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Contents:

• GAY RIGHTS
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• SILENT NO MORE: EARLY DAYS THE FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
• BIG PICTURE: 'GOD HAT SIGNS' - GAY RIGHTS PROTTERS' PLARDS

GAY RIGHTS

Every Fourth of July begng 1965, the Remr march—named after the need to "remd" the public of the opprsn faced by the gay muny—aimed to secure acceptance by showg how unthreateng LGBT people were to the rt of society. The mpaign was brought to an end after Mayor Ldsay entered office 1966 (partly due to lobbyg om Dick Lesch and Mattache) queens (g the language of the era) were the equent targets of the NYPD's Public Morals Sectn, which enforced all laws ncerng vice and gamblg, which also clud homosexualy. Found as Parents of Gays (you n see the name on one of the signs this photo), the anizatn was started by three cisgenr upl wh queer children: Jeanne and Jul Manford, Amy and Dick Ashworth, and Bob and Elae Benov.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

The Cy of New York recently announced the pair will be honored wh a memorial near the Stonewall se; the procs of choosg the artist is currently a failed occupatn at NYU October 1970, Rivera drafted a document (ma public by activist and wrer Rea Gossett) wh the headle, "Gay Power When Do We Want It? Makg rent was a perennial challenge; they lost the apartment after eighteen 1972, the drivg forc of the queer rights movement, now firmly unr the ntrol of whe, middle-class gays and lbians, had succeed phg trans people of lor, cludg those that had been at the foreont of the movement jt a few years earlier, to the sil.

SILENT NO MORE: EARLY DAYS THE FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS

Then ’69 she beme part of this anizatn lled the Gay Liberatn Front and began documentg gay, lbian, and transgenr activists New York Cy and around the was photography weaponized as a tool for LGBT activism? The rts happened at the end of June 1969, when the bar was raid one eveng as part of a state crackdown on drkg tablishments that did not have their liquor license — as well as the fact that the bar was servg gay and transgenr people, who were nsired crimal clientele at the the raid a lot of the clientele began to fight back, but what most overlook is that a lot of those who were fightg back were the people on the streets at the time: disenanchised queer youths who were livg on the streets of New York Cy and the Village, many of whom had been kicked out by their fai, had difficulty fdg jobs bee they were genr nonnformg, and this really beme the re of the people who fought back agast the police that night. It’s important to realize that beg gay or lbian was a crime the Uned Stat up to 2003, and was also thought of as a mental illns that [people] uld be stutnalized and subjected to electroshock treatment for.

So for the people to publicly make a statement that they were gay or lbian was this enormo risk for them — they uld have lost of the statement that was beg ma the early march was the refal to be an visible mory. (Photo by Spencer Grant/Getty Imag)Harold Adler/Unrwood Archiv via Getty ImagA participant at a gay Pri gatherg Goln Gate Park, San Francis, California, cir Imag via Getty ImagA group, led by several people rryg an 'It's Time!

BIG PICTURE: 'GOD HAT SIGNS' - GAY RIGHTS PROTTERS' PLARDS

Allan Tannenbm via Getty ImagCoupl embrace and kiss Central Park after a gay Pri para, New York, New York, June 26, Alpert via Getty ImagA gay rights protter drag wh a banner clarg 'Not Every Boy Dreans Of Beg A Mare' durg a gay rights march up Fifth Avenue to Central Park, New York Archive via Getty ImagA group of men ri a tck at the tersectn of 32nd Street and Fifth Avenue durg the annual gay Pri para New York Cy, cir Prs via Getty ImagGay and lbian Pri para New York Cy, cir 1980. Barbara Alper via Getty ImagMembers of the People Wh AIDS movement rry a banner durg the gay Pri para New York Cy, June Reste via Getty ImagNear the tersectn of North Broadway and Wt Barry Avenue, participants march behd a banner that reads 'G. C., Gay & Lbian Physicians of Chigo' durg the annual Chigo gay and lbian Pri day para, Chigo, Illois, June 28, Sohm/Visns of Ameri via Getty ImagGay and lbian Pri para, Hollywood, California, McPartland via Getty ImagTwo women wearg 'Wife' signs around their necks, se for the mera, at the 1989 gay Pri para Greenwich Village, Manhattan, memoratg the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, June 25, 1989: #TheFutureIsQueer is HuffPost’s monthlong celebratn of queerns, not jt as an inty but as actn the world.

Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter. Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group.

”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze. Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review.

That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D. In 1961, Illois beme the first state to do away wh s anti-sodomy laws, effectively crimalizg homosexualy, and a lol TV statn California aired the first documentary about homosexualy, lled The 1965, Dr.

”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue. They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn. " This sign was wrten by the Mattache Society–an early anizatn dited to fightg for gay reportg the events, The New York Daily News rorted to homophobic slurs s tailed verage, nng the headle: “Homo Nt Raid, Queen Be Are Stgg Mad.

”Over the next several nights, gay activists ntued to gather near the Stonewall, takg advantage of the moment to spread rmatn and build the muny that would fuel the growth of the gay rights movement.

1 / 12: NY Daily News Archive/Getty ImagChristopher Street Liberatn Day Shortly after the Stonewall uprisg, members of the Mattache Society spl off to form the Gay Liberatn Front, a radil group that lnched public monstratns, protts and nontatns wh polil officials.

Siar groups followed, cludg the Gay Activists Alliance, Radilbians, and Street Transvt Actn Revolutnari (STAR) 1970, at the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, New York Cy muny members marched through lol streets memoratn of the event.

Activists also turned the once-disreputable Pk Triangle to a symbol of gay Polil Victori The creased visibily and activism of LGBTQ dividuals the 1970s helped the movement make progrs on multiple onts.

Addnally, several openly LGBTQ dividuals secured public office posns: Kathy Kozachenko won a seat to the Ann Harbor, Michigan, Cy Council 1974, beg the first out Amerin to be elected to public Milk, who mpaigned on a pro-gay rights platform, beme the San Francis cy supervisor 1978, beg the first openly gay man elected to a polil office asked Gilbert Baker, an artist and gay rights activist, to create an emblem that reprents the movement and would be seen as a symbol of pri. Baker signed and stched together the first rabow flag, which he unveiled at a pri para followg year, 1979, more than 100, 000 people took part the first Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights. In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn published a report about five prevly healthy homosexual men beg fected wh a rare type of 1984, rearchers had intified the e of AIDS—the human immunoficiency vis, or HIV—and the Food and Dg Admistratn licensed the first mercial blood tt for HIV 1985.