Day and day out, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr activists fight for their right to live, love, work, be heard and rpected. They risk their safety to ph for a world where all people, regardls of their sexual orientatn, genr inty, and sex characteristics, are treated wh equaly. On some onts, there have been joyo victori, but there is still much to fight for.
Contents:
- CHECHEN POLICE 'KIDNAP AND TORTURE GAY MEN' - LGBT ACTIVISTS
- GAY RIGHTS
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
CHECHEN POLICE 'KIDNAP AND TORTURE GAY MEN' - LGBT ACTIVISTS
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GAY RIGHTS
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
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Eric Marc created the Makg Gay History podst g his s-old d archive of rare terviews—nducted for his award-wng oral history of the LGBTQ civil rights movement—to create timate, personal portras of both known and long-fotten champns, hero, and wns to history. In the early 1960's, Randy Wicker sought to thst the bate over gay liberatn to the natnal nversatn, and his role as the "public relatns director" of the Homosexual League of New York – an anizatnal tle he apparently vented for public relatns purpos – he bombard "straight" media wh proposals for news articl, TV and rad segments on gays and lbians. His biggt succs, a rad broadst of a program featurg gay people discsg their liftyl, moral s, and relatnships wh the "straight" muny, was stmental breakg the unofficial of silence around homosexualy the mastream Vanurs and Marsha P.
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After Morty Manford was kicked and beaten at a monstratn for the Gay Activists Alliance – an anizatn he -found and eventually led – Jeanne Manford wrote a highly publicized letter to the edor fendg him the New York Post. Morty Manford went on to found and lead numero other gay rights anizatns his life, among them the Natnal Coaln of Gay Activists, the Study Group, and the Lambda Club; he was also a Legal Aid lawyer and an Assistant Attorney General of New York State.