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A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
It took longer for women, people of lor and genr-nonnformg dividuals to get their regnn of Pri Month and the anti-racism protts that have swept the Uned Stat, we asked historians and scholars which Black lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer figur they would like to see uplifted and celebrated. ‘Black lbian in’Mabel Hampton, a Black lbian activist, was active durg the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, before later gog on to participate the first natnal gay and lbian march on Washgton 1979. Today, those rerds are hoed the Lbian Herstory Archiv New York, and Hartman said they are a ttament to an oft-repeated quote om historian Henry Louis Gat that the Harlem Renaissance was “surely as gay as was Black.
”‘First Black woman to monstrate for gay rights’Ernte Eppenger, known as Ernte Eckste her activism work, was stmental lobbyg gay activists to adopt the same tactics of the civil rights movement.
Ernte Eckste Tob Lahe / Mancripts and Archiv Divisn, The New York Public Library“Before Ernte, the Dghters of Bilis did not want to march for gay rights, ” Cervi said. Although early gay rights lears like Barbara Gtgs and Frank Kameny were prent at many of the monstratns, Eppenger was the only person of lor. The srcy of Black fac ma Eppenger the “first Black woman to monstrate for gay rights, ” but Cervi said that racial monoculture also me wh a st.