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Contents:
- REFLECTG ON MASSACHETTS' HISTORIC GAY RIGHTS LG, 15 YEARS LATER: ANALYSIS
- HOW PTOWN GOT SO GAY, GAY, GAY
- GAY RIGHTS
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- 15 YEARS LATER, GAY UPLE RELLS THEIR ROLE MASSACHETTS' HISTORIC MARRIAGE LG
- HOW A NEW ENGLAND BEACH TOWN CHANGED THE COURSE OF GAY HISTORY
- MY APARTMENT BUILDG ONCE HOED ONE OF THE OLST GAY CLUBS IN THE STATE
REFLECTG ON MASSACHETTS' HISTORIC GAY RIGHTS LG, 15 YEARS LATER: ANALYSIS
From the start of the LGBTQ rights movement the 1970s, Massachetts has been a pneer supportg the LGBTQ muny. Wh s gay-beach mec Pr ... * massachusetts gay history *
1978: A group of people led by gay attorney John Ward meets the basement of the Old Wt Church and found GLAD (Gay & Lbian Advot and Defenrs), which is now the pneerg group of lawyers who reprent gay and lbian terts urtPhoto Cred: Charl Dixon, Boston Globe Staff1979: What is now the Fay Equaly Council is formed after a group of gay fathers got together and formed the Gay Fathers Coaln.
1988: A small group of young people wh gay and lbian parents together while their parents are attendg an annual nference sponsored by the Gay and Lbian Parents Coaln Internatnal (GLPCI – now known as Fay Equaly Council). A small group of protters was drowned out by an exuberant crowd of gay activists and cur lols who had gathered unr the brightly l ancient bell tower Central Square to wns 15 years’ remove om that moment, ’s difficult to remember how uncerta all a few months earlier, San Francis Mayor Gav Newsom had orred that marriage licens be issued to gay upl – only to have the California Supreme Court later validate them and the marriag that had been the Whe Hoe, Print Gee W. Romney would not make easy for gay upl; among other burecratic obstacl, he voked a 90-year-old state law that had been wrten to block terracial marriage to prevent same-sex upl om other stat om g to the Bay State to men wearg wa outsi Town Hall, where same-sex upl om across the untry gathered May 17, 2004, Provcetown, Mass.
HOW PTOWN GOT SO GAY, GAY, GAY
Ptown wasn't always gay, but was pretty wild back the day. So wild, the rints weren't allowed to own land for over 150 years. * massachusetts gay history *
Allowg gay upl to marry wasn’t a mastream posn eher polil party back John Kerry – then a senator om Massachetts, and the Democratic printial nomee 2004 – opposed gay marriage throughout his mpaign, favorg civil unns stead, what was viewed as a progrsive posn at the time. I am not favor of gay marriage, ” Obama said November 2008 – on the eve of his would take another four years -- and fully eight years after weddg bells first chimed for same-sex upl Massachetts -- before Bin pronounced himself fortable wh gay marriage. Obama – then nng for reelectn – followed su, acknowledgg an “evolutn” on the issue an terview wh ABC News’ Rob Roberts that ma him the first print to support gay upl fill out qutns about rincy on their applitn forms as they apply for marriage licens at the Cy Clerk's office Northampton, Mass., May 17, Jimenez/Getty Imag, FILEEven at that time, 2012, gay marriage was legal only six stat pl the District of Columbia.
The landmark Supreme Court se tablishg a fundamental right to marry me 2015 – effectively endg a polil bate ma more urgent on those urthoe steps 11 years, 2019, an openly gay printial ndidate has been featured on the ver of Time magaze alongsi his hband. The Republin print he might n agast said, jt this week, he thks “’s great” that a married gay man is a pure historil cince, May 2004 Pete Buttigieg was an unrgrad at Harvard – the very cy, Cambridge, where the midnight marriage licens were issued. Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter.
Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group.
GAY RIGHTS
The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage. * massachusetts gay history *
”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze. Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Startg as a ernor's missn 1992, the Commissn on Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer and Qutng Youth today supports queer stunts both wh and outsi of schools. * massachusetts gay history *
That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D. ”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue. They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn.
" This sign was wrten by the Mattache Society–an early anizatn dited to fightg for gay reportg the events, The New York Daily News rorted to homophobic slurs s tailed verage, nng the headle: “Homo Nt Raid, Queen Be Are Stgg Mad. 1 / 12: NY Daily News Archive/Getty ImagChristopher Street Liberatn Day Shortly after the Stonewall uprisg, members of the Mattache Society spl off to form the Gay Liberatn Front, a radil group that lnched public monstratns, protts and nontatns wh polil officials. Siar groups followed, cludg the Gay Activists Alliance, Radilbians, and Street Transvt Actn Revolutnari (STAR) 1970, at the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, New York Cy muny members marched through lol streets memoratn of the event.
