Gay Power: An Amerin Revolutn - Eisenbach, David: 9780786719341 - AbeBooks

Contents:

• GAY POWER : AN AMERIN REVOLUTN
• THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
• GAY POWER: AN AMERIN REVOLUTN
• GAY RIGHTS
• GAY POWER: AN AMERIN REVOLUTN - SOFTVER
• AMERI MOVED ON FROM ITS GAY-RIGHTS MOMENT—AND LEFT A LEGAL MS BEHD

GAY POWER : AN AMERIN REVOLUTN

LGBT Studi, Diversy, Genr and Sexualy, Polics and the Media, Social and Cultural Life, Public opn, Gay liberatn movement, Mass media, Género y Sexualidad, Gênero e Sexualida, Políti e os Mes Comunição, Políti y Meds Comunición, Vida Cultural e Social, Vida Social y Cultural, New York Cy, NYC, Cy of New York, New York, New York, New York, NY, Gay & Lbian Studi. ISBN-10: 0786719346ISBN-13: 9780786719341Edn: ReprtReleased: May 18, 2007Format: Paperback, 416 pagRelated ISBN: 9780786716333Dcriptn:The five history of how the gay rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s sparked an Amerin revolutn that transformed a pric to buy, sell, or rent ISBN 9780786719341‌‌‌Frequently Asked Qutns about Gay Power: An Amerin Revolutn You n buy the Gay Power: An Amerin Revolutn book at one of 20+ onle bookstor wh BookSuter, the webse that helps fd the bt al across the web. From the first ever gay stunt group lnched at Columbia Universy 1965 to the Gay Liberatn Front, the Gay Activist Alliance, and the vanguard anizatns that emerged om the Stonewall rts, the thor draws on archival material and dozens of firsthand acunts om dividuals who built the movement.

For unlike their precsors, this new generatn of lbians and gay men spoke as a muny, tablished polil clout wh elected officials, appeared openly on televisn and the prs as gay people, mand equal rights wh heterosexuals, and pneered prott tactics like the "zap, " which later ACT UP employed famoly durg the 1980s.

Award W Active Date: Monday, September 28, 2009 - 19:00Sort field for wners: Gay Power: An Amerin RevolutnWner Dcriptn: by David Eisenbach (Carroll & Graf)Tle of a book, article or other published em (this will display to the public): Gay Power: An Amerin RevolutnISBN of the wng em: What type of media is this wner? Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter. Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels.

THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY

Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group.

GAY POWER: AN AMERIN REVOLUTN

”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze.

Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review. That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D. ”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue.

They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn. " This sign was wrten by the Mattache Society–an early anizatn dited to fightg for gay reportg the events, The New York Daily News rorted to homophobic slurs s tailed verage, nng the headle: “Homo Nt Raid, Queen Be Are Stgg Mad.

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1 / 12: NY Daily News Archive/Getty ImagChristopher Street Liberatn Day Shortly after the Stonewall uprisg, members of the Mattache Society spl off to form the Gay Liberatn Front, a radil group that lnched public monstratns, protts and nontatns wh polil officials.

Siar groups followed, cludg the Gay Activists Alliance, Radilbians, and Street Transvt Actn Revolutnari (STAR) 1970, at the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, New York Cy muny members marched through lol streets memoratn of the event.

Addnally, several openly LGBTQ dividuals secured public office posns: Kathy Kozachenko won a seat to the Ann Harbor, Michigan, Cy Council 1974, beg the first out Amerin to be elected to public Milk, who mpaigned on a pro-gay rights platform, beme the San Francis cy supervisor 1978, beg the first openly gay man elected to a polil office asked Gilbert Baker, an artist and gay rights activist, to create an emblem that reprents the movement and would be seen as a symbol of pri.

GAY POWER: AN AMERIN REVOLUTN - SOFTVER

In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn published a report about five prevly healthy homosexual men beg fected wh a rare type of 1984, rearchers had intified the e of AIDS—the human immunoficiency vis, or HIV—and the Food and Dg Admistratn licensed the first mercial blood tt for HIV 1985. But after failg to garner enough support for such an open policy, Print Clton 1993 passed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy, which allowed gay men and women to serve the ary as long as they kept their sexualy a rights advot cried the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, as did ltle to stop people om beg discharged on the grounds of their 2011, Print Obama fulfilled a mpaign promise to repeal DADT; by that time, more than 12, 000 officers had been discharged om the ary unr DADT for refg to hi their sexualy.

AMERI MOVED ON FROM ITS GAY-RIGHTS MOMENT—AND LEFT A LEGAL MS BEHD

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was officially repealed on September 20, Marriage and Beyond In 1992, the District of Columbia passed a law that allowed gay and lbian upl to register as domtic partners, grantg them some of the rights of marriage (the cy of San Francis passed a siar ordance three years prr and California would later extend those rights to the entire state 1999) 1993, the hight urt  Hawaii led that a ban on gay marriage may go agast the state’s nstutn. In 1994, a new anti-hate-crime law allowed judg to impose harsher sentenc if a crime was motivated by a victim’s sexual Matthew Shepard ActCourty of the Matthew Shepard FoundatnMatthew Shepard, who was btally killed a hate crime 2003, gay rights proponents had another b of happy news: the U. Gay rights proponents mt also ntent wh an creasg number of “relig liberty” state laws, which allow bs to ny service to LGBTQ dividuals due to relig beliefs, as well as “bathroom laws” that prevent transgenr dividuals om g public bathrooms that don’t rrpond to their sex at birth.

Wikipedia English (9)▾Book scriptnsThe explosn of gay visibily followg the street rts at the Stonewall Inn 1969 brought, for the first time, tens of thoands of lbians and gay men out of the closets and to headle news around the world. From the first-ever gay stunt group lnched at Columbia Universy 1965 to the Gay Liberatn Front, the Gay Activist Alliance, and other vanguard anizatns that emerged om the Stonewall rts, David Eisenbach draws on archival material and numero firsthand acunts om the dividuals who built the movement. Unlike their precsors, this new generatn of lbians and gay men spoke as a muny, tablished polil clout, appeared openly on televisn and the prs, mand equal rights wh heterosexuals, and pneered prott tactics like the "zap, " which later ACT UP employed famoly the 1980s.

Before Stonewall, There Was a BookstoreNetworks of activists transformed Stonewall om an isolated event to a turng pot the stggle for gay Rodwell behd the unter at the Osr Wil Memorial Bookshop (Kay Tob / Mancripts and Archiv Divisn / The New York Public Library)Edor’s Note: This article is part of a seri about the gay-rights movement and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall July 4, 1965—four years before Stonewall—39 activists om D. Drsed formal attire—the men ats and ti, and many of the women skirts and drs—they rried signs that read Equal Treatment Before the Law and Homosexual Bill of the next four years, the anizer of that prott, Craig Rodwell, along wh his ras, Barbara Gtgs and Kay Tob Lahen, marched Philalphia.