10 Gay Ain Amerins Who Moved Culture and History

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

(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. In the 1980s, Rt began to advote for gay rights, cludg a 1986 speech entled, “The New Niggers Are Gays.

COLMAN DOMGO TO PLAY GAY CIVIL RIGHTS IN BAYARD RT BPIC

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. 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.

Before her ath at 34, Hansberry joed the NY Dghters of Bilis as an activist the “homophile” movement and ntributed two letters to their magaze, The Ladr, unr her ials, “LHN. In 1999, Hansberry was posthumoly ducted to the Chigo Gay and Lbian Hall of Fame.

BAYARD RT, GAY CIVIL RIGHTS IN, PARDONED BY CALIFORNIA ERNOR FOR ANTI-GAY CHARG

Miss Major is all of the followg: a prison abolnist, an AIDS activist, and a performer, all the while llg out the racism and transphobia of the gay muny. DeLaverie was one of several “butch lbians” who fought the opprsive, prejudiced NYPD on that fateful summer night—for this, she has been dubbed the “Rosa Parks of the Gay Rights Movement. DeLarverie was also a fixture the Gay Pri para for years, and a bouncer at many lbian bars and clubs New York Cy’s Greenwich Village, packg a legal gun (until she was 85) to protect agast those who would do the gay muny harm.

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The upg bpic Rt has some official first-look imag, cludg plenty of photos of gay Emmy-Award-wng actor Colman Domgo who plays the film, directed by Gee C. “As long as gay people don’t have their rights all across Ameri, there’s no reason for celebratn, ” she once said.

CIVIL RIGHTS IN, CONVICTED OF GAY SEX 1950S, PARDONED CALIFORNIA

Johnson was a key figure of the 1960s gay rights movement the US and, as legend has , threw the brick that igned the famo Stonewall rts, which were the talyst for the movement and have spired many Pri march ever 1992, Johnson’s body was found the Hudson River. She was once arrted for attemptg to climb through a wdow ( a drs and heels) to a room where the New York Cy Council was batg a gay rights bill, NBC reported. “Sylvia’s role gay history was that she was one of the first people to highlight that our movement need to be more clive of people who did not f the mastream, ” Carrie Davis, Chief Programs and Policy Officer at New York Cy’s LGBT Communy Center, told NBC News.

9, AP PhotoHarvey Milk, the subject of the Osr-wng film Milk, was the first openly gay polician to be elected California.

Alice NkomEmbed om Getty ImagAlice Nkom is a human rights lawyer and LGBTQ activist om Cameroon, where homosexualy is still crimalized. In a untry where police officer entrap members of the LGBTQ muny through text msag and beat those they perceive to be gay, Nkom bravely fights for rights on behalf of the LGBTQ Nkom intifi as heterosexual, she has dited her work to fightg for Cameroon’s LGBTQ muny and found the Associatn for the Defence of Homosexualy 2003.