California Gov. Gav Newsom announced Wednday that he is posthumoly pardong gay civil rights lear Bayard Rt, who was arrted 1953 on anti-gay charg and spent 50 days jail.
Contents:
- GAY HISTORY IS BLACK HISTORY: THE 10 INS PROVE IT
- COLMAN DOMGO TO PLAY GAY CIVIL RIGHTS IN BAYARD RT BPIC
- BAYARD RT, GAY CIVIL RIGHTS IN, PARDONED BY CALIFORNIA ERNOR FOR ANTI-GAY CHARG
- CIVIL RIGHTS IN, CONVICTED OF GAY SEX 1950S, PARDONED CALIFORNIA
GAY HISTORY IS BLACK HISTORY: THE 10 INS PROVE IT
The Human Rights Campaign logo is one of the most regnizable symbols of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny. * gay civil rights icon *
(Drag) Kgs and Queens, dyk, homos, genr nonnformg, same-genr lovg, queer and trans folk populate our history and have been foundatnal to every sgle emancipatory movement we’ve ever had. A Simple Ponytail Hack For The Summer While The Silk Prs Is On PseOffEnglishGay folx been here. Johnson to Jimmy Baldw; om Audre Lor to Richard Nugent; om Countee Cullen to Patrisse Cullors—we owe to ourselv, to our muny, to all of our children, gay and otherwise, to tell the whole story.
Remarkably, Rt was out his entire life, yet still faced discrimatn wh the black muny and the larger movement for his sexualy, cludg a particularly paful episo where Congrsman Adam Clayton Powell of Harlem wield Rt’s homosexualy agast him and threatened MLK, who dropped him for polil expediency.
COLMAN DOMGO TO PLAY GAY CIVIL RIGHTS IN BAYARD RT BPIC
In the 1980s, Rt began to advote for gay rights, cludg a 1986 speech entled, “The New Niggers Are Gays.
BAYARD RT, GAY CIVIL RIGHTS IN, PARDONED BY CALIFORNIA ERNOR FOR ANTI-GAY CHARG
Blakk, a drag queen alter ego of Terence Smh (also of Pomo Ao Homos fame), ma her world but 1974, and 1991, ran agast Chigo Mayor Richard M.
CIVIL RIGHTS IN, CONVICTED OF GAY SEX 1950S, PARDONED CALIFORNIA
At a time where HIV and AIDS were cimatg the black and gay muny, separately and together, Blakk ed her voice to speak tth to power, nsistently puttg the issu and needs of gay, black and margalized people at the fore. “You n watch the news and never hear the word ‘gay’ mentned, ” Blakk said. Wrer and playwright Lorrae Hansberry pos for a portra her apartment 1959 New York David Attie (Getty Imag)Lorrae Hansberry (1930-1965) Young, Gifted & GayLorrae Hansberry was a prolific wrer, playwright, activist, and the wrer of the first play by a black woman to be produced on Broadway, who died far too young.