Amerinism, Un-Amerinism, and the Gay Rights Movement - Volume 47 Issue 4
Contents:
- GAY RIGHTS
- HARVEY MILK’S GAY FREEDOM DAY SPEECH: ANNOTATED
- THE STONEWALL RTS DIDN’T START THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND PATRTIC PROTT
- THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT: A TIMELE
- PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI
- AMERINISM, UN-AMERINISM, AND THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
GAY RIGHTS
SIMON HALL, The Amerin Gay Rights Movement and Patrtic Prott, Journal of the History of Sexualy, Vol. 19, No. 3 (SEPTEMBER 2010), pp. 536-562 * the american gay rights movement and patriotic protest *
Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group. ”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze.
Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review.
HARVEY MILK’S GAY FREEDOM DAY SPEECH: ANNOTATED
The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage. * the american gay rights movement and patriotic protest *
That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D. ”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue.
THE STONEWALL RTS DIDN’T START THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Five months before his assassatn 1978, Harvey Milk lled on the print of the Uned Stat to fend the rights of gay and lbian Amerins. * the american gay rights movement and patriotic protest *
They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn.
1 / 12: NY Daily News Archive/Getty ImagChristopher Street Liberatn Day Shortly after the Stonewall uprisg, members of the Mattache Society spl off to form the Gay Liberatn Front, a radil group that lnched public monstratns, protts and nontatns wh polil officials.
Addnally, several openly LGBTQ dividuals secured public office posns: Kathy Kozachenko won a seat to the Ann Harbor, Michigan, Cy Council 1974, beg the first out Amerin to be elected to public Milk, who mpaigned on a pro-gay rights platform, beme the San Francis cy supervisor 1978, beg the first openly gay man elected to a polil office asked Gilbert Baker, an artist and gay rights activist, to create an emblem that reprents the movement and would be seen as a symbol of pri.
THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND PATRTIC PROTT
536 I would like to thank Patrick Michelson, Denis Flannery, and the anonymo reviewers for the Journal of the History of Sexualy for their enuragg and nstctive ments on earlier drafts of this article. I would also like to acknowledge the fancial support provid by the Brish Amy and the School of History, Universy of Leeds, which ma the rearch for this article possible. 1 Quoted Myra MacPherson, “Ulrich v. the Pentagon: A Homosexual Fights Back,” Washgton Post, 11 September 1971, 5, seri 4, prted ephemera, box 22A, folr 1, Sorted Prs Clippgs, Alabama–D.C., reel 19, The Gay Rights Movement: Gay Activists Alliance, om the Internatnal Gay Informatn Center, New York Public Library (microfilm, New York: Rearch Publitns Internatnal, 1998), available for viewg at the London School of Enomics and Polil Science. Hereafter referred to as GAA Rerds. 2 Quoted Walter L. Williams and Yolanda Retter, eds., Gay and Lbian Rights the Uned Stat: A Documentary History (Wtport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2003), 283. The Amerin Gay Rights Movement and Patrtic Prott * the american gay rights movement and patriotic protest *
In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn published a report about five prevly healthy homosexual men beg fected wh a rare type of 1984, rearchers had intified the e of AIDS—the human immunoficiency vis, or HIV—and the Food and Dg Admistratn licensed the first mercial blood tt for HIV 1985.
But after failg to garner enough support for such an open policy, Print Clton 1993 passed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy, which allowed gay men and women to serve the ary as long as they kept their sexualy a rights advot cried the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, as did ltle to stop people om beg discharged on the grounds of their 2011, Print Obama fulfilled a mpaign promise to repeal DADT; by that time, more than 12, 000 officers had been discharged om the ary unr DADT for refg to hi their sexualy. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was officially repealed on September 20, Marriage and Beyond In 1992, the District of Columbia passed a law that allowed gay and lbian upl to register as domtic partners, grantg them some of the rights of marriage (the cy of San Francis passed a siar ordance three years prr and California would later extend those rights to the entire state 1999) 1993, the hight urt Hawaii led that a ban on gay marriage may go agast the state’s nstutn.
THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT: A TIMELE
SIMON HALL, Amerinism, Un-Amerinism, and the Gay Rights Movement, Journal of Amerin Studi, Vol. 47, No. 4, Special Issue The "Un-Amerin" (November 2013), pp. 1109-1130 * the american gay rights movement and patriotic protest *
In 1994, a new anti-hate-crime law allowed judg to impose harsher sentenc if a crime was motivated by a victim’s sexual Matthew Shepard ActCourty of the Matthew Shepard FoundatnMatthew Shepard, who was btally killed a hate crime 2003, gay rights proponents had another b of happy news: the U. Gay rights proponents mt also ntent wh an creasg number of “relig liberty” state laws, which allow bs to ny service to LGBTQ dividuals due to relig beliefs, as well as “bathroom laws” that prevent transgenr dividuals om g public bathrooms that don’t rrpond to their sex at birth.
The two most visible figur behd the legislative manvers were John Briggs, a state Senator California, who sought to remove openly lbian and gay teachers wh Proposn 6 (the phrase “public homosexual” repeats throughout the proposn); and Ana Bryant, whose “Save Our Children” anizatn succsfully helped overturn equal rights ordanc Miami, Florida; Eugene, Oregon; Wicha, Kansas; and St.
PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI
The followg timele lists the signifint events of the gay rights movement om 1924 to the prent. * the american gay rights movement and patriotic protest *
If you do not speak out, if you rema silence, if you do not lift up your voice agast Briggs, then I ll upon lbians and gay men om all over the natn, your natn, to gather Washgton one year om now on that natnal day of eedom, the fourth of July…the fourth of July, 1979…to gather Washgton on that very same spot where over a ago Dr. The New York Tim scribed the "ftive" tone of the proceedgs and emphasized the diversy of the marchers: "[They] were a long, ebullient para of ps and veterans, drag queens and llege stunts, gay parents wh toddlers on their backs and heterosexual parents marchg support of gay children. This timele provis rmatn about the gay rights movement the Uned Stat om 1924 to the prent: cludg the Stonewall rts; the ntributns of Harvey Milk; the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy; the first civil unns; the legalizatn of same-sex marriage Massachetts, Connecticut, New York; and more.
AMERINISM, UN-AMERINISM, AND THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
<strong>The long read</strong>: A police raid on a gay bar New York led to the birth of the Pri movement half a century ago – but the fight for LGBTQ+ rights go back much further than that * the american gay rights movement and patriotic protest *
At the 1980 Democratic Natnal Conventn held at New York Cy's Madison Square Garn, Democrats took a stance supportg gay rights, addg the followg to their plank: "All groups mt be protected om discrimatn based on race, lor, relign, natnal orig, language, age, sex or sexual orientatn.
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Appeals to the Declaratn of Inpennce and the Bill of Rights have been ma forcefully by gay rights activists and femists, for stance, while participants the antibg movement, the tax revolt, and the mpaign agast abortn rights have waved the Amerin flag and claimed the support of the natn's tracg the ntuatn of qutsentially "Sixti" forms of prott and ias to the last three s of the twentieth century, and emphasizg their legacy for nservativ as well as those on the left, Amerin Patrtism, Amerin Prott shows that the activism of the civil rights, New Left, and anti-Vietnam War movements has shaped Ameri's morn polil culture cisive ways. 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.
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.