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Contents:
- GAY RIGHTS
- THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS
- GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
- 50 YEARS ON: HOW THE STONEWALL RTS SPIRED ATRALIA'S LGBTIQ+ MOVEMENTIN 1969, A RT A NEW YORK BAR SPARKED A GLOBAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. HALF A CENTURY ON, THOSE VOLVED THE ATRALIAN MPAIGN TELL SBS NEWS WHAT IMPACT HAD.THE STONEWALL RTS NEW YORK AND SYDNEY MARDI GRAS 2017. SOURCE: GETTY IMAG/AAPIN THE EARLY HOURS OF 28 JUNE 1969, AFTER A WARM NEW YORK NIGHT, A GROUP OF LGBTIQ+ LOLS CID TO STAND UP TO POLICE ABE AT THE CY'S NOW-LEGENDARY STONEWALL INN.THEIR ACTNS WOULD CHANGE THE URSE OF GAY RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD, CLUDG AS FAR AWAY AS ATRALIA.THIS WEEK MARKS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE STONEWALL RTS.PATRONS OF THE STONEWALL INN ON THE NIGHT OF THE 1969 RTS. SOURCE: GETTY IMAGFIGHTG BACKIN LATE 1960S AMERI, HOMOSEXUALY WAS STILL SEEN AS A MENTAL ILLNS AND GAY SEX WAS ILLEGAL EXCEPT ILLOIS.FEW VENU WELED OPENLY GAY AMERINS, AND EXCEPTNS - CLUDG THE MAFIA-N STONEWALL INN NEW YORK'S GREENWICH VILLAGE - OFTEN ATTRACTED THE ATTENTN OF THORI.POLICE RAIDS WERE ED TO EXPOSE THOSE WHO WERE GAY AND MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF MEN WHO CHOSE TO CROSS-DRS. BUT THGS CHANGED WHEN A GROUP OF GAY MEN AND WOMEN, DRAG QUEENS, AND TRANSGENR NEW YORKERS CHOSE TO FIGHT BACK AGAST OFFICERS WHO HAD RAID THE BAR FOR THE SEND TIME THAT WEEK.A CROWD ATTEMPTS TO IMPE POLICE ARRTS OUTSI THE STONEWALL INN GREENWICH VILLAGE 1969. SOURCE: NEW YORK DAILY NEWS/GETTY IMAG"THAT NIGHT, FOR WHATEVER REASON ... THEY STARTED TO FIGHT BACK," ATRALIAN LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS ACTIVIST GARRY WOTHERSPOON TOLD SBS NEWS THIS WEEK.STONEWALL PATRONS REFED TO STAND LE AND HAVE THEIR IDS - AND THEIR BODI - CHECKED BY POLICE.A CROWD GATHERED, SHOUTG BEGAN, AND A SCUFFLE BROKE OUT. POLICE BATONS WERE DRAWN AND VLENT PROTTS AND MONSTRATNS LASTED FOR MORE THAN THREE DAYS. "IT BEME THE SYMBOLIC START OF THE FIGHT FOR LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS ALL AROUND THE WORLD. IT WAS LIKE A STONE DROPPED A POND AND S RIPPL SPREAD."THAT NIGHT, FOR WHATEVER REASON ... THEY STARTED TO FIGHT BACK. - GARRY WOTHERSPOON, ATRALIAN ACTIVISTMARK SEGAL PARTICIPATED THE RTS. HE TOLD AFP: "IT WAS THE FIRST TIME OUR MUNY IMPRISONED THE POLICE, WHO HAD ALWAYS IMPRISONED BEFORE".POLICE VLENCE NEAR THE STONEWALL INN 1970. SOURCE: AAPA YEAR AFTER THE RTS, JUNE 1970, NEW YORK STAGED S FIRST EVER GAY PRI PARA CELEBRATG THE DIVERSY OF THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY.FROM STONEWALL TO SYDNEYBEFORE LONG, THE "RIPPL" OF STONEWALL H ATRALIA, WHERE LGBTIQ+ MOMENTUM HAD BEEN BUILDG, BUT DISCRIMATN REMAED WISPREAD.IN 1970, ATRALIANS CHRISTABEL POLL AND JOHN WARE "ME OUT" THE ATRALIAN NEWSPAPER AND ANNOUNCED THE FORMATN OF CAMP; THE