A very LGBTQ : Gay marriage, trans rights and a 'rabow wave'

Contents:

• THE RT THAT CHANGED AMERI'S GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT FOREVER
• A VERY LGBTQ : GAY MARRIAGE, TRANS RIGHTS AND A 'RABOW WAVE'
• GAY PRI MARCH US MARK 50 YEARS OF MORN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• STONEWALL RTS: 50 YEARS ON OM THE RTS THAT CHANGED GAY RIGHTS HISTORY
• TIMELE: KEY MOMENTS FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
• STONEWALL AND THE MOB: THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• 50 YEARS LATER: HOW NYC'S STONEWALL RTS SPARKED THE MORN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• LET IT ROAR: HOW STONEWALL SPARKED A GAY RIGHTS REVOLUTN

THE RT THAT CHANGED AMERI'S GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT FOREVER

On a hot and humid summer’s eveng New York Cy 1969, the tranquily of a small park Queens was disturbed by jarrg sounds of sawg and choppg and the thump of tre topplg to the rints were angry that gay men were meetg the park at night unr a lovers’ lane of tre. They went home, grabbed saws and ax, and on that sticky summer eveng, unr the approvg eye of lol police, they chopped down all the strange cint was one of the more surreal maniftatns of a untry that June 1969 remaed trapped homophobia’s grip.

By then Greenwich Village, a New York neighborhood wh a rich history of toleratg sexual diversy, had bee Ameri’s pre-ement LGBT statn, home to probably the largt populatn of gay and lbian people the flocked here search of pannship, love and secury, though even the Village safety was not guaranteed. New York police revered a body om the Hudson River April 1969, ncludg that the young man had been strangled before beg dumped the water, a victim of the “dock scene” – probably the most dangero gay meetg place the Lanigan-Schmidt, an artist, his apartment Manhattan, New York. She herself was attacked on the street by a homophobic man and given two black ey, though she wanted the Guardian to know that she socked him right back and later took up martial Fouratt, an actor and 1960s radil who early 1969 moved to the Village apartment which he still liv today, rells the ternal bifurtn that many felt as a rult of havg to supprs their te selv.

A VERY LGBTQ : GAY MARRIAGE, TRANS RIGHTS AND A 'RABOW WAVE'

It wasn’t illegal to serve alhol to homosexuals 1969 but that didn’t stop New York thori om whholdg licens om gay bars by g a clse liquor laws that prohibed “disorrly” Fouratt, an actor and 60s radil, the Wt Village.

Photograph: Gnrlo Valente/The GuardianAt a time when the re inty of gay and lbian people was universally nied, up to 350 gay men, together wh a few “sre queens”, transgenr dividuals and lbians uld cram together and slow dance to the sounds of Motown blastg om a je box.

GAY PRI MARCH US MARK 50 YEARS OF MORN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Cop rs were “bubble gum mach”, police officers “Lilly Law”, “Betty Badge”, “Patty Pig” or “Della wh the Blue Drs On” of the hated raids on gay bars were led by the manr of the NYPD vice squad, Deputy Inspector Seymour Pe.

As David Carter, thor of the five history of the rebelln, Stonewall: The Rts That Sparked the Gay Revolutn, put an terview wh the Guardian: “You have the natn’s largt gay ghetto the Village, you have the natn’s largt gay club the Stonewall, you have the most severe police reprsn the history of the untry – and therefore you have the settg for what was about to e.

STONEWALL RTS: 50 YEARS ON OM THE RTS THAT CHANGED GAY RIGHTS HISTORY

All the anim endured by gays and lbians – the arrts, the workplace firgs, the random vlence, the tree fellg – was Rter was one of those young trans women (though she didn’t ll herself that 1969) who had to learn to be exceptnally reful public.

TIMELE: KEY MOMENTS FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS

Before he died 2010, Pe nfsed that he had never been more ightened – and this the man who wrote the US army’s official manual for hand-to-hand bat the send world ’s terror spoke to a new assertivens, even aggrsn, on the part of gay men and women that would bee a ccial foundatn stone of Stonewall’s legacy.

STONEWALL AND THE MOB: THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

” The cry went up, and on the send night was taken up as a chant by the crowd that had swollen size as word spread like wildfire through the cy and ’s hard to appreciate through the mists of half a century how ant jt the words “Gay power” were back then.

50 YEARS LATER: HOW NYC'S STONEWALL RTS SPARKED THE MORN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

To utter the word “gay” on s own was an act of muty – the Village Voice, which nsired self at the vanguard of progrsive media 1969, refed to accept adverts wh “gay” their headl on grounds that the term was “obscene”.

Nor was Stonewall the first exprsn of physil ristance, as monstrated by the 1966 rt at Compton’s Cafeteria the Tenrlo area of San Francis prott agast police harassment of gay and transvte those early attempts at assertn were isolated and sporadic, and their prevailg ambn was one of acmodatn, tegratn. She saw the crowd om a distance but chose to walk right past , assumg to be jt another anti-Vietnam she learned the followg day that had fact been a risg up of gay men and their transgenr and lbian ras, immediately unlocked somethg her md.

LET IT ROAR: HOW STONEWALL SPARKED A GAY RIGHTS REVOLUTN

There were speech, Shelley’s among view of pair of shirtls men as they walk, arm arm through New York, durg the first Stonewall anniversary march, then known as Gay Liberatn Day (and later Gay Pri Day), on 28 June 1970.