Sce October 1987, thoands of Amerins have e together on Oct. 11 to celebrate gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr orientatns across the untry. The celebratn not only brgs together the diversy of sexual orientatns and memorat "g out" among the mass, but also brgs foc to the liberti and issu that ncern alternative liftyl.
Contents:
- MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST
- HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
- GAY AND PROUD
- SAY LOUD: I’M BLACK, GAY AND PROUD!
- PRI MONTH: SAY IT LOUD, GAY IS PROUD
- STONEWALL 50: ‘SAY LOUD! GAY & PROUD!’ MAKG GAY HISTORY PODST EPISO 3
- SAY LOUD, “I’M GAY AND I’M PROUD”
MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST
* say it loud gay and proud *
Donna Gottschalk—lbian, femist, activist, photographer, artist—at the first Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day march New York Cy, June 28, 1970. Episo NotFrom Eric Marc: After listeng to Makg Gay History’s first two Stonewall 50 episos, you know that Stonewall isn’t where all began. By the time of the June 1969 Stonewall uprisg, the homophile movement was nearly two s old and there were between 50 to 60 anizatns across the untry.
And pre-Stonewall activists, who numbered the hundreds, were joed by thoands—even tens of thoands—of newly energized activists mted to fightg for gay liberatn. Veteran homophile activists joed wh LGBTQ folks who had earned their strip the Black civil rights movement, the anti-war effort, and the women’s movement to lnch new -your-face anizatns dited to nontg the system—the discrimatn, harassment, and crimalizatn—that forced gay people to live fear.
———Lda Hirshman, thor of Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolutn, puts Stonewall to perspective this 2019 Los Angel Tim episo touch on how the media reported on the Stonewall uprisg at the time. Ellen Broidy offers her perspective this 2018 terview om the Natnal Park Service’s Stonewall Oral History more about Craig Rodwell this bgraphil overview and watch him nversatn wh Vo Rso at the Osr Wil Memorial Bookshop this 1983 terview om Rso’s TV show Our Time, startg at this 1994 terview, Martha Shelley discs her volvement wh the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF). And vis the NYC LGBT Historic S Project webse for more rmatn about Alternate U, the GLF’s home an overview and history of the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), have a look at this article by Lda Rapp om the GLBTQ Archive.
HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
Cred: Photographer unknown, urty of Gay and Proud, a 12-mute documentary by lbian activist Lilli Vcenz about the first Christopher Street Liberatn Day March New York Cy on June 28, 1970. ———Breck Arry: This is Breck Arry, and I am the producer and narrator of a documentary rerd album lled June 28, 1970: Gay and Proud.
———BA: The Stonewall rebelln served notice on the heterosexual majory that a growg number of gays were not aaid anymore and were not ntent to ntue livg out their liv fear and opprsn.
An d documentary ma by a gay person about the year that gay liberatn found s and back ver of Breck Arry’s 1970 documentary album “June 29, 1970: Gay and Proud. ”Actor 1: “Wh a battle cry of ‘gay power, ’ the Nelli, fems, gay boys, queens—all those who flnt their homosexualy—have been monstratg that they have ed been phed too far.
GAY AND PROUD
———Actor 1: “The sudn specter of ‘gay power’ raised s brazen head and spat out a fairytale the lik of which the area has never seen. ———EM Narratn: Activists like the one you jt heard speakg a rerdg om 1969 would soon have an answer to the Voice’s bigotry wh more anizatns, more protts, and their own newspapers wh tl like Come Out!, GAY, and the Queen’s Quarterly.
SAY LOUD: I’M BLACK, GAY AND PROUD!
Before the rts, she’d been the print of the lbian homophile anizatn the Dghters of Bilis, and she went to the July 4 Remr Day prott, too, dutifully cked out—awkwardly— a skirt and bloe. And was a divisn of feelg wh the Mattache Society, and we left and then…———MS: Marty Robson thks I me up wh the name Gay Liberatn Front. I remember g up at the meetg and I remember poundg my fist on the table, yellg exultatn, “That’s , that’s , we’re the Gay Liberatn Front!
