Different fight, 'same goal': How the Black eedom movement spired early gay activists

Contents:

• AIN-AMERINS QUTN COMPARG GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT TO CIVIL RIGHTS
• IS THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT SIAR TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT?
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• GAY RIGHTS
• DIFFERENT FIGHT, 'SAME GOAL': HOW THE BLACK EEDOM MOVEMENT SPIRED EARLY GAY ACTIVISTS
• WHAT THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT LEARNED OM THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• #FLASHBACKFRIDAY – THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT. [VTAGE VIO CLIPS]
• GAY RIGHTS VS. CIVIL RIGHTS
• THE ROLE OF GAY MEN AND LBIANS THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT VS. CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• ARE GAY RIGHTS CIVIL RIGHTS?
• WHAT HISTORY SAYS ABOUT COMPARG GAY RIGHTS TO CIVIL RIGHTS

AIN-AMERINS QUTN COMPARG GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT TO CIVIL RIGHTS

That is the GRIGSBY BATES, BYLINE: And 's an important one for Ain-Amerin televisn host Roland Mart bee, he says, black Amerins back the '60s were more disenanchised than LGBT people are And so we get Ain-Amerins Jim Crow who uldn't vote, who uldn't stay hotels, who uldn't stay rtrants, but if you were whe and gay, you Reverend Patrick Walker agre.

E., for lbians, gays [homosexual mal], bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons); seeks to elimate sodomy laws; and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life. ) Gay rights prr to the 20th century Relig admonns agast sexual relatns between dividuals of the same sex (particularly men) long stigmatized such behavur, but most legal s Europe were silent on the subject of homosexualy and bisexualy. Dpe Paragraph 175 and the failure of the WhK to w s repeal, homosexual and bisexual men and women experienced a certa amount of eedom Germany, particularly durg the Weimar perd, between the end of World War I and the Nazi seizure of power.

In the Uned Stat this greater visibily brought some backlash, particularly om the ernment and the police: the ernment often fired gay civil servants, the ary attempted to purge s ranks of gay soldiers (a policy enacted durg World War II), and police vice squads equently raid gay bars and arrted their patrons. In the Uned Stat the first major male anizatn, found 1950–51 by Harry Hay Los Angel, was the Mattache Society (s name reputedly rived om a medieval French society of masked players, the Société Mattache, to reprent the public “maskg” of homosexualy), while the Dghters of Bilis (named after the Sapphic love poems of Pierre Louÿs, Chansons Bilis), found 1955 by Phyllis Lyon and Del Mart San Francis, was a leadg group for women.

IS THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT SIAR TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT?

In Bra 1957 a missn chaired by Sir John Wolfenn issued a groundbreakg report (see Wolfenn Report) remendg that private homosexual liaisons between nsentg adults be removed om the doma of crimal law; a later the remendatn was implemented by Parliament the Sexual Offenc Act. In the 1970s and ’80s, gay polil anizatns proliferated, particularly the Uned Stat and Europe, and spread to other parts of the globe, though their relative size, strength, and succs—and toleratn by thori—varied signifintly.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Now headquartered Geneva and renamed the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA World), plays a signifint role ordatg ternatnal efforts to promote human rights and fight discrimatn agast LGBTQ and tersex persons. This support, along wh mpaigns by gay activists urgg gay men and women to “e out of the closet” (ed, the late 1980s, Natnal Comg Out Day was tablished, and is now celebrated on October 11 most untri), enuraged gay men and women to enter the polil arena as ndidat. At the lol and natnal levels, the number of openly gay policians creased dramatilly durg the 1990s and 2000s, and 2009 Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir beme prime mister of Iceland, which ma her the world’s first openly gay head of ernment.

GAY RIGHTS

In Ai, Asia, and Lat Ameri, openly gay policians have had only limed succs wng office; notable electns to natnal legislatur clud Patria Jiménez Flor Mexi (1997), Mike Waters South Ai (1999), and Clodovil Hernans Brazil (2006).

DIFFERENT FIGHT, 'SAME GOAL': HOW THE BLACK EEDOM MOVEMENT SPIRED EARLY GAY ACTIVISTS

Other issu of primary importance for the gay rights movement sce the 1970s clud batg the HIV/AIDS epimic and promotg disease preventn and fundg for rearch; lobbyg ernment for nondiscrimatory polici employment, hog, and other aspects of civil society; endg the ban on ary service for gay and lbian dividuals; expandg hate crim legislatn to clu protectns for gays, cludg transgenr dividuals; and securg marriage rights for same-sex upl (see same-sex marriage).

Ary’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy (1993–2011), which had permted gay and lbian dividuals to serve the ary if they did not disclose their sexual orientatn or engage homosexual activy; the repeal effectively end the ban on homosexuals the ary. On April 25, 1965, three teenagers refed to leave Dewey’s Rtrant Philalphia after employe repeatedly nied service to “homosexuals and persons wearg nonnformist clothg, ” acrdg to Dm magaze, which was created by the Jan Society, an early gay rights teens were arrted and charged wh disorrly nduct, and Jan Society members protted outsi of the rtrant for the next five days, acrdg to Marc Ste, a history profsor at San Francis State Universy.

WHAT THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT LEARNED OM THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

"Eric Cervi, LGBTQ Historian“Unlike so many other episos, kd of bed issu of homosexualy and trans issu, ” Ste, thor of “Rethkg the Gay and Lbian Movement, ” told NBC May 2, three more people staged a send s- at Dewey’s.

