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Contents:

• GIANT GAY REPELLENT UMBRELLA
• PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI
• LARGE RABOW PANEL GAY PRI UMBRELLA - LGBT GAY AND LBIAN PRI GIFTS AND MERCHANDISE
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• VIO: BUILDG A GIANT GAY-REPELLENT UMBRELLABY VANY FAIRAPRIL 21, 2009SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVE"THERE'S A LD ONT G , AND 'S GAY PEOPLE!"VANY FAIR
• XL ANAL BUTT PLUG BIG DILDO DONG MONSTER FAT MASSIVE LARGE GAY ADULT SEX TOY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY

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PolicslolAnother spoof of the untentnally hilar gay marriage storm that volv Lance Bass, Alicia Silverstone and a big honkg umbrella to protect om the threateng gay by Stt LambBuzzFeed, VP of InternatnalPosted on April 21, 2009, 7:13 pmA Gaytherg Storm om Jane LynchStt LambBuzzFeed, VP of InternatnalI mostly like old, unpopular thgs, like om 2002. Over the past week New York Cy, hundreds of homosexuals had fought police a week-long rt Greenwich Village, followg a botched police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a mafia-n bar equented by LGBTQ+ people. And secretly wh myself I cid that when I me back stati, if I should survive to e back stati, I would e out as a gay person.

Followg this explosn of rage, LGBTQ+ people New York and further afield transformed the small pre-existg gay rights movement. Soon they were advotg nothg ls than “gay liberatn” nscns-raisg groups to fundraisg danc, protts outsi hostile newspapers to refug for homels trans and queer people, this surge LGBTQ+ anisg took many forms, and as the first anniversary of the rts me to view, some the muny began discsg how bt to mark what was beg regard as the “Bastille day” of gay rights.

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

As the gay rights movement grew, so did the march, which me to be llectively known as Gay Pri and then Pri paras.

Wh a sgle lifetime, homosexualy has moved om beg a crime and a psychiatric disorr, punished the US by imprisonment, chemil stratn, social ostracisatn and a lifetime as a registered sex offenr, to a socially and legally regnised sexual inty. To relig and cultural nservativ, Pri paras are nothg ls than the public flntg of viancy, while many LGBTQ+ people regard today’s rporate-sponsored paras as havg sold out the radil, revolutnary mands of the gay liberatn movement. Those who were key to the kickstartg of gay liberatn – trans people, people of lour and workg-class LGBTQ+ people – have gaed the least om the mastreamg of the stggle.

LARGE RABOW PANEL GAY PRI UMBRELLA - LGBT GAY AND LBIAN PRI GIFTS AND MERCHANDISE

The roots of that bate go back to s earlit days, and suggt that Pri and the Stonewall rts have always been part of a ntent battle for inty and ownership – a battle that has helped produce the very ia of what beg a lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or queer person might Stonewall rts were not the birth of the gay rights movement. Seven years before that, when police had raid Coopers, a donut shop the cy ntled between two gay bars, LGBTQ+ patrons had attacked officers after the arrt of a number of drag queens, sex workers and gay had been a gay rights movement the US among people scribg themselv as “homophil” sce the late 40s.

Hirschfeld’s scientific approach, bed wh his sympathetic treatment of LGBTQ+ people – he was himself homosexual – had been key velopg the ia that their shared experienc uld be unrstood not jt as discrete sexual (and crimal) acts, nor as psychiatric illns, but as a legible sexual and genr inty, which uld be afford civil rights. When gay people began anisg the US after the war, they were forced to start aga om first prcipl, wh only a vague awarens of Hirschfeld’s Hirschfeld, an early mpaigner for gay rights. Photograph: Getty ImagIn Los Angel 1950, a group of experienced polil activists and munists, cludg Communist party USA member Harry Hay, me together to form the Mattache Society, one of the first homosexual rights anisatns the US.