CAMPAIGN AGAST MORAL PERSECUTN.NEW YORK'S STONEWALL INN. SOURCE: AAP"FROM THERE, ACTIVISM STARTED," SAID MR WOTHERSPOON, WHO WAS A MEMBER OF CAMP S EARLY DAYS."CAMP STARTED TO AL WH SEVERAL THGS, SUCH AS THE MEDIL PROFSN WHICH DID AVERSN THERAPY AND PSYCHOSURGERY, TO AL WH THE LAW WHICH CRIMALISED HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY, TO AL WH THE CHURCH WHICH REGARD AS SFUL," HE SAID.AN EARLY MARDI GRAS. SOURCE: SUPPLIEDTHEN MARCH 1978, ATRALIANS KEN DAVIS AND ANNE TALVE RECEIVED A LETTER OM THE SAN FRANCIS GAY FREEDOM DAY ANISERS LLG ON PEOPLE OVERSEAS TO STAND UP FOR LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS AND MEMORATE THE STONEWALL RTS."AS REPRENTATIV OF SAN FRANCIS'S LARGE AND ACTIVE GAY MUNY, WE ARE ENURAGG WORLDWI ACTIVI FOR GAY RIGHTS JUNE 25TH AND THE WEEK BEFORE ORR TO PRENT THE LARGT AND MOST UNIFIED SHOW OF SUPPORT HISTORY," THE LETTER READ.KEN DAVIS SYDNEY'S TAYLOR SQUARE THIS WEEK. SOURCE: EMMA LAWSON/SBS NEWSIT WAS ONE ELEMENT THAT LED TO THE FIRST MARDI GRAS BEG HELD SYDNEY LATER THAT YEAR."WE CID TO HAVE A FOM AND THEN A MARCH, AND WE CID TO HAVE A NIGHT TIME PARTY TAYLOR SQUARE, A CELEBRATN, NOT A MONSTRATN," MR DAVIS - WHO BEME ONE OF THE ORIGAL 78ERS - TOLD SBS NEWS.BUT THE EVENTS WERE MET WH POLICE VLENCE AND ARRTS.POLICE NONT PARTICIPANTS. SOURCE: SUPPLIED"THE UNEXPECTED POLICE ATTACK ON THAT MARDI GRAS WAS VERY TRMATIC, SO WE REALISED ON THE NTH ANNIVERSARY OF STONEWALL AMERI, WE WERE A SIAR SORT OF NFLICT WH POLICE POWER SYDNEY," MR DAVIS SAID."THE FACT WE WERE ATTACKED ... A VERY UNPROVOKED AND VLENT ATTACK REALLY JT GALVANISED AND THEN WE REALISED THAT WE HAD THIS ECHO OF THE STONEWALL REBELLN."THE FOLLOWG YEAR, UP TO 3,000 PEOPLE MARCHED AN CINT-EE PARA.MARDI GRAS WENT ON TO BEE AN ANNUAL EVENT SYDNEY AND TO THIS DAY RETAS THE SPIR OF BOTH PROTT AND CELEBRATN ACROSS THE UNTRY.SYDNEY IS CURRENTLY BIDDG TO BE THE HOST OF WORLDPRI 2023, AND AFTER THE LEGACY OF STONEWALL, JUNE IS NSIRED AS PRI MONTH AROUND THE WORLD.MEMBERS OF THE TIWI ISLANDS TRANSGENR MUNY AT MARDI GRAS 2017. SOURCE: GETTYIN 2018, NSW POLICE MISSNER MICHAEL FULLER GAVE AN OFFICIAL APOLOGY TO SYDNEY'S 78ERS OF BEHALF OF THE FORCE.AND EARLIER THIS MONTH, NEW YORK CY’S POLICE MISSNER JAM O’NEILL APOLOGISED FOR THE STONEWALL RAID WHICH SPARKED THE ORIGAL RT, SAYG “THE ACTNS TAKEN BY THE NYPD WERE WRONG”.'MORE WORK TO DO ATRALIA'REFLECTG ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF STONEWALL, MR WOTHERSPOON SAID THE EVENTS OF 28 JUNE 1969 NTUE TO HAVE AN IMPACT."[STONEWALL] BUILT MOMENTUM AND GRADUALLY ATTUS CHANGED THE WIR SOCIETY," HE SAID.BUT WHILE PROGRS HAD BEEN SIGNIFINT, HE SAID THERE ARE STILL "BLACK SPOTS" AROUND LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS ATRALIA.HE SAID THE UNTRY NEED STRONGER LAWS "WHICH PROTECT LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE OM DISCRIMATN" AND THAT WE NEED TO TAKE MORE "REFUGE WHO ARE FLEEG BEE OF THEIR SEXUALY".THE MARRIAGE AMENDMENT BILL