LGBTQ History Month: Early pneers of the gay rights movement

Contents:

• GAY PNEERS
• 9 PNEERS OF THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT YOU NEED TO KNOW (BUT PROBABLY DON'T)
• LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: EARLY PNEERS OF THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
• IN A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT ONCE SHUNNED HIM, A BOSTON GAY RIGHTS PNEER FALLY GETS HIS MOMENT
• PATRICK HAGGERTY, ‘LOST PNEER’ OF GAY COUNTRY MIC, DI AT 78
• MEET PNEER OF GAY RIGHTS, HARRY HAY
• WAKEFIELD POOLE, PNEER GAY PORNOGRAPHY, DI AT 85
• A SEND ACT FOR THE DOUBLE HEAR, THE PNEER SQUARE GAY BAR THAT LNCHED A THOAND STORI
• JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS
• LAKE BLUFF NSIRS FLYG GAY PRI FLAG ON VILLAGE FLAGPOLE; ‘WE N SEND THE RIGHT MSAGE, THAT WE ARE AN ACCEPTG ... MUNY’

GAY PNEERS

He died the followg year, but his extensive activism clud fightg for the passage of New York’s gay rights bill and urgg the NAACP to acknowledge the AIDS ncept of “lbian rights” was virtually nonexistent buttoned-up 1950s Ameri. But perhaps the greatt legacy she left behd is the Amerin Library Associatn’s biblgraphy of lerature about gays and lbians, one of the first llectns of s sprg 1980, Aaron Fricke looked forward to attendg prom wh the rt of his classmat at Cumberland High Rho Island.

9 PNEERS OF THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT YOU NEED TO KNOW (BUT PROBABLY DON'T)

In 1992, she joed other activists a lawsu challengg a Colorado amendment that banned extendg civil rights protectns to gay Milk wh a mpaign poster. / John Phillips/GettyImagThe Stonewall Rts of 1969, which a late-night police raid of a New York Cy gay bar evolved to a fiant prott by patrons, is largely seen as the drivg event behd the morn LGBTQ rights movement.

/ Getty / Mark Wilson / StaffLeonard Matlovich wasn’t the first gay man to serve the ary, but he may have been the first to e out on such a public platform. An terview wh The New York Tim soon followed, and then a famo appearance on the ver of TIME magaze that displayed his portra above the words I Am a Homosexual. ”Even after the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn classified homosexualy as an illns 1973, the stigma persisted the medil muny; gay patients were often approached as sick dividuals who need to be cured.

Richard Isay was one of the first proment psychiatrists/psychoanalysts to enurage his gay patients to accept themselv rather than ny their feelgs. Gay Pneers braids archival footage om the semal monstratns; FBI vtigative fil obtaed unr the Freedom of Informatn Act; gay pneer terviews about the homophobia of that era, the protol for the monstratns and how those monstratns impacted the movement and Barbara Gtgs, Frank Kameny and Lilli Vcenz on-mera 2004 discsg same-sex marriage. Showg at a meetg of a stunt club (monly known as a Gay-Straight Alliance, or GSA), and leadg a discsn afterward (you n e some of the qutns this gui to help you do so).

LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: EARLY PNEERS OF THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

McCarthyism: Named for Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisns), a perd the early 1950s when the ernment sought to expose Communists, LGBT people and other polil dissints (often intified as homosexual) om Amerin public life. Annual Remr: An annual picket march outsi Inpennce Hall Philalphia 1965-69 to “remd” Amerins that homosexuals were entled to equal treatment like all other cizens.

When Dwight Eisenhower beme Print 1953, he issued Executive Orr 10450, which ma homosexualy grounds for nyg or dismissg persons om feral employment.

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

Dpe this climate, emergg homophile groups like the Mattache Society advoted for the equal treatment of gays and lbians, but due to the threats they faced, tend to be nservative their tactics. This strategy, though effective, tend to exclu people who didn’t f the “norm” that the homophile movement wanted to emphasize—that is, LGBT people of lor, low-e people, and those nsired “genr viants. The civil rights, black power, anti-war, and women’s movements of the mid- to late- 1960s, however, greatly spired younger gays and lbians to move to a more radil, ant stance.

