap gay men.
In summer 1978, GPU vigoroly protted when the police nducted a seri of raids on gay baths; patrons were charged wh lewd and lasciv behavr. The gay bar has played a central role the liv of gay men and women for s. Wh the end of WWII and the urban migratn of Amerin men and women, cludg those wh homoerotic preferenc, bars sprang up to meet their needs.
[18] Durg the early years of gay anizg, gay bars ntued to play a val role the liv of gay men and lbians—as even a cursory glance at GPU News monstrat.