Gay Rights - Movement, Marriage & Flag | HISTORY

Contents:

• PETER GAY, HISTORIAN WHO EXPLORED SOCIAL HISTORY OF IAS, DI AT 91
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
• STONEWALL, AIDS AND GAY LIBERATN: ONE HISTORIAN SHAR HOW THE CULTURAL MOMENTS SHAPED UTAH’S LGBTQ MUNY
• GAY & LESBIAN VAISHNAVA ASSOCIATION
• GAY RIGHTS
• VIO: GAY HISTORIAN DAVID STARKEY FENDS CHRISTIANS

PETER GAY, HISTORIAN WHO EXPLORED SOCIAL HISTORY OF IAS, DI AT 91

Yee/The New York TimMay 12, 2015Peter Gay, a German-born historian whose sense of tellectual adventure led him to wre groundbreakg books on the Enlightenment, the Victorian middle class, Sigmund Frd, Weimar culture and the cultural suatn of Jews Germany, died on Tuday at his home Manhattan. He was ath was nfirmed by his stepdghter Elizabeth Gay, a refugee om Nazi Germany, voted his reer to explorg the social history of ias, a qut that took him far om his origal area of specializatn, Voltaire and the Enlightenment. Gay to tra at the Wtern New England Instute for Psychoanalysis and motivated him to wre a revisnist psychohistory of the Victorian middle class, “The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Frd, ” whose five volum were published the 1980s and 1990s.

Gay relled the pleasur of attendg the 1936 Olympics — spoiled only by the sight of Hler and Görg the stands — and the nfg mix of savage reprsn and tolerance that characterized life unr the Nazis until 1938.

” They me out the 1980s and the 1990s, not jt the we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 25 of the New York edn wh the headle: Peter Gay, Historian and Frd Bgrapher, Di at 91. Bull and Hasks helped found the groundbreakg stunt group at the Universy of Mae 1973 — then held the first Mae Gay Symposium 1974, which jump-started Mae’s LGBTQ+ rights stggle, lnchg much further ahead toward jtice than most other stat.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

A photographic ntact sheet showg Steven Bull speakg at the first gay symposium put on by the Wild Ste Club at the Universy pf Mae 1974, is part of Bull’s papers hoed the Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversy’s LGBTQ+ llectn at the Universy of Southern Mae. But Allan's marketg tagle, "All of Ken's cloth f him, " backfired when led to mors that Ken and Allan were a homosexual relatnship, acrdg to was disntued around the same time as Midge, but has ocsnally reappeared Barbie lore. Specifilly, Williams, 71, has bee the chronicler of the history of Utah’s LGBTQ+ muny — much of which he has experienced as a young Brigham Young Universy stunt who was kicked out for beg gay, and later durg the AIDS epimic of the ‘80s when he cid to e the box, he rri bs and piec of the history he’s kept.

And there’s a dty block, a lifetime achievement award the Utah Pri Center gave him ’s the 2015 certifite, for outstandg ntributn, given to him by the Utah State Historil Society — which, Williams said, was the “first acknowledgment of [the existence] of a gay muny om a state agency.

“Very few ci n trace the orig of their gay muny, not only the origs, but who the people volved were, ” he of those journal entri have been chronicled Q Salt Lake Magaze and on his blog “This Day Gay Utah History. “I had to fort her by not tellg her that her son was queer, ” he 1973, he started attendg Brigham Young Universy — the Provo llege owned by The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats — but was kicked out 1976, when the school learned he was his time at BYU, rerds show, the universy was performg shock therapy on stunts as a “gay cure” — somethg Latter-day Sat apostle Dall H. Williams eventually was kicked out of BYU, whout gettg his teachg 1977, Williams did what many gay men the Latter-day Sat fah had done at the time: He got married to a woman, to “get back to the good grac of the church.

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

”Stonewall to Salt Lake CyWilliams said gay liberatn me to Salt Lake Cy October 1969, only a few months after the rts at the Stonewall Inn New York Cy, seen generally as the begng of the gay-rights rippl om Stonewall were felt natnally, mostly through llege mp, Williams said.

In Salt Lake Cy, there were also people wh progrsive iologi — such as Ralph Place, the founr of the state’s first gay anizatn; Joe Redburn, the rad host who found two of Salt Lake Cy’s inic gay bars, The Sun and The Trapp; and Lda Huntgton, whose bohemian store Mother’s Earth Thgs anchored the funky 9th and 9th bs muny Salt Lake Cy started small, wh ls than a hundred active members 1970, Williams said. ”The growth Utah’s LGBTQ+ activism stalled the late 1970s, Williams said, after a seri of vlent murrs of gay men, cludg social activist Anthony Adams, shut the muny down and forced people to go to Utah’s LGBTQ+ muny evolvedWilliams was one of the founrs of the Gay and Lbian Communy Council of Utah, which started 1986. He also was a equent speaker on KRCL’s “Concerng Gays and Lbians” started by Donna Maldonado (who died September) after Williams beme a schoolteacher, he said, his volvement the muny was on the down low, bee he would have lost his job otherwise.