A new era had begun, one which lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people uld mand to be acrd equal rights, and one which might not have happened were not for the early activists who staged the protts documented Gay Pneers.

Zefart via Getty ImagMagn HirschfeldBorn 1868 what is now Poland, sexologist Hirschfeld is often nsired the "Este of Sex" and was an outspoken advote for gay and transgenr rights. Via Getty ImagBayard RtRt, an openly gay civil rights activist and adviser to Mart Luther Kg Jr., is bt remembered as the chief anizer of the 1963 March on Washgton.

IN A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT ONCE SHUNNED HIM, A BOSTON GAY RIGHTS PNEER FALLY GETS HIS MOMENT

Via Getty ImagChristopher IsherwoodBorn 1904 Manchter, England, Isherwood was an openly gay novelist and wrer known for myriad works cludg A Sgle Man, which later beme a movie starg Col Firth and Julianne Moore. Chris Felver via Getty ImagJohn FryerAt the 1972 nventn of the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, when homosexualy was still nsired a mental illns, Dr. WIKIMEDIA COMMONSTroy PerryReverend Perry found the Metropolan Communy Church 1968 as a reactn to his experience wh discrimatn om the relig muny bee of his homosexualy.

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PATRICK HAGGERTY, ‘LOST PNEER’ OF GAY COUNTRY MIC, DI AT 78

S., San Francis Kameny and a prisoner Tob / New York Public LibraryFrank Kameny — One of the earlit gay rights activists, Kameny is known today for prottg after beg fired om a U.

MEET PNEER OF GAY RIGHTS, HARRY HAY

Barbara Gtgs and Dick Lesch talkgKay Tob / New York Public LibraryDick Lesch — Lesch was print the Mattache Society, one of the first "homophile" anizatns the U. She and Frank Kameny worked together to list homosexualy as a mental disorr, which the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn approved Shelley sells the Gay Liberatn Front paper durg a Weste Hall monstratn New York Davi / New York Public LibraryMartha Shelley — One of the first members of the Gay Liberatn Front, Shelley is one of the bt-known lbian activists Ameri.

WAKEFIELD POOLE, PNEER GAY PORNOGRAPHY, DI AT 85

The name "Shelley" was an alias taken to avoid beg intified FBI surveillance of the Dghters of Mae Brown, Lavenr Menace T-shirt, at the Lavenr Menace Actn, May Davi/NYPLRa Mae Brown — A lbian activist and femist active startg the 1970s, Brown was a member of the Gay Liberatn Front, Lavenr Menace, and joed a lbian mune Washgton, D. NYPL has the archiv of pivotal anizatns, such as the Mattache Society of New York and the Gay Activists Alliance; the papers of pneerg activists like Barbara Gtgs; and vast holdgs LGBTQ pop culture.

Baker also served as a spy for the French durg World War II, passg along secrets she heard while performg for German Herich Ulrichs Ulrichs is regard by some as the pneer of the morn gay movement and the first person to publicly “e out.

” In fact, Volkmar Sigch, a leadg German scholar sexual science, scribed him as “the most cisive and fluential pneer of homosexual emancipatn … world history. He wrote pamphlets about beg gay Germany and, Augt 29, 1867, Ulrichs spoke Munich at the Congrs of Jurists to mand legal equal rights for all sexuali. Cárnas helped start the stggle agast gay prejudice Mexi and fought for equal rights for everyone, no matter their NkoliSimon Nkoli is seen by many as the central hero of the gay and lbian stggle South Ai.

