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ASTOR COLLECTN DOCUMENTS FOUR DES OF MEMPHIS’ GAY COMMUNY

Two upg exhibs at the Mm of Science and History (MoSH) will explore the Gay Rights Movement om a natnal perspective and through a lol lens. * memphis gay pride 2016 *

Participants celebrated their own inty as gay, lbian, bisexual, queer or transgenr, or me to back others.

MEMPHIS GAY GUI AND EVENTS CALENDAR

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That explor how the police raid of the Stonewall Inn New York’s Greenwich Village June 1969 beme the spark that igned the morn gay rights movement the Uned Stat. It artifacts and imag to shed light on important ton of gay rights history, om the 1978 assassatn of Harvey Milk–one of the untry’s first openly gay elected officials–to the AIDS crisis. “Rise Up” also exam pop culture’s role fluencg attus about the LGBTQ muny through film, televisn and sports, and exam how the gay rights movement has appropriated the power of public prott and monstratn to get laws changed and to shatter pann exhib is all Memphis and all lolly curated.

GAY PARTI & EVENTS

Memphis Gay Pri March 1983. Gay Day the ParkFor many of , "g out of the closet" was anythg but a piic, but the 1970's thats exactly how the Memphis LGBTQ+ muny chose to e was celebrated back as early as 1976 wh "Gay Day", a piic Audubon Park that was vered by a lol publitn at the time, Gaiety Newspaper. The First Gay River CiseThis photo by Hunter Johnston (far Left) wearg the "GAzE" t-shirt" was taken at the the 1980 Pri Week "Piic", which was anized by the Memphis Gay Coaln and held the U of M area at the home of Jim Ramsey (center-ont holdg the dog).

The piic was followed by the first of many gay river cis held on the Memphis Queen II Riverboat.

The June 1980 cise was promoted as "Party on the River, a Gay Cise on "The Queen II"" There was another cise the tumn billed as " Moon Light Madns". The First MarchThe first of several march was anized Peabody Park begng 1981 by the Memphis Gay Coaln. That same year the Gay Pri River Ri was first held; ntued for 20 years.

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