PASS THE HOE OF REPRENTATIV 2017. SOURCE: AAPTHE SENTIMENT WAS ECHOED BY MR DAVIS."WE'VE MA THE EXTRAORDARY GAS, NOW WE N GET MARRIED ... [BUT] I THK NOW 'S IMPORTANT TO NOT BE PLACENT.""I THK 50 YEARS HAS BEEN A BIG CYCLE BUT WE SHOULDN'T ASSUME THAT THE FUTURE IS EASY."REARS SEEKG SUPPORT N FD A LIST OF LGBTIQ+ SERVIC AT ADDNAL REPORTG: AFPSHARE5 M READPUBLISHED 27 JUNE 2019 4:55PMUPDATED 28 JUNE 2019 10:32AMBY EMMA LAWSON, NICK BAKERTAGSATRALIANORTH AMERISHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHARETOPICS
GAY RIGHTS
In a short perd of time Atralia's crimal law has shown a dramatic shift perceptns regardg gays and lbians. * australia gay rights history *
Increasg scientific and medil tert “the homosexual” the early 20th century along wh the emergence of sexual liberatn movements globally the 1960s led to Atralia's earlit gay rights anisatns. [B]rg about a suatn where homosexuals n enjoy good jobs and secury those jobs, equal treatment unr the law, and the right to serve our untry whout fear of exposure and ntempt.
THE SECRET HISTORY OF ATRALIA'S GAY DIGGERS
LGBT Rights Atralia: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * australia gay rights history *
Inspired by the post-Stonewall march San Francis the very first gay rights march Atralia occurred Sydney on the 24th of June 1978 – what would eventually bee the annual Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras. An creased prence of out and proud gay people led to a rise gay hate crim the 1970s and 80s, the crim were often poorly handled or ignored by police at least partially bee gay sex remaed a crime. However gay sex remaed a crime Tasmania until 1994 when the Feral Keatg ernment passed the Human Rights (Sexual Conduct) Act 1994, which uniformly crimalised nsensual gay sex between adults throughout Atralia.
By The Numbers4% of Atralians scribed themselv as beg gay, lbian or bisexual78% of Atralians agree trans people serve the same rights and protectns as other Atralians66% of Atralians agree that young people should be able to accs healthre that supports them to live as their te selv.
GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage. * australia gay rights history *
Current statSce May 1, 1997Legal In 1997 the High Court of Atralia led that Tasmania's anti-gay laws were nsistent wh feral law, and Tasmania (the fal jurisdictn wh ntrary laws) was forced to crimalise by RegnHomosexual activy was ferally crimalized by the Human Rights (Sexual Conduct) Act 1994, although some lol state laws remaed nsent until marriage Atralia? 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.
RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
Gay rights movement, civil rights movement that advot equal rights for LGBTQ persons—that is, for lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons—and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life. * australia gay rights history *
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.
