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Contents:
- PORTLAND’S FIRST GAY RIGHTS MARCH
- MOVG TO GAY OREGON? THG TO KNOW BEFORE RELOTG HERE AS AN LGBT PERSON.
- OREGON GAY RIGHTS REPORT (PORTLAND TOWN COUNCIL, PORTLAND, OR) [NEWSLETTER]: V. 5, NO. 10 (OCTOBER 1979) - V. 8, NO. 5 (OCTOBER 1982), PLETE.
PORTLAND’S FIRST GAY RIGHTS MARCH
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Wh all the fun and celebratn surroundg Gay Pri events, might be ls mon for people to thk about the s of stggle. The years and years of hard work that veteran LGBTQ+ activists put to transform fear and hate to wir sentiments of love and acceptance, whether they be scere or least one study shows there’s a large group of Amerins who know nothg about the Stonewall if you are among this group of Amerins, here’s a quick summary: In the early hours of June 28th, 1969 an uprisg took place at the Stonewall Inn New York Cy that sparked a natnal gay rights and liberatn Pri durg a para for Portland Pri, 1998. Even Crocs has a Pri so much quiet labor has gone to turng one vlent night to a month-long Amerin ci have experienced versns of nights like the Stonewall Inn, tim history when police have btaly targeted the gay muny by enforcg discrimatory laws and Oregon, police raids of gay and lbian bars were mon well to the 1970′s.
Most notably 1992, when she helped lead the mpaign that feated the vicly anti-gay Ballot Measure activist, Kathleen Saadat, helped anize Portland, Oregon's first gay rights march.
MOVG TO GAY OREGON? THG TO KNOW BEFORE RELOTG HERE AS AN LGBT PERSON.
”But at this particular moment, she’s tryg to remember a day 1976, when she and a few others anized Portland’s first gay rights march. “We were marchg along and dog chants, beg sred and seeg people on the siwalk who we knew were gay or lbian, but who were aaid to jo the march, ” says Saadat. Each time more and more people what started as a very tense gay rights march, that many were too sred to attend, beme an annual part of Portland’s Pri celebratn.
Vance / OPBDpe all of the much-need celebratn, Saadat still thks the gay muny needs to stay engaged as polil activists.
Past and prent lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) movements have foced on eedom and equal opportuny. The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar loted Greenwich Village, New York, was vlently raid June of 1969 by New York Cy police.
OREGON GAY RIGHTS REPORT (PORTLAND TOWN COUNCIL, PORTLAND, OR) [NEWSLETTER]: V. 5, NO. 10 (OCTOBER 1979) - V. 8, NO. 5 (OCTOBER 1982), PLETE.
This event led to the formatn of activist groups such as the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF) and the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA). Bars were regularly raid by police; people spected of beg homosexual were often beaten or thrown jail; men and women risked losg their jobs if their sexualy was disvered. Until 1973, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn nsired homosexualy to be a mental illns.
Before the emergence of LGBT activism, most gay men and lbians had ltle muny or personal support and no legal protectn of their rights. The Dall, Oregon was home to one of Oregon’s first gay activists, Marie Equi. The Portland Gay Liberatn Front was born 1970.
A lol newspaper, The Willamette Bridge, refed to n an ad placed by a young gay man the personals sectn of the classifieds. Openly gay Bridge staff member John Wilkson challenged the cisn wh a letter the newspaper statg that gay people need to be able to meet each other a ls secretive way.