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• GAY TABLISHMENT TRAGEDY TO PH THEIR OWN AGENDA
• AGAST THE GAY BARS: THE WHE HORSE PROTT
• HOW GAY ACTIVISTS CHALLENGED THE POLICS OF CIVILY
• GAYBORHOODS ARE GETTG STROYED, SAN FRANCIS LGBTQ+ RIGHTS ACTIVIST SAYS

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But engagg gay behavr public (holdg hands, kissg or dancg wh someone of the same sex) was still illegal, so police harassment of gay bars ntued and many bars still operated whout liquor licens— part bee they were owned by the Rights Before StonewallThe first documented U. In 1966, three years before Stonewall, members of The Mattache Society, an anizatn dited to gay rights, staged a “sip-” where they openly clared their sexualy at taverns, darg staff to turn them away and sug tablishments who did. When The Commissn on Human Rights led that gay dividuals had the right to be served bars, police raids were temporarily Stonewall Inn The crime syndite saw prof terg to shunned gay clientele, and by the mid-1960s, the Genove crime fay ntrolled most Greenwich Village gay bars.

And was one of the few—if not the only—gay bar left that allowed were still a fact of life, but ually rpt ps would tip off Mafia-n bars before they occurred, allowg owners to stash the alhol (sold whout a liquor license) and hi other illegal activi.

GAY TABLISHMENT TRAGEDY TO PH THEIR OWN AGENDA

Stonewall's LegacyThough the Stonewall uprisg didn’t start the gay rights movement, was a galvanizg force for LGBT polil activism, leadg to numero gay rights anizatns, cludg the Gay Liberatn Front, Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD (formerly Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn), and PFLAG (formerly Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays) the one-year anniversary of the rts on June 28, 1970, thoands of people marched the streets of Manhattan om the Stonewall Inn to Central Park what was then lled “Christopher Street Liberatn Day, ” Ameri’s first gay pri para. ”In 2016, then-Print Barack Obama signated the se of the rts—Stonewall Inn, Christopher Park, and the surroundg streets and siwalks—a natnal monument regnn of the area’s ntributn to gay Gallery The Stonewall Inn is a bar loted New York Cy’s Greenwich Village that served as a haven the 1960s for the cy’s gay, lbian and transgenr muny. Exactly one year after Stonewall, activists om an array of groups memorated the rts by marchg together unr a banner that read CHRISTOPHER STREET GAY LIBERATION DAY the next 50 years, would bee a worldwi multibilln dollar event known as Pri—but almost never happened at four part special edn Pri seri exam the year between Stonewall and that first march, and how young queer activists upend the gay tablishment to make happen.

Many of them were found by munists the 50s, at the height of the Red Sre, and had to operate while navigatg FBI rmants filtratg their anizatns—the Mattache Society of Washgton, The Mattache Society of New York, and the Dghters of Bilis, to name a few—together formed the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns (ERCHO) there was a growg tratn among members that their tactics weren’t workg. Liberatn Day, or Pri, wasn’t the first annual public monstratn for queer rights the Uned earlier monstratn begng the mid ‘60s was the Annual Remr Day, where ERCHO members scend on Philalphia Cy Hall every Inpennce Day to picket silence for gay monstratn was nservative, to say the least. The goal was to prent gays and lbians as typil members of society, rather than the viants Amerins were tght to believe they June 20, 1969—one week before Stonewall—New York Dghters of Bilis founr Barbara Gtgs sent ERCHO anizatns the erary for the Fourth Annual Remr Day, emphasizg that the monstratn would be a “lawful, orrly, dignified one.

AGAST THE GAY BARS: THE WHE HORSE PROTT

A three-person mtee is thorized by ERCHO to pass upon the appearance of persons marchg on the picket le and to le off the le those not meetg the Rodwell was a 29 year old former member of the Mattache Society of New York (MSNY) before movg on to start the Homophile Youth Movement Neighborhoods (HYMN). Most memorably, the two would participate Mattache’s 1966 “Sip-” at Juli’ Bar to prott an ordance forbiddg bartenrs om servg alhol to gay Lesch, Craig Rodwell, and Randy Wicker are nied service at Juli’ Bar after tellg the bartenr they’re 1969, Lesch was the Executive Director of MSNY, and Craig Rodwell had moved June 24, 1969, Lesch rpond to the media packet for the Remr Day, rmg Gtgs that MSNY would not be attendg and mandg they remove the anizatn’s name om their addn to cg “abomable” treatment by Rodwell at the Remr a year before, Lesch wrote:We nnot support a monstratn that pretends to reflect the feelgs of all homosexuals while excludg many homosexuals om participatg the monstratn.