50 YEARS ON: HOW THE STONEWALL RTS SPIRED ATRALIA'S LGBTIQ+ MOVEMENTIN 1969, A RT A NEW YORK BAR SPARKED A GLOBAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. HALF A CENTURY ON, THOSE VOLVED THE ATRALIAN MPAIGN TELL SBS NEWS WHAT IMPACT HAD.THE STONEWALL RTS NEW YORK AND SYDNEY MARDI GRAS 2017. SOURCE: GETTY IMAG/AAPIN THE EARLY HOURS OF 28 JUNE 1969, AFTER A WARM NEW YORK NIGHT, A GROUP OF LGBTIQ+ LOLS CID TO STAND UP TO POLICE ABE AT THE CY'S NOW-LEGENDARY STONEWALL INN.THEIR ACTNS WOULD CHANGE THE URSE OF GAY RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD, CLUDG AS FAR AWAY AS ATRALIA.THIS WEEK MARKS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE STONEWALL RTS.PATRONS OF THE STONEWALL INN ON THE NIGHT OF THE 1969 RTS. SOURCE: GETTY IMAGFIGHTG BACKIN LATE 1960S AMERI, HOMOSEXUALY WAS STILL SEEN AS A MENTAL ILLNS AND GAY SEX WAS ILLEGAL EXCEPT ILLOIS.FEW VENU WELED OPENLY GAY AMERINS, AND EXCEPTNS - CLUDG THE MAFIA-N STONEWALL INN NEW YORK'S GREENWICH VILLAGE - OFTEN ATTRACTED THE ATTENTN OF THORI.POLICE RAIDS WERE ED TO EXPOSE THOSE WHO WERE GAY AND MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF MEN WHO CHOSE TO CROSS-DRS. BUT THGS CHANGED WHEN A GROUP OF GAY MEN AND WOMEN, DRAG QUEENS, AND TRANSGENR NEW YORKERS CHOSE TO FIGHT BACK AGAST OFFICERS WHO HAD RAID THE BAR FOR THE SEND TIME THAT WEEK.A CROWD ATTEMPTS TO IMPE POLICE ARRTS OUTSI THE STONEWALL INN GREENWICH VILLAGE 1969. SOURCE: NEW YORK DAILY NEWS/GETTY IMAG"THAT NIGHT, FOR WHATEVER REASON ... THEY STARTED TO FIGHT BACK," ATRALIAN LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS ACTIVIST GARRY WOTHERSPOON TOLD SBS NEWS THIS WEEK.STONEWALL PATRONS REFED TO STAND LE AND HAVE THEIR IDS - AND THEIR BODI - CHECKED BY POLICE.A CROWD GATHERED, SHOUTG BEGAN, AND A SCUFFLE BROKE OUT. POLICE BATONS WERE DRAWN AND VLENT PROTTS AND MONSTRATNS LASTED FOR MORE THAN THREE DAYS. "IT BEME THE SYMBOLIC START OF THE FIGHT FOR LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS ALL AROUND THE WORLD. IT WAS LIKE A STONE DROPPED A POND AND S RIPPL SPREAD."THAT NIGHT, FOR WHATEVER REASON ... THEY STARTED TO FIGHT BACK. - GARRY WOTHERSPOON, ATRALIAN ACTIVISTMARK SEGAL PARTICIPATED THE RTS. HE TOLD AFP: "IT WAS THE FIRST TIME OUR MUNY IMPRISONED THE POLICE, WHO HAD ALWAYS IMPRISONED BEFORE".POLICE VLENCE NEAR THE STONEWALL INN 1970. SOURCE: AAPA YEAR AFTER THE RTS, JUNE 1970, NEW YORK STAGED S FIRST EVER GAY PRI PARA CELEBRATG THE DIVERSY OF THE LGBTIQ+ MUNY.FROM STONEWALL TO SYDNEYBEFORE LONG, THE "RIPPL" OF STONEWALL H ATRALIA, WHERE LGBTIQ+ MOMENTUM HAD BEEN BUILDG, BUT DISCRIMATN REMAED WISPREAD.IN 1970, ATRALIANS CHRISTABEL POLL AND JOHN WARE "ME OUT" THE ATRALIAN NEWSPAPER AND ANNOUNCED THE FORMATN OF CAMP; THE CAMPAIGN AGAST MORAL PERSECUTN.NEW YORK'S STONEWALL INN. SOURCE: AAP"FROM THERE, ACTIVISM STARTED," SAID MR WOTHERSPOON, WHO WAS A MEMBER OF CAMP S EARLY DAYS."CAMP STARTED TO AL WH SEVERAL THGS, SUCH AS THE MEDIL PROFSN WHICH DID AVERSN THERAPY AND PSYCHOSURGERY, TO AL WH THE LAW WHICH CRIMALISED HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY, TO AL WH THE CHURCH WHICH REGARD AS SFUL," HE SAID.AN EARLY MARDI GRAS. SOURCE: SUPPLIEDTHEN MARCH 1978, ATRALIANS