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Contents:

• THE GAY LIFE OF VV
• WHAT THE LAST 12 MONTHS OF MARV GAYE'S LIFE WERE LIKE
• GAY RIGHTS
• TOP 100 GAY BLOGS AND WEBS FOR GAY MEN
• THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S
• MARV: THE LIFE STORY OF MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE’S DEATH
• THE SPIR, THE FLH AND MARV GAYE

THE GAY LIFE OF VV

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WHAT THE LAST 12 MONTHS OF MARV GAYE'S LIFE WERE LIKE

Gaye had jt won two Grammy Awards for Sexual Healg, Midnight Love was risg to the Top 10, and Gaye had his eighth #1 album on the Top Black Albums chart (now known as R&B/HipHop). And on May 16, 1983, Marv Gaye's performance on "Motown 25: Yterday, Today, and Forever" proved to be as spellbdg as ever — though Gaye was noticeably haggard.

GAY RIGHTS

Gaye was far om a perfect man; sex-obssed and dg-addicted, wh a seri of broken relatnships, Gaye had been stgglg wh his mental health for some time. Acrdg to the Washgton Post, his younger sister, Zeola Gaye, said that he was paranoid and believed that someone was tryg to kill him — tth, seems as though the only person tryg to kill Gaye was himself. Durg the last year of his life, acrdg to Jet, Gaye's current girliend Deborah Derrick reported that she was rryg Marv's unborn child (she later misrried).

By the time I was twelve, there wasn't an ch on my body that hadn't been bised and beaten by him, " Marv Gaye once said, acrdg to Divid Soul: The Life of Marv Gaye. A scuffle ensued, after which Gaye's father me back and shot him twice the cht — wh the pistol that Gaye himself had sent him some months earlier. "Marv knew if he ever touched Father, my father would kill him, " Zeola Gaye would later say, per the Washgton Post, "It was a mercy killg.

Acrdg to the Inpennt, a rerd nversatn revealed his secury officer warned Gaye that if he kept provokg his father, "he's told you what he'll do. Marv Gaye would be ducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1987 and earned the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 1996 — spe a life cut short.

TOP 100 GAY BLOGS AND WEBS FOR GAY MEN

But the last months of Gaye's life don't tell the entire story; the story of a child domated by a father who would eventually go on to kill him. The Early Gay Rights Movement In 1924, Henry Gerber, a German immigrant, found Chigo the Society for Human Rights, the first documented gay rights anizatn the Uned Stat.

THE VELVET MAFIA: THE GAY MEN WHO HELPED SHAPE MIC THE 60S

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. And durg World War II, the Nazis held homosexual men ncentratn mps, brandg them wh the famo pk triangle badge, which was also given to sexual predators.

MARV: THE LIFE STORY OF MARV GAYE

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 fact, gay men and women New York Cy uld not be served alhol public due to liquor laws that nsired the gatherg of homosexuals to be “disorrly. ”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.

MARV GAYE’S DEATH

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.

As -founr of the Gay Liberatn Front, Rivera was known for participatg the Stonewall Rts and tablishg the polil anizatn STAR (Street Transvte Actn Revolutnari). After the Stonewall Rts, a msage was pated on the outsi of the board-up bar readg, "We homosexuals plead wh out people to please help mata peaceful and quiet nduct on the streets of the village. " 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.

THE SPIR, THE FLH AND MARV GAYE

They are pictured here marchg Tim Square,, Sylvia Ray Rivera (ont) and Arthur Bell are seen at a gay liberatn monstratn, New York Universy, 1970 Marsha P. Johnson is seen at a Gay Liberatn Front monstratn at Cy Hall New York, a large crowd memorat the 2nd anniversary of the Stonewall rts Greenwich Village of New York Cy 1971. 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.