This teractive map shows how different untri have crimalized, crimalized (and a few s recrimalized), beg gay throughout morn history. Startg 1799, the map tells a poignant tale of how lonizatn spread homophobic legislatn to many parts of the world. Use the sli at the bottom to speed through history and watch as succsive wav of change affect untry after untry.
Contents:
- THE ROLE OF GAY MEN AND LBIANS THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- GAY REPARATNS ARE PAST DUE
- THE HISTORY OF THE RIGHT TO LOVE (IF YOU’RE GAY)
- THE CASE FOR GAY REPARATN
THE ROLE OF GAY MEN AND LBIANS THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
The Stonewall Rts, also lled the Stonewall Uprisg, took place on June 28, 1969, New York Cy, after police raid the Stonewall Inn, a lol gay club. The raid sparked a rt among bar patrons and neighborhood rints as police hled employe and patrons out of the bar, leadg to six days of protts and vlent clash. The Stonewall Rts served as a talyst for the gay rights movement. * gay reconstruction *
The 20th century saw a wave of anized activism to secure civil rights and eedoms for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) people. In the years after World War II, activists across the natn formed anizatns, cludg the Mattache Society and the Dghters of Bilis, to mpaign for civil rights for gay men and lbians.
In the ensug s, lbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgenr people anized and fought on many onts for equaly and civil rights, cludg rights to employment, ary service, and marriage. Our procr primarily foc on the health, smetics, and fort of today’s morn homosexual male, but we ter to people of all genrs and sexuali. Goldste started to analyze his client’s ma issu and realized most of them stemmed om seeg non-LGBT-sensive surgeons or provirs that lacked the te knowledge and unrstandg of gay sex.
Baldw’s life illumat not jt the tersectn between gay rights and civil rights, but perhaps more important, the nnectns among self-intifitn, artistic exprsn and polil activism.
GAY REPARATNS ARE PAST DUE
Ain Amerin lerary cric and profsor Henry Louis Gat once reflected that the Harlem Renaissance was “surely as gay as was Black, not that was exclively eher of the. From the start of his profsnal sgg reer at the Hot-Cha, Daniels built a voted followg of gay fans wh his sophistited rendns of jazz standards and showtun. The Stonewall Rts, also lled the Stonewall Uprisg, began the early hours of June 28, 1969 when New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay club loted Greenwich Village New York Cy.
THE HISTORY OF THE RIGHT TO LOVE (IF YOU’RE GAY)
For stance, solicatn of same-sex relatns was illegal New York such reasons, LGBT dividuals flocked to gay bars and clubs, plac of refuge where they uld exprs themselv openly and socialize whout worry.
However, the New York State Liquor Authory penalized and shut down tablishments that served alhol to known or spected LGBT dividuals, argug that the mere gatherg of homosexuals was “disorrly. But engagg gay behavr public (holdg hands, kissg or dancg wh someone of the same sex) was still illegal, so police harassment of gay bars ntued and many bars still operated whout liquor licens— part bee they were owned by the Rights Before StonewallThe first documented U.
Police raids forced them to disband 1925, but not before they had published several issu of their newsletter, “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter. In 1966, three years before Stonewall, members of The Mattache Society, an anizatn dited to gay rights, staged a “sip-” where they openly clared their sexualy at taverns, darg staff to turn them away and sug tablishments who did. When The Commissn on Human Rights led that gay dividuals had the right to be served bars, police raids were temporarily Stonewall Inn The crime syndite saw prof terg to shunned gay clientele, and by the mid-1960s, the Genove crime fay ntrolled most Greenwich Village gay bars.
THE CASE FOR GAY REPARATN
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