34. Queers the Civil Rights Movement — History is Gay

Contents:

• HISTORY IS GAY
• GAY RIGHTS
• GAY PRI
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
• RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

HISTORY IS GAY

In this ep, Leigh is joed by gut host Frankie la Cretaz, sports journalist, queer history buff, and certified Gaylor Swiftie, to discs the queer history of women’s baseball & softball, particular the story of the All-Amerin Girls Profsnal Baseball League, aka the spiratn behd A League of Their Own! We dive to the rearch and real-life queer San Francis scene Lo explored to create the world of Last Night at the Telegraph Club, as well as her newt book, A Stter of Light, a pann novel set agast backdrop of the first major Supreme Court cisns legalizg gay marriage. While Leigh is workg on puttg together the next regular History is Gay episo for you, we've got a special treat the form of a miso, all about the new film BROS, makg history as the first romantic edy om a major film stud about two gay men and featurg an all LGBTQ+ prcipal st!

History is Gay did some rearch nsultg for the film back 2021 as they were buildg out their set sign of The LGBTQIA+ Mm, which serv as backdrop for some of the film, and Leigh got a chance to s down wh three of the st members who play board members of the mm -- Dot-Marie Jon, Amy Award wner Jim Rash, and Eve Ldley-- to talk about their rol, their own queer history knowledge, and what meant to them to be part of this project! In this send and fal part of this discsn, Leigh and Tyler ver the rise of East Coast Homophile Organizatns (ECHO), s rtcturg as the North Amerin Conference of Homophile Organizatns (NACHO), and the ultimate downfall of NACHO and most of s member anizatns the wake of the Stonewall Rebelln. Outle 0:00 – Introductn and Announcements3:33 – Follow-Ups/Correctns om last episo4:59 – Soc-Historic Context17:16 – Phase One: Comg Together – Regnal anizg & Collaboratn22:21 - 31:07 – Content Warng: Discsn of attempted Nazi vasn26:24 - 26:34 – Content Warng: Suici attempt mentn44:24 – Phase 2: Homophile Organizg Go Natnal1:03:32 – Phase 3: Stonewall & Failure to Capture Lightg a Bottle1:05:04 - 1:05:30 – Content warng: Blood mentn1:14:54 – Epilogue & Fal Thoughts/Takeaways1:18:03 – Pop-Culture Tie-In1:22:26 – How Gay were They?

For this episo, Leigh is joed once aga by gut host Aubree Calv, for a crossover episo wh Southern Queeri talkg about the rise of the anti-gay Christian right movement and homophobic legislatn that swept the Uned Stat the 1970s wh Ana Bryant, Save Our Children, and the Briggs Iniative, whose proponents ed “parental rights” language to jtify their homophobia, an eerily siar manner as we are seeg today wh anti-LGBTQ and specifilly anti-trans legislatn and arguments. Outle 0:00 – Introductn and Announcements Content Warng: Referenc to historil li tyg queer people to child moltatn and child pornography are ntaed this episo the followg time-s: 14:23 - 16:59; 59:33 - 59:48; 1:10:54 - 1:11:06; 1:13:44 - 1:15:32 7:39 – Soc-Historic Context 17:16 – Da County FL, Ana Bryant & Save Our Children 32:06 – LGBTQ Rponse 51:03 – Word of the Week 57:35 – Spread Across the Country: John Briggs & CA’s Proposn 6 1:17:12 – Ma Takeaways and Conclns 1:24:46 – Pop-Culture Tie-In 1:28:23 – How (Anti) Gay were They? Outle0:00 – Introductn10:37 – Soc-Historil Context13:33 – The Amazons of Myth and Legend31:10 – A tour through some Amazon queens38:27-39:05 – Content warng: rape mentn40:34 – Atalanta, The Greek “Amazon” 59:55 – Real-Life Amazons: Warrr Women of Scythia1:09:28 – Why do we thk they're gay?

GAY RIGHTS

We dive to the rearch and real-life queer San Francis scene Lo explored to create the world of Last Night at the Telegraph Club, as well as her newt book, A Stter of Light, a pann novel set agast backdrop of the first major Supreme Court cisns legalizg gay marriage.

10/3/2022While Leigh is workg on puttg together the next regular History is Gay episo for you, we've got a special treat the form of a miso, all about the new film BROS, makg history as the first romantic edy om a major film stud about two gay men and featurg an all LGBTQ+ prcipal st!

GAY PRI

Flore Stettheimer's Gay Salon (An Interview wh Barbara Bloemk)5/17/2022For this bon episo, we're brgg you an terview wh teemed art historian, art director, and curator Barbara Bloemk about her recently published prehensive bgraphy of turn-of-the-century Mornist pater Flore Stettheimer. The Life of Pli Murray: My Genr is Imp, Part 27/15/2021In this episo of History is Gay, Leigh and gut host Aubree Calv return to the story of Pli Murray, an important Ain Amerin lawyer, and activist who is fally gettg the historil attentn they serve. Claim to Flame: Edmonia "Wildfire" Lewis and her Harem Srem3/22/2021In this episo of History is Gay Leigh and gut host Amanda Helton discs Mary Edmonia “Wildfire” Lewis, the first ternatnally regnized Ain Amerin and digeno artist the Uned Stat.

Leighton, Universy of Nebraska-Lln“Rodney Powell: A Send Fight for Equal Rights” by Jaquetta Whe “A Letter om Rodney Powell, Gay Man Who Helped Lead the Freedom Ris” The Civil Rights Collectn of the Nashville Public LibraryAcross Des, Rodney Powell ‘57 Fought for ChangeAaron Henry, Who Speaks for the Negro? ” by Arika Okrent”The Double Life of Lorrae Hansberry” (OUT Magaze, September 1999)The Quiet Lbian Bgraphy of Lorrae Hansberry”Lorrae Hansberry’s Gay Polics” by Kai Wright“Lorrae Hansberry’s Secret Lbian Herstory Touched Upon New Documentary” by Sherv KayvonLorrae Hansberry: Letters to The Ladr - Illois History & Lln Collectns“Lorrae Hansberry’s Letters Reveal the Playwright’s Private Stggle” by Melissa Anrson“Openg the Rtricted Box: Lorrae Hansberry’s Lbian Wrg” by Kev MumfordWikipedia: Rodney N.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

PowellWikipedia: Ernte Eckste“The Importance of Beg Ernte Eckste, Pneer the Early Gay Rights Movement” by Lter Fabian Brathwae“Gay Liberatn Need the Civil Rights Movement” by Michelle GarciaMakg Gay History: Ernte EcksteBooks and Prt Articl:Lookg for Lorrae: The Radiant and Radil Life of Lorrae Hansberry by Dr. Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter.

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.

RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN

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.

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. 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.

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

Siar groups followed, cludg the Gay Activists Alliance, Radilbians, and Street Transvt Actn Revolutnari (STAR) 1970, at the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, New York Cy muny members marched through lol streets memoratn of the event.

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. 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.