The Send Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights — October 11, 1987 | Bs Insir India

Contents:

• GAY PRI’S CHOICE: MARCH PROTT OR DANCE WORRI AWAY
• GAY RIGHTS
• MARCH ON WASHGTON ULD REIGNE THE FULL FORCE OF THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS THE UNED STAT: NATNAL MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS

GAY PRI’S CHOICE: MARCH PROTT OR DANCE WORRI AWAY

Two years after the Whe Hoe was adorned rabow lors to memorate the Supreme Court’s lg legalizg same-sex marriage natnwi, gay rights activists and lawmakers are preparg to march on Washgton aga, sayg the current Print threatens to erase those gas. Gay rights activists plan to air their ncerns at the “Equaly March for Uny and Pri” Washgton on Sunday as well as at 50 sister march at ci across the untry this month. The march Sunday, which will memorate the upg anniversary of the shootg aths of 49 people and woundg of more than 50 others at gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, spe Tmp’s promis durg the mpaign to be a “iend” to the gay muny.

Although Tmp has ntued Print Barack Obama’s executive orr protectg LGBT feral workers and LGBT ary service members still serve openly, his admistratn has revoked protectns for transgenr school stunts, and s mentns of the words lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr statements have been few and far between. Meanwhile, some of Tmp’s most ntroversial proposals such as buildg a borr wall, implementg a travel ban om six majory Mlim untri, and repealg the Affordable Care Act, would negatively affect gay people, activists say. As a rult, the Tmp admistratn has stilled fear gay people hopg to immigrate to the Uned Stat to pe untri that don’t protect gay rights, transgenr stunts at public schools who no longer have the protectns outled by the Obama admistratn, and HIV-posive LGBT Amerins pendg on the Affordable Care Act for meditn who fear the loss of health re unr the GOP’s repeal and replacement legislatn, said Chad Griff, print of the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBT civil rights group.

The group is lnchg a “summer of actn” mpaign, which will kick off tanm wh the annual Capal Pri para Washgton on Saturday and will feature more than 250 grassroots events natnwi aimed at tg LGBT people and their alli on the ways that they n advote for polici that advance gay rights. The Whe Hoe did not rpond to CNN’s requt for ment, but Tmp repeatedly st himself as a champn for the LGBT muny durg the mpaign, and he won signifint praise for beg the first Republin nomee to mentn gay people his acceptance speech.

GAY RIGHTS

Gay rights activists, however, say Tmp’s refal to issue an official Whe Hoe statement memoratg LGBT Pri Month – chosen by advot to memorate New York’s Stonewall uprisg 1969 – is symptomatic of the Whe Hoe’s agenda for LGBT Amerins. Evan Wolfson, who found Freedom to Marry, an anizatn often creded for same-sex marriage victori on state and feral levels, said the legislatn stems om the same “anti-gay dtry” as the past, addg that the polil and legal landsp have changed sce the Supreme Court guaranteed same-sex marriage equaly 2015. Even the Boy Suts dropped s ban on gay wh the electn of Print Tmp and Vice Print Mike Pence, and the appotment of several bet members whose agendas are perceived by some as anti-gay, many realized that those gas uld be easily lost.

”So she, like many others, began phg to turn the natn’s pri paras to old-fashned prott march rponse to the potential unravelg of s of polil and social makeovers have brought tense nontatns between anizers who have spent months planng celebratns and those who thk the polil suatn is so dire that the paras need to be the middle, and feelg left out, are the people who jt want to show up and party, and the polilly nservative who nce that although gay pri march have always been somewhat polil nature, they have never been liberately bare-knuckle battl are nothg new when to pri celebratns. Muny know that queer street activism is as old and as predictable as the rabow, ” said Bob Weck, a munitns strategist and oime ngrsnal prs secretary who works wh the gay muny and bs like Marrtt that market to Hodgson for The New York Tim“We create drama as much as nont , ” Mr.

They even bated whether people who joed the 51-block march om Greenwich Village to Central Park should be required to follow a drs first march and rally (“a gay-” the parlance of the era) were staged on the first anniversary of the days of uprisgs that followed a police raid at the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village. They have weathered fights over how to rpond to the AIDS crisis and the fight for marriage equaly, and weighed whether acceptg lucrative rporate sponsorships was sellg year, grief and heightened ncerns about secury the aftermath of the mass shootg at the Pulse nightclub Orlando, Fla., washed over many gay pri paras.

MARCH ON WASHGTON ULD REIGNE THE FULL FORCE OF THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Last year, protters staged a boytt of the para, sayg the event had lost foc and was danger of beg ltle more than a mic ftival for the young that some lled a “gay Coachella.

Early anizg meetgs were heated, wh groups like Gays Agast Guns, Rise and Rist, and Act Up prsg the mtee to clu prott groups or face havg tens of thoand of monstrators show up anyway and possibly lead to disptn and arrts. ”Sue Doster, who has been a pri anizer New York and New Jersey for more than 20 years, ially worried about the logistics volved addg a wave of anti-Tmp protters to the mix, but said the two sis were not really that far the act of attendg a gay pri para or dancg the street wh a lover n be a form of prott when L.

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. 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.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS THE UNED STAT: NATNAL MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS

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.