) The Mattache Society had radil roots activism, takg on the anisatnal stcture of cells and central anisatn favoured by the Communist well as publishg magaz for gay men, and supportg victims of police entrapment, the society had wir polil aims, cludg to “unify homosexuals isolated om their own kd” and to “te homosexuals and heterosexuals toward an ethil homosexual culture parallelg the cultur of the Negro, Mexin and Jewish peopl”. It wasn’t enough to fend men who had sex wh men; rather, a polil stggle uld only be waged by creatg the ia of the homosexual as an inty, the same polil mol as other mori – someone who uld regnise him or herself as part of a wir culture. Such aims would bee key to the ncept of “gay pri” some two s two s, however, would be among the harst for LGBTQ+ people US history, as the greater visibily of the homosexual inty led to a nservative backlash, and a moral panic the media that was palised upon by policians.

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In 1952, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn clud homosexualy s new Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs, classifyg as a “socpathic personaly disturbance”. Meanwhile, Senator Joe McCarthy was g public revulsn towards homosexuals his mpaign agast leftists. Communists and homosexuals were extribly lked as anti-Amerin subversiv, he argued.

”In 1953, Print Dwight Eisenhower passed executive orr 10450, prohibg homosexuals om workg for the feral ernment – an orr that stayed place, part, until 1995.

Ironilly, sackg 5, 000 feral employe and thstg them out of the closet, the red-baers provid a new hort of activists for the homophile movement, such as the army map service astronomer Frank Kameny, who voted the rt of his life to the LGBTQ+ e.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

After he was forced to appear before the Hoe Un-Amerin Activi Commtee, Hay was expelled om the Mattache Society, now a growg anisatn of a few thoand men, and he wasn’t the last radil to be thrown homophile movement began to tackle “subversive elements” and orient self around rpectabily. Adherg to a strict drs of shirt and tie for men and drs for women, 39 activists om var homophile anisatns turned up to “ask for equaly, opportuny, digny”.

The bravery of the men and women nnot be overstated, but the approach of quiet, pole lobbyg would make few roads to a culture of stutnalised homophobia.

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It didn’t matter if homosexuals were succsful, law-abidg, and nventnal – they were still un-Amerin.

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A bar uld lose s liquor licence merely for servg a patron knew to be homosexual, sce homosexuals were, by their very nature, regard as “disorrly”. In 1966, the Mattache Society challenged this policy wh a “sip-” at Juli’, a Greenwich Village bar that was popular wh gay men, but was attemptg to shake off s homosexual bars equently flouted this law, explog legal loophol and payg off the NYPD while chargg their LGBTQ+ ctomers high pric for watered-down drks.

Unlike the clientele of Juli’, who tend to be whe, middle-class gay men, the Stonewall Inn tered to more ethnilly mixed ctomers, maly gay men, alongsi trans women and some lbians such as Stormé DeLarverie. Photograph: Michelle V Ags/New York Tim/Rx/eyeveThe creatn of the queer cultur that preced an explic homosexual polil inty was the work of many hands, across many generatns.

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Men and women who had experienced homosexual sex, relatnships and even subcultur the forc were changed by the experienc, and by war self.

Port ci like San Francis and New York particular beme home to many such displaced the time of the rts, there were enough gay bars New York to necsate discreet guis for visors. While gay guis of the time scribe bars such as Juli’ and Candy Store as “mixed-llegiate” or “very elegant”, Stonewall was dismissed as a place terg only to young dancers. In the Homosexual Handbook, published 1969, Angelo D’Arngelo (sadly a psdonym) scrib as “a haven of and for narcissists”.

Such guis tend to be wrten by and for more affluent gay men who had enough money to pick and choose. Dpe his own rervatns about the place, Mattache activist Dick Lesch, wrg jt a month after the rts, acknowledged how Stonewall was more than jt a dance bar, terg for those “who are not wele, or nnot afford, other plac of homosexual social gatherg”. By the time rt police had been sent to relieve them, a long supprsed sense of gay rage and tratn had been released.