How Activists Organized the First Gay Pri Paras | HISTORY

Contents:

• 12 POPULAR CHILDREN’S TV SHOWS THAT HAVE GAY CHARACTERS
• LOUD GAY SCREAM
• HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
• NICKELOON’S ‘LOUD HOE’ TO FEATURE MARRIED GAY COUPLE
• MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST
• WHY ARE THE GAYS SO GODDAMN LOUD?
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

12 POPULAR CHILDREN’S TV SHOWS THAT HAVE GAY CHARACTERS

In fact, three of the leadg mastream children’s ble channels — cludg Disney, Nickeloon and Cartoon Network — have shows wh gay or lbian are twelve popular children’s shows wh gay characters:Photo urty: Getty Imag/LtleBee80. This popular live-actn tween-centric seri 2017 showsed a primary character, 13-year-old Cys Goodman, revealg he is gay. ” The storyle ntued to this year, wh Cys sayg for the first time, “I’m gay” The seri was nceled after three seasons.

While Bowie’s flirtatns wh bi-sexualy often me across more as art statements, Lou Reed’s ambi-sexual private life was a lot more, well, gay. But his younger years, Reed had been the subject of a failed attempt to -gay him by lol quacks that his parents had turned to after beg aware of his tennci. Five months after the rts, activists Craig Rodwell, his partner Fred Sargeant, Ellen Brody and Lda Rhos proposed a rolutn at the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns (ERCHO) Philalphia that a march be held New York Cy to memorate the one-year anniversary of the raid.

LOUD GAY SCREAM

” The ia of “Gay Power” was thrown around, but Schoonmaker said gay dividuals lacked real power to make change, but one thg they did have was pri. ”The Stonewall Inn is a bar loted New York Cy’s Greenwich Village that served as a haven the 1960s for the cy’s gay, lbian and transgenr muny. At the time, homosexual acts remaed illegal every state except Illois, and bars and rtrants uld get shut down for havg gay employe or servg gay patrons.

Most gay bars and clubs New York at the time were operated by the Mafia, who paid rptible police officers to look the other way and blackmailed wealthy gay patrons by threateng to “out” them.

Here, protters monstrate outsi the New York gay bar, Christopher's the early hours of June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn was raid by police wh no warng. Sylvia Rivera was a Lata-Amerin drag queen who beme one of the most radil gay and transgenr activists of the 1960s and '70s. As -founr of the Gay Liberatn Front, Rivera was known for participatg the Stonewall Rts and tablishg the polil anizatn STAR (Street Transvte Actn Revolutnari).

HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS

After the Stonewall Rts, a msage was pated on the outsi of the board-up bar readg, "We homosexuals plead wh out people to please help mata peaceful and quiet nduct on the streets of the village. " This sign was wrten by the Mattache Society–an early anizatn dited to fightg for gay unintified group of young people celebrate outsi the board-up Stonewall Inn after the rts.

More and more supporters gathered outsi the bar, chantg slogans like “gay power” and “we shall overe. ”Over the next several nights, gay activists ntued to gather near the Stonewall, takg advantage of the moment to spread rmatn and build the muny that would fuel the growth of the gay rights movement. They are pictured here marchg Tim Square,, Sylvia Ray Rivera (ont) and Arthur Bell are seen at a gay liberatn monstratn, New York Universy, 1970 Marsha P.

NICKELOON’S ‘LOUD HOE’ TO FEATURE MARRIED GAY COUPLE

Johnson is seen at a Gay Liberatn Front monstratn at Cy Hall New York, a large crowd memorat the 2nd anniversary of the Stonewall rts Greenwich Village of New York Cy 1971.

The march was 51 blocks long om wt of Sixth Avenue at Waverly Place, Greenwich Village, all the way to Sheep’s Meadow Central Park, where activists held a “Gay-. ” Borrowg a technique that had been popularized by the Civil Rights Movement, the “Gay-” was both a prott and a celebratn.

MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST

The ont page of The New York Tim ran wh the headle, “Thoands of Homosexuals Hold A Prott Rally Central Park. The cy marked the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Rts wh a week-long celebratn that clud a Gay Dance, workshops and speech.

” The next day, the Chigo Tribune ran a 75-word story on the third page wh the headle, “Gay Liberatn Stage March to Civic Center. ”Spencer Grant/Getty ImagView of the large crowd, some of whom are holdg up handma signs and banners, participatg a gay and lbian pri para the Back Bay neighborhood of San Francis, activists marched down Polk Street and held a “Gay-” at Goln Gate Park on June 28th, too. On June 11, 1999, Print Bill Clton issued the first-ever proclamatn clarg June to be Gay and Lbian Pri Month.

Super proud of @NickeloonTV and @TheLoudWrers "The Loud Hoe" Introduc Two Perfectly Imperfect Gay Dads — Chris Nee ?️‍? (@chrisdoee) July 18, 2016. At the end of season three, when said high school ex asks if he's gay, Todd is fairly certa he isn't... Benson's sexualy is ma explic the season one episo "Ratland, " which Benson, rponse to his (female) iend Kipo's csh on him, simply says, "I'm gay.

WHY ARE THE GAYS SO GODDAMN LOUD?

Donna Gottschalk—lbian, femist, activist, photographer, artist—at the first Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day march New York Cy, June 28, 1970. Episo NotFrom Eric Marc: After listeng to Makg Gay History’s first two Stonewall 50 episos, you know that Stonewall isn’t where all began. By the time of the June 1969 Stonewall uprisg, the homophile movement was nearly two s old and there were between 50 to 60 anizatns across the untry.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

And pre-Stonewall activists, who numbered the hundreds, were joed by thoands—even tens of thoands—of newly energized activists mted to fightg for gay liberatn. Veteran homophile activists joed wh LGBTQ folks who had earned their strip the Black civil rights movement, the anti-war effort, and the women’s movement to lnch new -your-face anizatns dited to nontg the system—the discrimatn, harassment, and crimalizatn—that forced gay people to live fear. ———Lda Hirshman, thor of Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolutn, puts Stonewall to perspective this 2019 Los Angel Tim episo touch on how the media reported on the Stonewall uprisg at the time.

Ellen Broidy offers her perspective this 2018 terview om the Natnal Park Service’s Stonewall Oral History more about Craig Rodwell  this bgraphil overview and watch him nversatn wh Vo Rso at the Osr Wil Memorial Bookshop this 1983 terview om Rso’s TV show Our Time, startg at this 1994 terview, Martha Shelley discs her volvement wh the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF).

And vis the NYC LGBT Historic S Project webse for more rmatn about Alternate U, the GLF’s home an overview and history of the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), have a look at this article by Lda Rapp om the GLBTQ Archive.