Bucks County Communy College's Stand for Gay Rights Remembered

Contents:

• BUCKS GAY MEETUP
• BUCKS COUNTY COMMUNY COLLEGE RELLS ITS STUNTS’ 1968 HISTORIC SUPPORT OF GAY RIGHTS
• LGBTQ+ SUPPORT GROUPS BUCKS COUNTY, PA
• LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS LANGHORNE, PA
• LGBTQ+ PSYCHIATRISTS BUCKS COUNTY, PA
• LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS BUCKS COUNTY, PA
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• GAY PRI CALENDAR

BUCKS GAY MEETUP

The eclectic muny of New Hope is the gay-iendly centerpiece of Bucks County’s breathtakg untrysi.

The eclectic muny of New Hope is the gay-iendly centerpiece of Bucks County's breathtakg untrysi. Bucks County Communy College recently held a fom to discs s historic support for gay rights —now more broadly fed as LGBTQ+ rights. On May 9, 1968, Bucks stunts walked out of class over a nceled speaker set to advote for fair treatment of homosexuals by law enforcement officers and the jtice system.

BUCKS COUNTY COMMUNY COLLEGE RELLS ITS STUNTS’ 1968 HISTORIC SUPPORT OF GAY RIGHTS

“It shows evince of changg and nflictg attus about homosexualy the 1960s, pecially among young people.

LGBTQ+ SUPPORT GROUPS BUCKS COUNTY, PA

Is opened to all gay/gay iendly persons 21 years of age or olr acrdance wh the Bucks M. Associate membership is opened to all gay/gay iendly applints 21 years of age or olr and mt receive two-thirds affirmative vote of the active membership. PGN Bucks County Special SectnPublished on May 15, 2014AboutIn anticipatn of New Hop Pri, the Philalphia Gay News prents this special sectn spotlightg the Bucks County regn.

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LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS LANGHORNE, PA

”Studi show that spac perceived to be affirmg n save the liv of young LGBTQ people, who are at a higher risk of bullyg and Foster graduated om Pennridge High School 2005, and went to his school prom wh one of his bt female of the only out gay people his gra at the time, he said he faced bullyg and opposn om peers and admistrators to startg a Gay-Straight Alliance. M., Chapman Park hosts a film screeng of "Gay Chos Deep South".

LGBTQ+ PSYCHIATRISTS BUCKS COUNTY, PA

Stonewall pneer Mark Segal will discs Gay Pri. The 1969 police raid of the Stonewall Inn New York, which triggered rts for about three days the cy's Greenwich Village, beme a talyst for the gay rights movement. A year after the Stonewall rts, the natn's first Gay Pri march were held.

After word got around that Bucks County Communy College would be hostg a talk by a “practicg homosexual” on May 9, 1968, the school’s print, Charl E. The work is dog rearch for a travelg exhib about LGBTQ activism on Pennsylvania mp before and after fact that Bucks County College stunts rebelled after a gay activist — most of whom had likely never heard of him before — was barred om speakg at their picturque suburban mp was “pretty amazg, ” said a recent terview om his Southern California home, Ralph Sassi, who was stunt ernment print at Bucks County 1968, said a member of a new cultural activi group on mp sought his OK for the group’s plan to ve Dick Lesch, the New York chapter print of the Mattache Society, to speak. Lesch led Mattache, found as part of the fledglg “homophile” movement 1950, durg the ”sip-s” of 1966 that challenged regulatns that ma illegal for New York bars to serve openly gay people.

He died , who is not gay, was unfaiar wh Lesch May 1968. But he saw no reason a stunt anizatn uldn’t e a mostly stunt-fee-supported fund to pay a speaker to appear on mp for a talk billed as The Problems of the Homosexual Our Society.

LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS BUCKS COUNTY, PA

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E onto the mp and brg his moral y” were typil of the the hostily that epted before and after the aborted lecture also unrsr how bold was for the Bucks County stunts, few if any of whom appear to have been “out” the morn sense, to mand a chance to listen to what a homosexual had to say. A civil libertarian, anti-censorship mentaly had taken hold by then and, for the stunts, homosexualy was no longer so taboo and so beyond the pale that should fall outsi of First Amendment protectns.

”Lbians, gay men, and transgenr people “had been swept unr the g, but by the late Sixti the issue was g to the public nscns, ” said Daniel Brooks, the founr of New Hope Celebrat, an anizatn that promot LGBTQ bs as well as Pri Month activi and around New artsy tourist statn, 10 north of Newtown, has long had a vibrant gay prence. Even the 1965 s- at Dewey’s, the Center Cy rtrant that refed service to openly gay people, went largely unnoticed at the time, he the 52nd anniversary of the Stonewall rts approach, ’s important the Bucks County event be remembered, said Skiba, “bee ti what was gog on gay activism 1968 wh what was gog on wh antiwar, civil rights, and femist activism” on and off mp across the the Philly Queer Spac and Pa. The openg of the Bucks County Playhoe 1939 precipated a gay prence town.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

Philalphia area’s largt, olst, and most award wng publitn targeted to the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny. The Ma Le Youth Alliance (MYA) provis gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr qutng youth and straight alli, wh social tnal and supportive activi a nfintial, rpectful and safe environment. Planned Parenthood Keystone’s Rabow Room is Bucks County’s clive, empowerg, and brave space for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng+ youth, and their alli.

The Curve is a support program for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and qutng youth and their alli who are between the ag of 14 and 21, and is a safe, supportive, welg and fun environment for advocy and tnal and recreatnal activi. Common Roads provis tn, advocy, and programmg to empower lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and qutng (LGBTQ) youth throughout the Central Pennsylvania regn.

Project Silk is an HIV preventn and re iative geared toward our prry muny, black and latx young (13 -29 years) gay men and transgenr dividuals of lor the Ptsburgh regn.

GAY PRI CALENDAR

Dreams of Hope (DOH) has tablished self as Ptsburgh’s only arts-foced, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and allied (LGBTA) youth (13-21) anizatn. Haven Youth Group is one program of UUCLV which provis a safe, supportive environment for gay, lbian, bisexual, & transgenr qutng youth, while providg posive role mols and peer support, sponsorg social and recreatnal activi, and safe weekly meetgs for GLBT youth. The Washgton County Gay Straight Alliance, Inc.