Harry Hay, Amerin gay rights activist who believed that homosexuals should see themselv as an opprsed mory entled to equal rights. He acted on his nvictns and large measure prompted the dramatic chang the stat of homosexuals that took place the U.S. the send half of the 20th century.
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- US NAVY LNCH SHIP NAMED FOR GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST HARVEY MILK
- HOW RSIAN GAY ACTIVISTS OUTWTED THE SECRET POLICE
US NAVY LNCH SHIP NAMED FOR GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST HARVEY MILK
A Navy ship named for gay rights activist Harvey Milk, who was ma to rign om the force bee of his sexual orientatn, was lnched San Diego Saturday. * gay activist child *
The term “transgenr” wasn’t monly ed Marsha’s lifetime, but she intified as a “transvte, ” gay and a drag queen and ed she/her pronouns. The clash wh the New York police marked a turng pot for the gay liberatn movement the US and spired Pri march around the world today.
Johnson worked as an activist participatg monstratns and march as part of the Gay Liberatn Front, which formed the wake of Stonewall. Harvey Milk was one of the first openly gay policians elected to office the Uned Stat, and the first openly gay official elected California. “We want gays to reprent gays, ” Milk told the San Francis Examer 1977, and his posn as an LGBTQ public official helped brg the muny’s issu to promence.
While servg as a cy supervisor, he troduced legislatn to protect the gay muny, cludg a gay rights ordance 1978 to ban discrimatn agast LGBTQ hog or employment.
HOW RSIAN GAY ACTIVISTS OUTWTED THE SECRET POLICE
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He and other activists also succeed strikg down Proposn 6, which would have mandated the firg of any gay or lbian teachers California. He was one of the first to sound the alarm for the HIV/AIDS crisis 1981 when the New York Tim wrote about a rare type of “ncer” affectg gay men. Kramer -found the advocy groups GMHC (Gay Men’s Health Crisis) and ACT UP (AIDS Coaln to Unleash Power), which ed the inic SILENCE = DEATH logo that beme a symbol for the AIDS crisis.
His ntributns to the LGBTQ muny boil down to the impact he ma as a pneer drag, and how “Drag Race” drastilly changed the way lns of Amerins view — and appreciate — a key facet of gay culture. “As long as gay people don’t have their rights all across Ameri, there’s no reason for celebratn, ” she once said.