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Contents:

• THE RAYMOND BROSHEARS FIL PART 00005: THE GAY CSAR
• THE GAY CSAR (16 RULTS)
• THE GAY CSAR
• WHAT COM AFTER THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT? THE SAME THG THAT CAME BEFORE.
• HOW THE RELIG RIGHT MA SAME-SEX MARRIAGE A GAY RIGHTS CSA
• GAY CSARS (16 RULTS)

THE RAYMOND BROSHEARS FIL PART 00005: THE GAY CSAR

Her discharge om the ary over her homosexualy had turned her to an Tob/The New York Public LibraryPublished July 19, 2023Updated July 23, 2023Lilli Vcenz, who beme a gay rights activist the hhed, reprsive era before the Stonewall rebelln of 1969, when such a ncept srcely existed, makg a mark as a newspaper edor, documentary filmmaker and psychotherapist voted to L.

She was ath, at a re facily, was nfirmed by a niece, Julia Bo, who did not specify a Vcenz’s journey to promence the nascent gay rights movement of the mid-1960s began after a personal llisn wh tolerance.

In 1963, she was servg the Women’s Army Corps when a roommate outed her as gay, leadg to her discharge after only ne months took that rejectn as an opportuny to beg a fight agast jtice that would gui her for s. Vicenz beme, by most acunts, the first lbian to picket the Whe Hoe support of equal rights for gay people as a member of the Mattache Society of Washgton, an early gay rights prott — the first of s kd, acrdg to the Library of Congrs — and others that followed were small but brought visibily to a movement s fancy. “Be wh gay people, help the movement, help unmask the li beg told about , rrect the notn of homosexualy as a sickns and prent as is, a betiful way to love.

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In 1969, she and another activist, Nancy Tucker, spun off a newspaper of their own, The Gay Bla, which beme the Washgton Bla, the untry’s olst L. Vcenz beme the first out lbian to appear on the ver of a natnal gay magaze, The Ladr, a publitn produced by the untry’s first lbian-rights group, the Dghters of Bilis, acrdg to a retrospective on her life and reer by Lillian Farman, a historian of lbian and gay her scbbed, all-Amerin looks, Dr. Vcenz looked like “every mother’s dream dghter, ” as Barbara Gtgs, The Ladr’s edor, put Vcenz also ntributed to the e on the other si of a mera, makg two 16-limeter films that were later hailed as signifint artifacts of the early gay rights first, tled “The Send-Largt Mory, ” documents a Mattache Society prott ont of Inpennce Hall Philalphia on July 4, morn ey, the black-and-whe film, roughly seven mut, seems anythg but seismic.

“The whole notn of gay people publicly exprsg their sentiments that fashn was beyond nceptualizatn until we started dog , ” the Mattache Society’s -founr, Frankl E. ”Her send film, “Gay and Proud, ” documented the Christopher Street Liberatn Day Para 1970, a memoratn of the first anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg Manhattan.

The uprisg, after a police raid at Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Greenwich Village, was a turng pot the gay rights movement. “Gay and Proud” shows a much larger, and shaggier, gatherg of protters takg a more ant stance the para, chantg fiantly and wavg plards wh msag like “I am a lbian and I am betiful. Vcenz’s films “gave visual documentatn of the astonishg distance that the gay movement had traveled between 1968 and 1970.

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“I fd a privilege to work wh gay people, ” she PrsLilli Marie Vcenz was born Hamburg, Germany, on Sept. J., Vcenz regnized her sexualy early on, she said a 2008 terview, and “ beme paful after a while to realize that I was gay and I didn’t know anyone else who was gay.

But after a stt as an edor the book publishg dtry, she cid to jo the Army, part bee she had heard was “a hotbed of gay people, ” acrdg to Ms.

Farman’s putative hotbed, however, had a policy banng gay people om service, and she was thrown out while trag as a nropsychiatric technician at the Walter Reed ary hospal the 1970s, Dr. Vcenz ran a weekly discsn ssn lled the Gay Women’s Open Hoe, which functned as a marketplace of ias and sanctuary of sorts for lbians the Washgton area. “I fd a privilege to work wh gay people who are, general, so much more urageo, novative and open to new ias than the average straight person, ” she told Gay Today.

WHAT COM AFTER THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT? THE SAME THG THAT CAME BEFORE.

It was Washgton — not Bethda, Md., where is we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 20 of the New York edn wh the headle: Lilli Vcenz, a Trailblazer the Gay Rights Movement, Di at 85.

Raymond Broshears found the San Francis branch of the Gay Activists Alliance and that same year helped anize the cy’s first Gay Pri para. Due to a disagreement wh fellow Gay Pri para anizers, the followg year (1973) Broshears staged his own gay pri event petn wh the official one, which due urse led to a mi-schism wh the San Francis gay rights muny.

HOW THE RELIG RIGHT MA SAME-SEX MARRIAGE A GAY RIGHTS CSA

Other volunteer efforts clud an annual Christmas event he anized for patients at Fort Miley Hospal lled the “Gay U. To publicize his polil activism, Broshears started a newsletter lled The Gay Csar and was ntually firg off letters to polil figur of the era—om Harvey Milk to Dianne Feste to Gee Mosne—and damn near anybody else who me to promence durg the late-60s and 70s San Francis polil scene. Broshears enjoyed his fifteen mut of fame when he formed a group lled the Lavenr Panthers rponse to gay bashg cints that occurred San Francis durg the early-70s.

This led to a feature story the October 8, 1973 issue of TIME Magaze scribg the Lavenr Panthers as a “stiff-wristed team of gay vigilant… The basic band numbers 21 homosexuals, cludg two lbians who are reputedly the tought hombr the lot. “A former Goln Gate Bs Associatn official told Bay Area Reporter that many Gay bs felt they were beg extorted by Broshears bee they would not advertise his newspaper.

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“Lol Gay bs were regularly affected by Broshears’ behd the scen reportg to the police and cy agenci. Gay bars, bath ho, sex clubs, adult book stor and most recently vio ssette stor were nstantly threatened by Broshears’ challeng to their perms and licens. Many Gay activists never fave Broshears for this act bee rulted the arrt of the popular Jack Campbell, an official of the Club Baths cha and a major fancial supporter of Gay rights over many years…”.

Inially, Sipple was hopg his new found fame would blow over a day or two; that he’d simply be treated to a round of drks at a lol tavern and be done wh all the hoo-hah, but a uple days after the story broke, proment San Francis Chronicle lumnist Herb Caen received a msage on his answerg mache om none other than Harvey Milk, who rmed him that Sipple was an active member of the San Francis gay muny. This was durg the timeame when Milk, wh great gto, was enuragg fellow gays to e out of their rpective closets.

This, appears, was the ma motivatn why Milk ntacted Caen, along wh an agenda to place stori the media that portrayed the gay muny a more posive light. Although Sipple was a guy who clearly wanted to stay the closet to a certa extent, the gay activist movement of the early 1970s swept up everyone s path, and unfortunately for Sipple, he got ught up the shiftg wds of a generatnal change he didn’t have the emotnal tools to al wh.