Durg Prohibn, gay nightlife and culture reached new heights—at least temporarily.
Contents:
- WHAT WAS LIKE TO BE GAY 1944 -- AND OTHER HISTORIC LSONS A USC ARCHIVE
- THE UNSPOKEN PAST: ATLANTA LBIAN AND GAY HISTORY
- HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
- "COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS
- GAY RIGHTS
WHAT WAS LIKE TO BE GAY 1944 -- AND OTHER HISTORIC LSONS A USC ARCHIVE
1940s timele of major events LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr) rights history, cludg homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * gay history 1940s *
Servg openly ary be homosexuals the policy is don't ask don't tell banned for transgenrsAugt 15LGBT employment discrimatn be sexual orientatn and genr discrimatn be hog discrimatn be sexual orientatn and genr employment discrimatn be sexual orientatn and genr discrimatn be illegal some for genr inty and hog discrimatn be sexual orientatn and genr employment discrimatn be sexual orientatn and genr discrimatn be hog discrimatn be sexual orientatn and genr employment discrimatn be sexual orientatn and genr discrimatn be discrimatn be illegal some for genr inty and hog discrimatn be sexual orientatn and genr employment discrimatn be sexual orientatn and genr all discrimatn be employment discrimatn be for genr inty and hog discrimatn be for genr inty and discrimatn be illegal some genr inty and hog discrimatn be sexual orientatn and genr discrimatn protectn pendg employment discrimatn be sexual orientatn and genr inty. Homosexual activy be illegal (ath penalty as punishment) 2011, The Korea Tim, a South Korean publitn, reported that North Korea had executed a lbian uple, a North Korean woman and Japane woman, for beg fluenced by palism and "brgg rptn of public morals". [3]Augt 15LGBT discrimatn be illegal some are some LGBT anti-discrimatn protectns lol jurisdictns, but natnal law don't protect agast discrimatn based on sexual orientatn or genr marriage be not has been proposals to legalize gay marriage, but none have passed as of May 14Equal age of nsent be age of nsent Israel is 16 for male-male, female-female, and male-female sex.
January 1Homosexual activy be Swiss Penal Co troduced 1942 allowed same sex acts between adults (above 20 years old), but punished homosexual terurse wh people between 16 and 20 years old (while allowg heterosexual acts)1941September 16Same-sex marriage be the Shah's le, the last monarch of the Pahlavi dynasty, homosexualy was crimalised, though was mostly tolerated even to the pot of allowg news verage of a mock same-sex weddg between two men.
THE UNSPOKEN PAST: ATLANTA LBIAN AND GAY HISTORY
* gay history 1940s *
January 1Servg openly ary be Internatnal Lbian and Gay Associatn stat that homosexuals are not allowed to serve the Kenya Defence Forc, however, 's unclear if this is a wrten law and if so, when this law was passed. 1940December 7Equal age of nsent be of nsent = 14 years oldAugt 12Homosexual activy be Icelandic parliament crimaliz homosexualy, remov the provisn of the law that ma homosexualy 28Homosexual activy be illegal (ath penalty as punishment). Belgium was unr German occupatn durg World War II and th Paragraph 175 was 15Homosexual activy be illegal (imprisonment as punishment) the German occupatn of the Netherlands durg World War II homosexualy was crimalized by Paragraph 175.
HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
Gay and Lbian soldiers faced extraordary discrimatn durg World War II. Most found new muni of people and thrived spe the opprsn. Disver the film Comg Out Unr Fire that shar their story. * gay history 1940s *
”The ONE archive is believed to be the world’s largt llectn of LGBT artifacts, cludg personal ems om photo albums and letters to the LGBT rights movement has ma tremendo stris recent years, gay history is ltle known bee was kept out of the history books for so long, said Joseph Hawks, director of the archivists are workg wh the Los Angel Unified School District and the Los Angel LGBT Center to velop LGBT-clive history lsons that will be rporated to the curriculum the g months to ply wh the FAIR Edutn Act, a state law passed law, the first of s kd the natn, requir public schools to teach about the historic ntributns of LGBT people. ”::Among the archive’s more than 2 ln ems hoed a former USC aterny hoe are matchbooks om gay bars, polil buttons, erotic patgs and discreetly labeled “addrs books” listg gay-iendly ’s a talog for an at-home electroshock therapy k ed to “rerce sex preference” by shockg the wearer if he or she reacted posively to imag of members of the same sex.
"COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS
The Gale Archiv of Sexualy and Genr nta a plethora of rourc supportg LGBT history rearch. Click to explore gay and lbian history. * gay history 1940s *
RFD, a magaze for ral gay men, ran articl the 1970s about how to build your own b and letters om rears who loved the untry life but were terribly of the archiv’ newt llectns ntas the personal wrgs and letters of Lisa Ben (a psdonym for “lbian”), who 1947 created Vice Versa: Ameri’s Gayt Magaze for lbians.
The people are iendly, and we have always been on the ont of LGBTQ+ rights and fightg for eedom to be out and the 1950s, there was no nng water and no electricy, but gay men and women were happy to be roughg bee they were ee to be themselv. If you were gay the cy, you went to the dark and dgy bars, which were n by the Mafia, and at any time uld be raid by the police and you uld be Cherry Grove, the police would leave on the last ferry to the maland at midnight, allowg same-sex dancg and open exprsns of affectn to occur the lol bars and rtrants. Our goal is to have the rmatn piled and available when we wele Amerin Historil Associatn members and members of the Commtee on Lbian and Gay History to a receptn at the Auburn Avenue Rearch Library on Ain Amerin Culture and History on January 6, 2007, om 5:30–7:30 p.
GAY RIGHTS
The Begngs of a New Gay World“In the late 19th century, there was an creasgly visible prence of genr-non-nformg men who were engaged sexual relatnships wh other men major Amerin ci, ” says Chad Heap, a profsor of Amerin Studi at Gee Washgton Universy and the thor of Slummg: Sexual and Racial Enunters Amerin Nightlife, 1885-1940.
By the 1920s, gay men had tablished a prence Harlem and the bohemian mec of Greenwich Village (as well as the seedier environs of Tim Square), and the cy’s first lbian enclav had appeared Harlem and the Village. ”At the same time, lbian and gay characters were beg featured a slew of popular “pulp” novels, songs and on Broadway stag (cludg the ntroversial 1926 play The Captive) and Hollywood—at least prr to 1934, when the motn picture dtry began enforcg censorship guil, known as the Hays Co. ” By the post-World War II era, a larger cultural shift toward earlier marriage and suburban livg, the advent of TV and the anti-homosexualy csas champned by Joseph McCarthy would help ph the flowerg of gay culture reprented by the Pansy Craze firmly to the natn’s rear-view mirror.
The 1994 documentary Comg Out Unr Fire giv voice to the experienc of thoands of gay and lbian servicemembers who joed the ary durg World War II, a story that is largely ignored by historians and mms across the untry. Bona = good, dolly = pretty, eke (ef) = face, lalli = legs, naff = bbish/poor, nanty = no/nothg, ogle = look/eye, omi = man, omipalone = gay man, palone = woman, riah = hair, varda = seeRound the Horne, Sunday 7 March 1965, 14. Negative portrayals of the LGBT+ muny on televisn are wispread at this time, but radil for s day, toward the end of this episo of Steptoe and Son a gay police officer is troduced, whout all the ual stereotyped characterisatns.