Durg the 1960s, was practilly illegal to be openly homosexual the Uned Stat of Ameri. Gays uld be fired om jobs, and many were.
Contents:
- US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
- US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
- GAY PRI’S CHOICE: MARCH PROTT OR DANCE WORRI AWAY
- NEW YORK’S GAY PRI PARA ALL S GLORY
US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
* june gay pride 2017 *
NEW YORK — Thoands of people led the streets for LGBT pri paras Sunday ast-to-ast events that took both celebratory and polil ton, the latter a reactn to what some see as new threats to gay rights the Tmp era. One cint, which occurred 1969, is nsired the official gay rights activism anniversary. It all started New York Cy, a gay bar whout water or a liquor license.
Durg the 1960s, was practilly illegal to be openly homosexual the Uned Stat. Gays uld be fired om jobs, and many were. Most tablishments did not wele gay people.
US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
Greenwich Village Manhattan, New York, was home to a large populatn of homosexual men and women. There was a subculture the muny, but New York Cy had many laws prohibg homosexualy public and private. Still, bars were about the saft place for homosexual men to ngregate whout beg harassed.
Mpaigned to remove gay bars the cy. Homosexuals were targeted by the police, and many were arrted bee they were entrapped. Bee the legal system was anti-gay, most lawyers would not fend the men who were charged wh crim.
GAY PRI’S CHOICE: MARCH PROTT OR DANCE WORRI AWAY
The bars that did wele gays were typilly owned by the Mafia, who did not treat the regulars well, but did pay off the police to prevent raids. Stonewall Inn, owned by the Genove crime fay, was nverted to a gay club which dancg was allowed.
NEW YORK’S GAY PRI PARA ALL S GLORY
The gay muny was not gog to accept opprsn any longer.
Other groups across the untry were led to peacefully and not-so-peacefully monstrate for gay rights. The first anniversary of the rts marked the first Gay Pri march. The followg year, seven more major ci, cludg Boston, Dallas, London and Stockholm held Gay Pri paras.
The Stonewall Rts were pivotal to the activism of the gay muny. For years, gays had allowed police treatment to go unchecked and unchallenged.