A SEND ACT FOR THE DOUBLE HEAR, THE PNEER SQUARE GAY BAR THAT LNCHED A THOAND STORI

Five years later, Nkoli clared his HIV posive stat and began workg to stigmatize HIV/ NasimIfti Nasim was a gay Pakistani poet who moved to the Uned Stat to avoid persecutn for his sexualy. He was a -founr of the Mattache Society, the first staed gay rights group the Uned Stat, as well as the Radil Faeri, a loosely affiliated gay spirual movement.

It was found by yet another munist, David Thorstad, oime print of New York’s Gay Activists Alliance and member of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party.

As Timmons noted his bgraphy of Hay, the faery men gave themselv var neo-pagan nam nnected to Mother Earth and their view of Native-Amerin spirualy, ated wh a heapg top of gayns. “It is unclear who first ed the term two-spir  English, ” stat Wikipedia, notg “the volvement of non-Native Will Rose who, like his also non-Native mentor Harry Hay, is volved the hippie/unterculture gay men’s group, the Radil Faeri, a ‘non-Native muny that emulat Native spirualy’ and engag other forms of cultural appropriatn. Bull and Hasks helped found the groundbreakg stunt group at the Universy of Mae 1973 — then held the first Mae Gay Symposium 1974, which jump-started Mae’s LGBTQ+ rights stggle, lnchg much further ahead toward jtice than most other stat.

JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS

A photographic ntact sheet showg Steven Bull speakg at the first gay symposium put on by the Wild Ste Club at the Universy pf Mae 1974, is part of Bull’s papers hoed the Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversy’s LGBTQ+ llectn at the Universy of Southern Mae. A week before the Universy of Mae board of tste was to ci Wil Ste’s fate January 1974, the club issued a prs release about s tentn to hold the first Mae Gay Symposium April. The move passed — makg Mae the send state to pass such a party plank — spe a BDN edorial equatg gays and lbians wh felons, dg ers and draft dodgers.

LAKE BLUFF NSIRS FLYG GAY PRI FLAG ON VILLAGE FLAGPOLE; ‘WE N SEND THE RIGHT MSAGE, THAT WE ARE AN ACCEPTG ... MUNY’

“We secured a wrten mment om the head of the Mae Teachers Associatn that they would fend any teacher gone after solely for their homosexualy, ” Bull said. " Beyond her LGBTQ activism, DeLarverie also anized and performed at fundraisers for women who suffered om domtic vlence and their Jam Baldw (Photo by Ted Thai)The LIFE Picture Collectn/GettyJam Baldw (1924-1987)A wrer and social cric, Baldw is perhaps bt known for his 1955 llectn of says, "Not of a Native Son, " and his groundbreakg 1956 novel, "Gvanni's Room, " which picts them of homosexualy and bisexualy. Baldw spent a majory of his lerary and activist reer tg others about Black and queer inty, as he did durg his famo lecture tled “Race, Racism, and the Gay Communy” at a meetg of the New York chapter of Black and Whe Men Together (now known as Men of All Colors Together) and playwright Lorrae Hansberry her New York Cy apartment April Attie / Getty ImagLorrae Hansberry (1930-1965)Hansberry was an activist and playwright bt known for her groundbreakg play “A Rais the Sun, ” about a stgglg Black fay on Chigo’s South Si.

The inic work was then ma to a 1961 film starrg Sidney Poier and Ruby to “A Rais the Sun” fame, Hansberry — who never publicly acknowledged she was a lbian — joed lbian rights group Dghters of Bilis and ntributed letters about femism and homophobia to s magaze, “The Ladr, ” acrdg to LGBTQ historian Eric Marc, host of the “Makg Gay History” podst. Now 79, Miss Major, known to many simply as “Mama, ” ris Ltle Rock, Arkansas, where she ntu to be a vol Sprg's mayor Ron On, April 18, Khan / LA Tim via Getty ImagRon On (Born 1950)When On was elected mayor of Palm Sprgs, California 2003, he ma history by beg the first openly gay Ain Amerin man elected mayor of an Amerin cy. But for the award-wng gay poet Doty, textual analysis of the great Amerin bard required a personal analysis, which necsated this kd of spirual ntact.