Sce our membership vers all the spectm of gay life, we enpass drag queens, leather queens, and many, many, groovy men and women…we choose neher to participate nor support the monstratn and to make our reasons pla our ntued:The Annual Remr held out such promise at s ceptn, and to see bee the personal property of a few who would set themselv up as an “tablishment”, no ls bigoted and exclnary than the real Establishment we’re supposedly fightg. Ined, when surg the web for Stockholm gay guis, many of the remend bars, rtrants and clubs are not specifilly LGBTQ oriented (but rather "gay-iendly") Wimark, PhD and rearcher at Stockholm Universy, has wrten extensively about the geographi of LGBTQ dividuals and their migratn patterns.

HOW GAY ACTIVISTS CHALLENGED THE POLICS OF CIVILY

Add to this the general crease the need for mercial plac due to Grdr and you get a small queer mercial scene, " says by Yury Dmrienko / ShutterstockThere's no soon as they're ready to leave their hotel room, many a gay tourist will head straight to their statn's "gayborhood"--an LGBT-iendly oasis wh a high ncentratn of queer tablishments one place.

Consistg of gay, workg-class artists, Homocult was all about righteo provotn an age when gay rights and gay exprsn were still very much ntrolled by the state (the famo Sectn 28 still force) – and where the emergence of a gay tablishment meant that alternative forms of thkg and behavg were creasgly owned upon by people who wanted gay people to be a homogeno group – thkg, drsg and behavg the same way, listeng to the same mic and had the same e – sentially existg as a mirror image of the straight mastream, where dividualy was owned upon and class divisns ran jt as eply. Defiantly Queer when ‘queer’ was not a remotely fashnable or acceptable word to e pole society and termedly sex-posive, Homocult set out to provoke and mock not jt the straight world and the blatant homophobia of the prs, but also the creasgly prissy and nformist Gay Movement, showg that there was an alternative iology, one that was polil, nontatnal and challengg of the more cliched ias of liberatn that often me only wh the permissn of the tablishment (and not jt the polil tablishment).

GAYBORHOODS ARE GETTG STROYED, SAN FRANCIS LGBTQ+ RIGHTS ACTIVIST SAYS

It was more ncerned wh allowg workg-class exprsns of sexualy – any sexualy – to flourish than to be part of any sort of gay movement that sought to make queer to a mercial mody that monied people uld buy to as a sign of rebelln. They’ve been pared to ntemporary direct actn groups like Outrage!, but they were actually much more provotive, even if their work was sentially sloganeerg rather than direct actn – a Homocult poster was still more revolutnary and – ahem – outrageo.

Gay Tim brand them ‘homophobic’, The Pk Paper said they were racists and sexists, allegedly radil bookshops like Manchter’s easily horrified Frontle Books banned their first publitn Queer Wh Class (the same shop also banned Divy). In dog so, they lnched the morn lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer movement, creatg a touchstone moment that would fe the next half-century of activist the Supreme Court’s historic legalizatn of same sex marriage 2015, Congrs’s recent approval of the Equaly Act, and the creased acceptance and reprentatn of LGBTQ people popular culture, we have unniably e a long way om the time when ps routely raid gay bars and beg outed nearly guaranteed a person would be labeled a sexual psychopath, blacklisted, ostracized by iends and fay, and legally barred om employment most occupatns, as scribed by John D’E his classic book on the pre-Stonewall era, Sexual Polics, Sexual much ls is known about day-to-day life for LGBTQ people pre-Stonewall, and what took place prr to the rebelln that laid the groundwork for events that would change the urse of morn LGBTQ people have been sexually timate wh others of the same sex sce the begng of time, the social nstctn of a gay inty is a relatively new phenomenon. In the Uned Stat, this has happened mostly wh the last hundred D'E argu his groundbreakg 1993 say, Capalism and Gay Inty, was only through the velopment of palist dtrializatn, the acpanyg expansn of large urban centers, and the transformative effect this procs had on social life that the material ndns for the velopment of LGBTQ inti and muni beme possible.