Homophobia media and psychiatry: In the 1960s, liberal stutns did no favors for gays.

Contents:

• PNEERG PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY LIFE THE 1960S
• BEG GAY THE 60S - A BEYOND REASON
• RESISTANCE! HOW UNRGROUND GAY LIFE THRIVED THE 1950S
• BARBARA GTGS HELPS LEAD FIRST 'ANNUAL REMR' PROTTSGGS WAS AN ACTIVIST BOTH THE PRE-STONEWALL HOMOPHILE MOVEMENT OF THE 50S AND 60S AND THE POST-STONEWALL GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT. SHE ANIZED THE NEW YORK CHAPTER OF THE DGHTERS OF BILIS AND, 1965 – ALONG WH FRANK KAMENY – GTGS WAS STMENTAL LEADG THE “ANNUAL REMR” PICKETS, WHICH WERE SOME OF THE VERY FIRST PRO-LGBTQ+ PROTTS VISIBLE TO THE AMERIN PUBLIC. ONE RNERSTONE OF HER WORK CLUD PRSURG THE AMERIN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATN TO CLASSIFY HOMOSEXUALY AS A MENTAL DISORR. FOR THREE NSECUTIVE YEARS BEGNG 1970, GTGS ANIZED PROTTS, STORMED TO, AND PARTICIPATED THE ASSOCIATN’S ANNUAL MEETG. IN 1972, GTGS ANIZED A PANEL ON HOMOSEXUALY ALONG WH AN ANONYMO PSYCHIATRIST WHO WAS MASKED AND ED A VOICE MODULATOR. FALLY 1973, THE ASSOCIATN ANNOUNCED S REMOVAL OF THE CLASSIFITN AND VED GTGS TO THE MEETG. ‍COMPTON’S CAFETERIA RT CATALYZ TRANS COMMUNY POWER IN SAN FRANCIS
• WHEN PSYCHIATRY AND THE MEDIA COLLUD AGAST THE GAYS
• GAY RIGHTS

PNEERG PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY LIFE THE 1960S

“I was 19, vulnerable, young and puttg my own inty together, ” says photographer Anthony Friedk when reflectg on his first project, The Gay Essay, which documents gay culture Los Angel and San Francis between 1969-1972. What started, as a self-assigned project for a young photographer growg up Hollywood has now bee one of the most thentic portras of gay life Ameri om this perd.

BEG GAY THE 60S - A BEYOND REASON

But The Gay Essay really began while he explored the Los Angel Gay Communy Servic Center where he met Morris Kight and Don Kilhefner, two men who ran the programs there and found the Gay Liberatn Front Los Angel 1969 where they mobilized the muny agast the LAPD’s harassment of homosexuals. “In The Gay Essay I wanted to celebrate the gays that were livg openly, ” pecially at a time, the early days of the gay movement, followg the Stonewall rts. ” In 2014, The Gay Essay was first shown s entirety at the De Young Mm San Francis and was published as a book by the Fe Arts Mm of San Francis and Yale Universy Prs.

RESISTANCE! HOW UNRGROUND GAY LIFE THRIVED THE 1950S

“Everythg I love about photography is the gay say: the sense of the event, pturg the soul of the people, the journey, the procs, the unknowns, ” he says. Life Perth the 1960s and 70s was a very different experience to what is today for a young gay man Bce Tapper, who is now his 70s, said the persecutn of gay people days gone by was Tapper says the 60s was a difficult perd for gay men Perth. Homosexualy was a crime Wtern Atralia until was crimalised 1989 and even then, crimalisatn legislatn only passed wh stipulatns discrimatg agast gay laws set the age of nsent for men havg sex wh men at 21 years of age, ntrast to 16 years for the rt of the populatn, and ma illegal to promote or enurage homosexual legislatn did not fe what would be nsired "enuragement" or "promotn" which left the law open to different Tapper said while he tried not to let discrimatn get to him, the existence of the laws ma life difficult for gay said for many, the fact that homosexualy was a crime harmed gay men's self image.

"He also remembers the regular raids at a bar popular wh the gay muny the Tapper said police would routely orr everyone out of The Roo on the Roof Fremantle, fill a police wagon wh the most "gay" lookg men and keep them the lockup overnight for beg dnk and also relled tim when he was sgled out for beg of those was a day had been hangg around at the area known as "the beat" the cy near the Esplana between Barrack Street and William Street.

BARBARA GTGS HELPS LEAD FIRST 'ANNUAL REMR' PROTTSGGS WAS AN ACTIVIST BOTH THE PRE-STONEWALL HOMOPHILE MOVEMENT OF THE 50S AND 60S AND THE POST-STONEWALL GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT. SHE ANIZED THE NEW YORK CHAPTER OF THE DGHTERS OF BILIS AND, 1965 – ALONG WH FRANK KAMENY – GTGS WAS STMENTAL LEADG THE “ANNUAL REMR” PICKETS, WHICH WERE SOME OF THE VERY FIRST PRO-LGBTQ+ PROTTS VISIBLE TO THE AMERIN PUBLIC. ONE RNERSTONE OF HER WORK CLUD PRSURG THE AMERIN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATN TO CLASSIFY HOMOSEXUALY AS A MENTAL DISORR. FOR THREE NSECUTIVE YEARS BEGNG 1970, GTGS ANIZED PROTTS, STORMED TO, AND PARTICIPATED THE ASSOCIATN’S ANNUAL MEETG. IN 1972, GTGS ANIZED A PANEL ON HOMOSEXUALY ALONG WH AN ANONYMO PSYCHIATRIST WHO WAS MASKED AND ED A VOICE MODULATOR. FALLY 1973, THE ASSOCIATN ANNOUNCED S REMOVAL OF THE CLASSIFITN AND VED GTGS TO THE MEETG. ‍COMPTON’S CAFETERIA RT CATALYZ TRANS COMMUNY POWER IN SAN FRANCIS

"He asked whether he would fd vasele or baby powr, as if this might prove somethg, " he saidMr Tapper said the tective told him "I'm gog to put you the homosexualy book", somethg he had never heard of before.

It was there that Vermazen first heard discsn of same-sex marriage—an outrageo thought at the time—and the first time he met the late Sheldon Anlson, the Universy of California’s first openly gay regent.

WHEN PSYCHIATRY AND THE MEDIA COLLUD AGAST THE GAYS

Given the tremendo prsur to rist or hi beg gay, lbian, or transgenr those years, would be easy to thk that LGBTQ life disappeared, or was a miserable existence. The highpot of the Boston gay social season was the annual Bex Arts Ball; was the one night when the police let anythg happen on the dance floor and people me om as far away as Chigo to be part of the fun.

GAY RIGHTS

Barbara Gtgs Helps Lead First 'Annual Remr' ProttsGgs was an activist both the pre-Stonewall homophile movement of the 50s and 60s and the post-Stonewall gay liberatn movement.