KEN DAVIS AND ANNE TALVE RECEIVED A LETTER OM THE SAN FRANCIS GAY FREEDOM DAY ANISERS LLG ON PEOPLE OVERSEAS TO STAND UP FOR LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS AND MEMORATE THE STONEWALL RTS."AS REPRENTATIV OF SAN FRANCIS'S LARGE AND ACTIVE GAY MUNY, WE ARE ENURAGG WORLDWI ACTIVI FOR GAY RIGHTS JUNE 25TH AND THE WEEK BEFORE ORR TO PRENT THE LARGT AND MOST UNIFIED SHOW OF SUPPORT HISTORY," THE LETTER READ.KEN DAVIS SYDNEY'S TAYLOR SQUARE THIS WEEK. SOURCE: EMMA LAWSON/SBS NEWSIT WAS ONE ELEMENT THAT LED TO THE FIRST MARDI GRAS BEG HELD SYDNEY LATER THAT YEAR."WE CID TO HAVE A FOM AND THEN A MARCH, AND WE CID TO HAVE A NIGHT TIME PARTY TAYLOR SQUARE, A CELEBRATN, NOT A MONSTRATN," MR DAVIS - WHO BEME ONE OF THE ORIGAL 78ERS - TOLD SBS NEWS.BUT THE EVENTS WERE MET WH POLICE VLENCE AND ARRTS.POLICE NONT PARTICIPANTS. SOURCE: SUPPLIED"THE UNEXPECTED POLICE ATTACK ON THAT MARDI GRAS WAS VERY TRMATIC, SO WE REALISED ON THE NTH ANNIVERSARY OF STONEWALL AMERI, WE WERE A SIAR SORT OF NFLICT WH POLICE POWER SYDNEY," MR DAVIS SAID."THE FACT WE WERE ATTACKED ... A VERY UNPROVOKED AND VLENT ATTACK REALLY JT GALVANISED AND THEN WE REALISED THAT WE HAD THIS ECHO OF THE STONEWALL REBELLN."THE FOLLOWG YEAR, UP TO 3,000 PEOPLE MARCHED AN CINT-EE PARA.MARDI GRAS WENT ON TO BEE AN ANNUAL EVENT SYDNEY AND TO THIS DAY RETAS THE SPIR OF BOTH PROTT AND CELEBRATN ACROSS THE UNTRY.SYDNEY IS CURRENTLY BIDDG TO BE THE HOST OF WORLDPRI 2023, AND AFTER THE LEGACY OF STONEWALL, JUNE IS NSIRED AS PRI MONTH AROUND THE WORLD.MEMBERS OF THE TIWI ISLANDS TRANSGENR MUNY AT MARDI GRAS 2017. SOURCE: GETTYIN 2018, NSW POLICE MISSNER MICHAEL FULLER GAVE AN OFFICIAL APOLOGY TO SYDNEY'S 78ERS OF BEHALF OF THE FORCE.AND EARLIER THIS MONTH, NEW YORK CY’S POLICE MISSNER JAM O’NEILL APOLOGISED FOR THE STONEWALL RAID WHICH SPARKED THE ORIGAL RT, SAYG “THE ACTNS TAKEN BY THE NYPD WERE WRONG”.'MORE WORK TO DO ATRALIA'REFLECTG ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF STONEWALL, MR WOTHERSPOON SAID THE EVENTS OF 28 JUNE 1969 NTUE TO HAVE AN IMPACT."[STONEWALL] BUILT MOMENTUM AND GRADUALLY ATTUS CHANGED THE WIR SOCIETY," HE SAID.BUT WHILE PROGRS HAD BEEN SIGNIFINT, HE SAID THERE ARE STILL "BLACK SPOTS" AROUND LGBTIQ+ RIGHTS ATRALIA.HE SAID THE UNTRY NEED STRONGER LAWS "WHICH PROTECT LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE OM DISCRIMATN" AND THAT WE NEED TO TAKE MORE "REFUGE WHO ARE FLEEG BEE OF THEIR SEXUALY".THE MARRIAGE AMENDMENT BILL PASS THE HOE OF REPRENTATIV 2017. SOURCE: AAPTHE SENTIMENT WAS ECHOED BY MR DAVIS."WE'VE MA THE EXTRAORDARY GAS, NOW WE N GET MARRIED ... [BUT] I THK NOW 'S IMPORTANT TO NOT BE PLACENT.""I THK 50 YEARS HAS BEEN A BIG CYCLE BUT WE SHOULDN'T ASSUME THAT THE FUTURE IS EASY."REARS SEEKG SUPPORT N FD A LIST OF LGBTIQ+ SERVIC AT ADDNAL REPORTG: AFPSHARE5 M READPUBLISHED 27 JUNE 2019 4:55PMUPDATED 28 JUNE 2019 10:32AMBY EMMA LAWSON, NICK BAKERTAGSATRALIANORTH AMERISHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHARETOPICS
* australia gay rights history *
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.
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. 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.