Addnally, several openly LGBTQ dividuals secured public office posns: Kathy Kozachenko won a seat to the Ann Harbor, Michigan, Cy Council 1974, beg the first out Amerin to be elected to public Milk, who mpaigned on a pro-gay rights platform, beme the San Francis cy supervisor 1978, beg the first openly gay man elected to a polil office asked Gilbert Baker, an artist and gay rights activist, to create an emblem that reprents the movement and would be seen as a symbol of pri. In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn published a report about five prevly healthy homosexual men beg fected wh a rare type of 1984, rearchers had intified the e of AIDS—the human immunoficiency vis, or HIV—and the Food and Dg Admistratn licensed the first mercial blood tt for HIV 1985.
15 YEARS LATER, GAY UPLE RELLS THEIR ROLE MASSACHETTS' HISTORIC MARRIAGE LG
A new report om Boston Inditors and the Fenway Instute found people who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, or somethg else face hardships and discrimatn the Bay State. * massachusetts gay history *
But after failg to garner enough support for such an open policy, Print Clton 1993 passed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy, which allowed gay men and women to serve the ary as long as they kept their sexualy a rights advot cried the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, as did ltle to stop people om beg discharged on the grounds of their 2011, Print Obama fulfilled a mpaign promise to repeal DADT; by that time, more than 12, 000 officers had been discharged om the ary unr DADT for refg to hi their sexualy. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was officially repealed on September 20, Marriage and Beyond In 1992, the District of Columbia passed a law that allowed gay and lbian upl to register as domtic partners, grantg them some of the rights of marriage (the cy of San Francis passed a siar ordance three years prr and California would later extend those rights to the entire state 1999) 1993, the hight urt Hawaii led that a ban on gay marriage may go agast the state’s nstutn. The law prevented the ernment om grantg feral marriage benefs to same-sex upl and allowed stat to refe to regnize same-sex marriage certifit om other marriage rights backtracked, gay rights advot sred other victori.
HOW A NEW ENGLAND BEACH TOWN CHANGED THE COURSE OF GAY HISTORY
In 1994, a new anti-hate-crime law allowed judg to impose harsher sentenc if a crime was motivated by a victim’s sexual Matthew Shepard ActCourty of the Matthew Shepard FoundatnMatthew Shepard, who was btally killed a hate crime 2003, gay rights proponents had another b of happy news: the U. Gay rights proponents mt also ntent wh an creasg number of “relig liberty” state laws, which allow bs to ny service to LGBTQ dividuals due to relig beliefs, as well as “bathroom laws” that prevent transgenr dividuals om g public bathrooms that don’t rrpond to their sex at birth. Gay Marriage Legalized Massachetts was the first state to legalize gay marriage, and the first legal same-sex marriage was performed on May 17, 2004—a day when seventy-seven other upl across the state also tied the knot.
Conservative Jtice Anthony Kennedy sid wh Jtic Ruth Bar Gsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan favor of same-sex marriage rights, ultimately makg gay marriage legal across the natn on June 2015. However, throughout 150 years of homosexual social movements (roughly om the 1870s to today), lears and anizers stggled to addrs the very different ncerns and inty issu of gay men, women intifyg as lbians, and others intifyg as genr variant or nonbary. Such eyewns acunts the era before other media were of urse riddled wh the bias of the (often) Wtern or Whe observer, and add to beliefs that homosexual practic were other, foreign, savage, a medil issue, or evince of a lower racial hierarchy.
MY APARTMENT BUILDG ONCE HOED ONE OF THE OLST GAY CLUBS IN THE STATE
The European powers enforced their own crimal s agast what was lled sodomy the New World: the first known se of homosexual activy receivg a ath sentence North Ameri occurred 1566, when the Spanish executed a Frenchman Florida.
Biblil terpretatn ma illegal for a woman to wear pants or a man to adopt female drs, and sensatnalized public trials warned agast “viants” but also ma such martyrs and hero popular: Joan of Arc is one example, and the chillg origs of the word “faggot” clu a stick of wood ed public burngs of gay men. ” In Wtern history, we fd ltle formal study of what was later lled homosexualy before the 19th century, beyond medil texts intifyg women wh large cloris as “tribas” and severe punishment s for male homosexual acts. Their wrgs were sympathetic to the ncept of a homosexual or bisexual orientatn occurrg naturally an intifiable segment of humankd, but the wrgs of Krafft-Ebg and Ellis also labeled a “third sex” generate and abnormal.