HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS MARCH FOR GAY RIGHTS - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• A BRIEF HISTORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS THE UNED STAT: NATNAL MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS
• NATNAL MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS
• MARCH ON WASHGTON PAVED WAY FOR GAY RIGHTS TOO
• MARCH FOR GAY RIGHTS; GAY MARCHERS THRONG MALL APPEAL FOR RIGHTS
• HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS MARCH FOR GAY RIGHTS
• COLMAN DOMGO IS GAY CIVIL RIGHTS IN BAYARD RT NEW BPIC: PHOTOS
• GAY AND LBIAN MARCH ON WASHGTON
• 'VISIBILY IS PROTECTN' AT MARCH ON WASHGTON TO SUPPORT GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS
• CHILEAN LAWMAKERS REJECT PLAT AGAST GAY TN MISTER
• WHAT IT WAS LIKE AT THE FIRST GAY RIGHTS DEMONSTRATN OUTSI WHE HOE 50 YEARS AGO

A BRIEF HISTORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS THE UNED STAT: NATNAL MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS

Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights. Pass a prehensive lbian/gay rights bill Congrs.

NATNAL MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS

Repeal all anti-lbian/gay laws. End discrimatn lbian mother and gay father ctody s.

Protect gay and lbian youth om any laws which are ed to discrimate agast, oppose and/or harass them their hom, schools, jobs and social environments. The divinds of dissent: how nflict and culture work lbian and gay march on Washgton, HQ76. Marks Ridger, ed., Speakg for Our Liv: Historic Speech and Rhetoric for Gay and Lbian Rights (1892-2000), available as an eBook (2012) through Howard Universy Librari.

Gay liberatn movement -- Washgton (D. Gays -- Uned Stat -- Washgton (D.

MARCH ON WASHGTON PAVED WAY FOR GAY RIGHTS TOO

On April 25, 1993, “The March on Washgton for Lbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberatn” (93 MOW) took place. We mand passage of a lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr civil rights bill and an end to discrimatn by state and feral ernments cludg the ary; repeal of all sodomy laws and other laws that crimalize private sexual exprsn between nsentg adults.

MARCH FOR GAY RIGHTS; GAY MARCHERS THRONG MALL APPEAL FOR RIGHTS

We mand legislatn to prevent discrimatn agast lbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenr people the areas of fay diversy, ctody, adoptn and foster re and that the fn of fay clus the full diversy of all fay stctur. We mand full and equal cln of lbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenr people the tnal system, and cln of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr studi multicultural curricula. I attend the first three Lbian & Gay March on Washgton,.

I somehow found myself Edor of the gay newspaper there, Our Own.

Gay Task Force nference.

HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS MARCH FOR GAY RIGHTS

March and the Gay Freedom Tra that crossed. of gay men and lbians and troduc the Reverend Dr. Gaetan, reprentg Third World gays and lbians (Ramos speaks.

Lucia Valka om the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force speaks. Tom Robson who sgs "Glad to be gay" and "Stand.

who anized the boytt of Coors, speaks on behalf of the gay labor. Reverend John Kuiper, the first gay man to adopt. McCombs of the Gay Atheist League of Ameri, who cri relign.

COLMAN DOMGO IS GAY CIVIL RIGHTS IN BAYARD RT NEW BPIC: PHOTOS

The massacre occurred on a Lat-themed night at the gay nightclub Pulse. The Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights, held on October 14, 1979, was spired part by the assassatn of openly gay California polician Harvey Milk.

The five issu the march supported clud the end of anti-homosexual laws and a ph for a ban on discrimatn the feral ernment based on sexual orientatn.

Thoands of people attend, and the event natnalized the movement for gay rights, which was prevly agmented and foced on problems dividual muni. This Hoe Republin majory has turned even the most route functns of ernment to divisive week, the GOP blew up the annual fense thorizatn bill — which had enjoyed overwhelmg bipartisan support — by tryg to turn to a vehicle for blockg abortn accs, banng books, honorg Conferate generals and dismantlg racial diversy week, Republins took the normally sleepy markup of the humdm Transportatn, Hog and Urban Development appropriatns bill and turned to a vehicle for overt bigotry agast gay and lbian Amerins. ), champng the anti-gay amendment, didn’t nceal his ugly tent.

GAY AND LBIAN MARCH ON WASHGTON

), who is gay, ma a powerful, personal appeal.

”Pon spoke of when he received a piece of mail wh the words “Dead Faggot” over his photo, and when he was once beaten bloody and unnsc wh a baseball bat after leavg a gay bar.

He was Bayard Rt, a man whose life was shaped by the very prejudic the movement fought agast, not only bee of his race, but also bee he was gay. “The qutn is never gog to be homosexualy, ’s gog to be promiscuy, and I n’t fend that.

'VISIBILY IS PROTECTN' AT MARCH ON WASHGTON TO SUPPORT GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS

Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carola brought natnwi media attentn to Bayard after claimg that the march was beg anized by “Communist, draft-dodger and homosexual. However, wh learship wh the movement opposed to his volvement, Rt whdrew his would ntue his role activism, speakg at events for gay rights the 1980s. It was also durg this time, the last years of his life, that Rt gave an terview wh the Washgton Bla, rellg the dualy of beg both black and gay the Civil Rights Movement and how that shaped his refal to hi his sexual moment particular helped motivate his cisn to be open about his sexualy.

', " Rt said the terview, which was released  early 2019 via the podst Makg Gay History. "It occurred to me shortly after that that was an absolute necsy for me to clare homosexualy, bee if I didn't I was a part of the prejudice, " he ntued.

Many Amerins today are faiar wh the history of the Cold War and how Amerin lears and policymakers fought munism abroad, but ls know of the liberate efforts rried out by the feral ernment to prevent the spread of munism the Uned Stat—cludg the surveillance and persecutn of spected “homosexual” cizens. Historilly speakg, homosexualy was often purported as a form of viancy or crimaly. This purge, also known as the “Lavenr Sre, ” began wh feral agenci, who fired or forced the rignatn of dividuals spected to be “homosexual.

CHILEAN LAWMAKERS REJECT PLAT AGAST GAY TN MISTER

The Hoey Report (1950) documented ngrsnal vtigative "fdgs" that falsely lked homosexualy to secury risk the feral workforce. The nsistent terratn of rights for LGBTQ+ cizens durg the “Lavenr Sre” led to the homophile movement and the first documented and anized gay rights picket at the Whe Hoe on April 17, 1965.

5 Frank Kameny, who had been fired om his job as a feral astronomer for beg gay, led the monstratn alongsi members of the Washgton, D. Prott signs read: “Homosexual Cizens Want to Serve Their Country Too!

WHAT IT WAS LIKE AT THE FIRST GAY RIGHTS DEMONSTRATN OUTSI WHE HOE 50 YEARS AGO

Johnson about their tentns:A group of homosexual Amerin cizens, and those supportg their e, is picketg the Whe Hoe, today, lawful, dignified, and orrly prott— the bt Amerin tradn—agast the treatment beg meted out to fifteen ln homosexual Amerin cizens by their ernment—treatment which nstantly mak of them send-class cizens, at bt.

Johnson, brought ccial urgency, energy, and visibily to the movement for LGBTQ+ rights across Ameri and laid the foundatn for the gay liberatn movement—more radil than the prev homophile movement. Followg notable ton for LGBTQ+ equaly the 1970s, cludg the electn of openly gay polician Harvey Milk to ernment office and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s removal of homosexualy om their list of psychiatric disorrs, the gay liberatn movement beme more vol and celebratory than ever before.