Specifilly, s-s anized by gay activists the ‘60s appear to be directly spired by protts held 1960 by Black llege stunts at Woolworth’s lunch unter Greensboro, North Carola, agast racial stunts wa va for food service at this F.

#FLASHBACKFRIDAY – THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT. [VTAGE VIO CLIPS]

C., one of the first homophile groups ("homophile" beg the adjective of choice at the time), and he drew strategi directly om the Black civil rights movement, acrdg to Eric Cervi, a historian and thor of “The Deviant’s War, ” which foc on Kameny and the early gay rights movement. (In fact, 1979, activists would anize a Natnal March on Washgton for Gay and Lbian Rights, which drew an timated 200, 000 protters, acrdg to the Natnal LGBT Chamber of Commerce) hold signs as they participate the Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian & Gay Rights Washgton, DC, on Oct. A aln of gay and lbian anizatns held a yearly peaceful prott at Inpennce Hall lled the Annual Remr om 1965 to 1969, which Ste said were fluenced by the early civil rights monstratns which monstrators were stcted to drs rpectably, wh women drs and men sus.

”Crowd attempts to impe police arrts outsi the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street New York's Greenwich Village York Daily News via Getty ImagCervi said FBI reports explicly nnect the Black Freedom Movement and the early homophile movement. ”“This ia of a aln between the two anizatns — that the Black Freedom Movement might be spirg this other group of Amerin cizens who are also margalized, and the fact that they may both be takg to the streets, perhaps ordatn — that is what sred them the most, ” Cervi said of the FBI and Southern racist Kameny and Mattache Society of Washgton members marchg New York, June Tob Lahen / NYPLHowever, the homophile movement, at least New York and Washgton, never ma that aln a realy, Cervi said he the word “plagiarism” to scribe how Kameny ed civil rights tactics whout workg wh or credg the activists whose tactics he ed. Kuromiya -found the Gay Liberatn Front’s Philalphia chapter and beme a spokperson for a homosexual workshop at the Black Panther’s Revolutnary People's Constutnal Conventn September 1970, acrdg to gave a prentatn “to the huge dience of the nventn to applse, ” Ste said of Kuromiya, cg this as one of many exampl showg that the movements weren’t agmented or divid at the time some ci.

GAY RIGHTS VS. CIVIL RIGHTS

Marshall’s legal strategy, which volved g the due procs and equal protectn cls of the 14th Amendment, served as a mol that the LGBTQ movement ed to challenge the crimalizatn of homosexualy and the nial of marriage rights. Outlg the group’s posn on the two emergg movements, Newton wrote: “Whatever your personal opns and your securi about homosexualy and the var liberatn movements among homosexuals and women (and I speak of the homosexuals and women as opprsed groups), we should try to une wh them a revolutnary fashn. Wh the nsirable amount of attentn beg paid to racism and LGBTQ rights the days—wh the Conferate flag and Charlton massacre on the one hand, and the Supreme Court marriage equaly cisn on the other—there have been efforts to pare the two, as if to say the Black stggl agast racism are the same as the LGBT muny agast homophobia.

THE ROLE OF GAY MEN AND LBIANS THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

NBJC’s missn is to end racism and Releasg, 2008 | WatchTongu UntiedMarlon Riggs' say film Tongu Uned giv voice to muni of black gay men, prentg their cultur and perspectiv on the world as they nont racism, homophobia and margalizatn.

Wner of ten Bt Documentary awards, cludg the GLAAD Media Award for Outstandg Documentary, Livg wh Pri was directed by Yvonne Welbon and has been screened over 150 venu around the Boyk | Anchor Books, 1998 | BookOne More River to CrossAgast a backdrop of civil rights and the black experience Ameri, Boyk terviews Baptist misters, gay polil lears, and other black gays and lbians on issu of fah, fay, discrimatn and visibily to terme what differenc — real and imaged — separate the two muni. However, where LGBT issu and racial issu tersect, I mt emphatilly draw an equivalency orr to make a pot that I'm particularly passnate about: people on both sis -- liberal and nservative, pro-LGBT and anti-LGBT -- actively avoid equatg gay rights wh civil rights. We have been persecuted by religns and ernments for centuri, imprisoned, strated, lobotomized, queer-bashed, 'rrectively' raped and subjected to other 'separate but equal' laws, forced to damagg 'pray away the gay' therapy, terred ncentratn mps, stoned, and hanged.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT VS. CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

But perhaps was the late Coretta Stt Kg, who voted her life to the same civil rights for which her hband gave his life, who said bt when she famoly remarked 2003:I still hear people say that I should not be talkg about the rights of lbian and gay people...

ARE GAY RIGHTS CIVIL RIGHTS?

Refg to acknowledge this realy only serv to unjtly acmodate homophobic bigotry, rerce artificially nstcted hierarchi of opprsn, and distract om our fundamental obligatn to fend the rights of all our fellow human begs.

WHAT HISTORY SAYS ABOUT COMPARG GAY RIGHTS TO CIVIL RIGHTS

And the civil rights movement really pneered the ncept as a powerful polil ncept of mory rights and ma easier for gays to beg to pict themselv as a mory who served the same civil rights that other Amerins and other mori the civil rights movement pneered many of the anizatnal forms and polil strategi that are important to the gay movement, women's movement, the Lato movement, and many others. Even the march themselv, the March on Washgton '63 was followed jt two years later by the first gay civil rights pickets outsi the Whe Hoe and Inpennce Hall Philalphia, and by the first Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights 1979.