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
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COLMAN DOMGO TO PLAY GAY CIVIL RIGHTS IN BAYARD RT BPIC
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. 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.
BAYARD RT, GAY CIVIL RIGHTS IN, PARDONED BY CALIFORNIA ERNOR FOR ANTI-GAY CHARG
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.
CIVIL RIGHTS IN, CONVICTED OF GAY SEX 1950S, PARDONED CALIFORNIA
In 1999, Hansberry was posthumoly ducted to the Chigo Gay and Lbian Hall of Fame. 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.