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PICKET AT DAG HAMMARSKJöLD PLAZA, FOURTH-EVER U.S. GAY RIGHTS PROTT
There were mors he was gay. Intensely private about his personal life, mors of his homosexualy emerged soon after beg elected to his first term, though he is only known to have had a relatnship wh one man. He has been an spiratn to social jtice advot – both gay and straight – for generatns.
Gay. On April 18, 1965, the fourth-ever gay rights monstratn the Uned Stat – and the third New York Cy – took place at Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, across the street om the Uned Natns. Planned to ci wh a picket ont of the Whe Hoe a day earlier, LGBT people protted the treatment of homosexuals both Cuba and the Uned Stat.
On April 15, 1965, an article El Mundo, the Cuban ernment newspaper, exprsed ncern about homosexualy as a social and polil matter s untry. As reported the next day the New York Tim, the Cuban article stated that “no homosexual reprents the [revolutnary] movement, which is a movement of he-men. ” The Tim, and gay activists, unrstood the Cuban ernment’s e of “revolutnary social hygiene” to unrme homosexuals to mean the roundg up of homosexuals to be sent to labor mps.
WAS DAG HAMMARSKJOLD GAY
Frank Kameny, an fluential early gay rights strategist and lear of the Mattache Society of Washgton, D. C., who had advoted for public monstratns for homosexual rights, received lls about stagg pickets om pneerg activists Jack Nichols and Lige Clarke Washgton, and Randy Wicker New York.
Kameny agreed, unr the ndn that any pickets addrs discrimatn agast homosexuals both Cuba and the Uned Stat.