———EM Narratn: Martha Shelley was one of the -founrs of the GLF, although “founr” is a tricky word to attach to the Gay Liberatn Front, which was a strictly non-hierarchil and nsens-led group. Like, I n look at a woman now and say, “I’m homosexual, ” you know, and se and feel good about and watch her whole thg, like, llapse and, you know, go crazy. I thk the danc were really important bee we were exprsg ourselv physilly, we were exprsg our affectn for each other and our sense of muny those danc, which you uldn’t do gay bars.
PRI MONTH: SAY IT LOUD, GAY IS PROUD
But at least the gay liberatn danc there was this nscns of, We are here to give each other love and acceptance, and who we are is okay. ———CR: And we did up a formal rolutn, everythg, to change the annual Remrs to Christopher Street Liberatn Day to be celebrated the last Sunday of June to memorate the birth of the gay liberatn movement as exemplified by the Stonewall rts. And the ia, a nutshell, is to set asi the day for a show of uny, solidary, and pri, llective pri of gay people, and not to have appear that ’s n or actually be n by one Rodwell and his mother stg behd the unter si the Osr Wil Memorial Bookstore, 1973 or 1974.
In late December of 1969, activists trated wh the GLF’s non-stcture and s allianc wh other, not explicly gay , spl off to form the Gay Activists Alliance—a sgle issue-group that unted Marty Robson among s early members. Members of the Gay Liberatn Front wh “Gay Power” letters on their shirts, monstrate ont of New York Cy’s Crimal Court buildg, 1970. ” So my iends and I tripped down there to the meetg om Jersey and we took a peek and was nothg but butch male homosexuals that always opprsed transvt.
Even butch-intified, even men, you know, homosexual mal that are alg wh their sexism, are always discrimatg agast transvt bee they jt n’t, we’re threateng their masculy. Bob Kohler of New York’s Gay Liberatn Front says he thks a repetn of the Stonewall rts is Kohler: Yeah, yeah, I thk uld happen aga. In the pre-dawn hours of March 8, 1970, the ps raid an after-hours gay bar a basement jt a stone’s throw om the Stonewall, lled the Snake P.
STONEWALL 50: ‘SAY LOUD! GAY & PROUD!’ MAKG GAY HISTORY PODST EPISO 3
It was a radilizg moment for many, cludg Vo York Tim article about the prott that followed the March 1970 raid on the Snake P after hours gay bar Greenwich Village. ———Vo Rso: Among the ctomers arrted was an Argentian natnal, and Diego Viñal was here on a visa and he was aaid that if me out that he was gay he would be ported, and he jumped om the send floor of the police statn wdow on 10th Street to try to pe and land on a spike fence. And was the followg Thursday when I went to my first Gay Activists Alliance Activists Alliance flyer announcg the Snake P raid prott, March 1970.
———MM: I was stg wh some iends, havg a sandwich or somethg, at Mama’s Chick’N’Rib, a popular gay ffee shop on Greenwich Avenue, and this monstratn went by. You’re a fuckg Nazi, There were further nontatns between the gay people and straight bystanrs on the street after Goldberg had left the scene.
Unintified Protter: Well, I’ve been talkg for five years, god damm, I don’t re how long you’ve been State Assemblyman Al Blumenthal stayed on the scene for over half an hour attemptg to assure gays that Goldberg was really on their si.
SAY LOUD, “I’M GAY AND I’M PROUD”
BA: After the cint was over, Jim Owl, print of the Gay Activists Alliance, was asked what he felt the nontatn had acplished. Jim Owl: Well, I thk we showed Arthur Goldberg that whenever he mak an appearance the cy, he has to be willg to speak to his homosexual nstuents.