”(Francis Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Ben Williams says the ternalized shame he faced as a gay man eventually spired him to bee an activist and the AIDS epimic is what spired him to e out at the age of 34. The term gay is equently ed as a synonym for homosexual; female homosexualy is often referred to as different tim and different cultur, homosexual behavur has been varly approved of, tolerated, punished, and banned. Morn velopments Attus toward homosexualy are generally flux, partially as a rult of creased polil activism (see gay rights movement) and efforts by homosexuals to be seen not as aberrant personali but as differg om “normal” dividuals only their sexual orientatn.

RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN

The nflictg views of homosexualy—as a variant but normal human sexual behavur on one hand, and as psychologilly viant behavur on the other—rema prent most societi the 21st century, but they have been largely rolved ( the profsnal sense) most veloped untri. The Ksey report of 1948, for example, found that 30 percent of adult Amerin mal among Ksey’s subjects had engaged some homosexual activy and that 10 percent reported that their sexual practice had been exclively homosexual for a perd of at least three years between the ag of 16 and 55. After the 1969 Stonewall rts, which New York Cy policemen raid a gay bar and met wh staed ristance, many homosexuals were embolned to intify themselv as gay men or lbians to iends, to relativ, and even to the public at large.

In rponse to their activism, many jurisdictns enacted laws banng discrimatn agast homosexuals, and an creasg number of employers Ameri and European untri agreed to offer “domtic partner” benefs siar to the health re, life surance and, some s, pensn benefs available to heterosexual married upl.

STONEWALL, AIDS AND GAY LIBERATN: ONE HISTORIAN SHAR HOW THE CULTURAL MOMENTS SHAPED UTAH’S LGBTQ MUNY

In one such stance, Albania repealed s sodomy statut 1995, and gay upl Amsterdam 2001 were legally married unr the same laws that ern heterosexual marriage (rather than unr laws that allowed them to “register” or form “domtic” partnerships).

However, most shared wh gay men the sire to have a secure place the world muny at large, unchallenged by the fear of vlence, the stggle for equal treatment unr the law, the attempt to silence, and any other form of civil behavur that impos send-class article was most recently revised and updated by Alison Eldridge. ” Two PhD stunts, ncerned about the “drift of the disciple” and cril of a proposal to put the anizatn on rerd support of gay history, imaged scholarship on “hherto virg topics, ” cludg the history of nsorts, semary dropouts, unemployed historians, nrotics, wheelwrights, and ugly persons. ” Rpondg to two gay historians who had wrten support of the proposed AHA rolutn, the stunts asked, “Dare we suggt that the pcy of urs gay history ow to the obv fact that the history of this and other ‘sexual mori’ is unimportant?

GAY & LESBIAN VAISHNAVA ASSOCIATION

), reprentg the CGH, proposed a rolutn that nmned “any form of harassment or discrimatn directed at sgle and gay women and men and members of all other sexual mori who rpect the rights of others, ” regardls of crimalizatn. Rubi then prented a send, more ntent rolutn that would nmn “historil bias” based on “sexism general or homophobia particular” and ll on “all historians to make available to gay people and all others engagg nsensual sexual acts all facets of their historil birthright.

” Rubi accepted one amendment that changed “all historians” to “the historil profsn, ” but he risted another to lete language cricizg historians for perpetuatg the myth that “homosexual acts are unnatural or evince of sickns. This one affirmed “the right of gay historians and others to engage the rearch and teachg of the history of sgle and gay people as well as members of all sexual mori” and clared that “attempts by lleagu, admistrators, and others signed to subvert such rearch and teachg are to be nsired vlatns of amic eedom. Rubi and Duberman rpond by highlightg “homophobia among lleagu and admistrators who hold unfound fears of proselytizg the classroom” and clarg that “an explic, clear, and sgular statement of support is need for gay historians to be able to teach the history of homosexualy.

While the membership voted agast the 1974–75 rolutn and there were plats about AHA program mtee discrimatn agast gay history panel proposals the early 1970s, the Organizatn of Amerin Historians (OAH) affirmed 1975 “the right of historians and others to engage rearch and teachg of the history of members of all sexual mori. It is difficult to know whether the divergent out reflected anizatnal differenc or differenc the wordg of the rolutns (the AHA one referred to “gay historians and others” while OAH referred to “historians and others”).

GAY RIGHTS

We almost variably will fail to do so bee we nnot image what we nnot image, but who among wants to be cricized 50 years om now for failg to appreciate the historil importance of nrotic, ugly, and unemployed gay wheelwrights? Published May by South Carola-based publisher Ardia Books, the 95-page book offers a mostly pictorial walk though the secrets, stggl and triumphs of Utah's gay muny, om the anti-gay terrorial laws that put men prison the late 1800s to the cy's first gay bars, early gay pri celebratns and the legalizatn of gay marriage. An activist who 1991 helped found the Utah Stonewall Center, a precursor to the current Utah Pri Center, Williams has been chroniclg Utah's gay history for s on the blog Utah Stonewall Society Archiv.

VIO: GAY HISTORIAN DAVID STARKEY FENDS CHRISTIANS

Among the other historil treasur pictured Anrson's book: • Rare streetspe photos of Utah's first known gay bars, the Crystal Lounge and the Rad Cy Lounge, which opened the late 1940s and early 1950s on Ma Street.