Turkish police attacked and arrted hundreds at the Istanbul Pri March last weekend, a sweepg display of vlence and discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people, as well as journalists attemptg to report on the June 26 event. The number of arrts 2022 is three-tim more than the arrts durg the prev seven Istanbul Pri march bed. Thirty-four of those arrted were youth, acrdg to Kaos GL, a Turkish LGBT rights group.
Contents:
- PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
- US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
- IS POLICE BTALY A PROBLEM FOR THE GAY COMMUNY?
PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
The Stonewall Rts, also lled the Stonewall Uprisg, took place on June 28, 1969, New York Cy, after police raid the Stonewall Inn, a lol gay club. The raid sparked a rt among bar patrons and neighborhood rints as police hled employe and patrons out of the bar, leadg to six days of protts and vlent clash. The Stonewall Rts served as a talyst for the gay rights movement. * gay police brutality *
That tersectn is as old as the morn fight for LGTBQ rights, and perhaps no moment illtrat that as well as the movement’s most famo turng pot: the 1969 Stonewall Rts, the uprisg sparked by a police raid at a gay bar New York Cy’s Greenwich Village neighborhood, and the tone to which Pri Month is pegged. As they are today, members of the LGBTQ muny were disproportnately targeted by police durg the 1950s and 1960s, “the most homophobic perd Amerin history, ” says historian Hugh Ryan, thor of When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History. Donut shop that was a popular meetg place for transgenr and gay people, was the se of an uprisg agast the ntuo police harassment that the shop’s patrons endured.
Trans women of lor played a key role the Augt 1966 Compton Cafeteria Rts San Francis, and a police raid on the Black Cat tavern Los Angel on New Years’ Day 1967 rulted anized public protts agast police harassment of gay, trans and genr non-nformg people. For historian Ryan, the Haven Rt 1970, which took place at the Haven gay bar Greenwich Village, was also a landmark event and monstrat that there was a nsistency to the ancy beyond the sgular moment of Stonewall.
Oral histori reuntg the nights of Stonewall suggt that the women the prison chanted “Gay Power!
US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
The fact that several members of the Black Panther Party, cludg Angela Davis, Afeni Shakur and Joan Bird, had also spent time the prison speaks to the shared nnectns a broar stggle, Ryan says, as lks emerged between the Black Panther Party, the Gay Liberatn Front, radil lbians and the femist and women’s movements. It was after she saw the prison how the opprsn of gay people was nnected to the opprsn of mori that Afeni Shakur went on to anize a meetg between the Black Panther Party and the Gay Liberatn Front at Jane Fonda’s penthoe apartment on the Upper East si 1970. The morn LGBTQ civil rights movement was born out of police harassment and btaly agast a group of gay men, butch lbians and trans women of lor.
Nearly every LGBTQ person I know, regardls of age or inty has experienced some form, eher dismissive rpons to reports of hate crim to jt sual ments while on the street the Gayborhood or elsewhere. My own early experience wh police as a teenager the lol gay bars and clubs around 13th and Loct was ght wh harassment and vlence.
Gay men I have terviewed who have reported their experience wh hate crim attacks have disclosed abive and dismissive treatment by law enforcement that has ranged om sensive remarks to outright hostily and an attu that they brought the vlence on themselv. Senate seat next year, and who is one of only two out gay members of the Pennsylvania state assembly, tweeted, “It’s trmatizg to see so much Black pa.
IS POLICE BTALY A PROBLEM FOR THE GAY COMMUNY?
Gay and bisexual men are disproportnately reprented the prison populatn. More than 40 percent of women who are rcerated intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual, pared wh only 5.
” On a rooftop at the end of the day, after some drks, he lled home and told his father that he was gay. So I uld see the Herage of Pri para as this thg for whe gay men, mcly, glter. “Gay liberatn, ” she said, “meant revolutn.
” The monstrators left angry but clash between protters and police fillg social media, prsure rose on Herage of Pri to rce police volvement, cludg banng the Gay Officers Actn League, which routely receiv effive cheers durg the Pri march.