Gay Rights Demonstratn, Albany, New York, 1971 - NYPL Digal Collectns

Contents:

• GAY RIGHTS MONSTRATN, ALBANY, NEW YORK, 1971
• GAY RIGHTS MONSTRATN ALBANY, NY, 1971
• GAY RIGHTS DEMONSTRATN, ALBANY, NEW YORK, 1971
• NATN’S FIRST GAY RIGHTS DEMONSTRATN HELD
• GAY RIGHTS MONSTRATN, ALBANY, NEW YORK
• THIS IS WHAT GAY LIBERATN LOOKED LIKE IN THE '70S
• GAY RIGHTS DEMONSTRATN, ALBANY, NEW YORK, 1971

GAY RIGHTS MONSTRATN, ALBANY, NEW YORK, 1971

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NATN’S FIRST GAY RIGHTS DEMONSTRATN HELD

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Here is a py of one of the pleted surveys, where a pany ma clear that they would refe to employ known homosexuals. NYPL Digal Collectns, Image ID: 1582065 Gay Rights Demonstratn, Albany, New York, 1971. NYPL Digal Collectn, Image ID: 57977675At the same time that gay and lbian activists were monstratg for employment rights, transgenr and genr-nonnformg activists were also fightg agast employment discrimatn through anizatns like the Erickson Edutnal Foundatn, Street Transvte Actn Revolutnari, and Labyrth Foundatn Counselg/Genr Service, Inc., among others.

GAY RIGHTS MONSTRATN, ALBANY, NEW YORK

I was recently touch wh historian Stephen Vir, thor of The Queerns of Home: Genr, Sexualy, and the Polics of Domticy After World War II and curator of Gay Gotham, a 2016 exhibn at the Mm of the Cy of New York. While rearchg Gay Gotham, Vir beme terted the story of performer, activist, and drag in Lee Brewster.

Often historians have prented a sharp spl between the revolutnary goals of groups like Gay Liberatn Front and the more rights-foced agenda of groups like Gay Activists Alliance—but I knew that Rivera had participated many rights-foced protts.

THIS IS WHAT GAY LIBERATN LOOKED LIKE IN THE '70S

Diana Davi, Gay rights monstratn, Albany, New York, 1971; NYPL Digal Collectns, Image ID: 1582040. For Vir, the photograph illtrat the ep and unrexamed nnectns between trans, gay, and lbian liberatn the early 1970s—and how those movements advoted for legal reform along wh cultural transformatn.

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The Gay Swchboard of New York was found 1971 to safely and privately provi llers wh rmatn about queer-iendly tablishments, and to allow for open discsns about sexualy and queer inty. Members of the Gay Activists Alliance holdg a s- at New York State Republin headquarters New York Cy 1970.

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The Gay Liberatn Day march New York Cy June 1970. The Gay Liberatn Front marchg on Tim Square 1969. A gay rights picket le at the Pentagon the summer of 1965.

A "Straights for Gays" sign at the Philalphia Gay Pri rally and march June 1972. Johnson picketg NYC's Bellevue Hospal to prott unfair treatment of street people and gays the 1970s.