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Contents:

• CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
• GPOS WHATSAPP GAYS
• US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• HOW GAY ACTIVISTS CHALLENGED THE POLICS OF CIVILY
• GPOS WHATSAPP GAY
• GAY ACTIVISTS ALLIANCE ACTNS AT CY HALL
• GAY ACTIVISTS ALLIANCE ZAP AT HARPER’S MAGAZE OFFIC

CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR

A Southern California school board on Friday adopted a social studi curriculum that clus gay rights that was approved by parents and teachers after ially rejectg . “Unr the headg ‘Protts, ’ one paragraph discs gay rights California and unr the headg ‘Court Cas, ’ there are two paragraphs that discs the urt s that allowed gay marriage California. She said a supplemental rource lists Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist and polician who was assassated 1978, along wh San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne.

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The topic was aversn therapy, a form of psdoscientific nversn therapy which gay men were admistered electric shocks and other stimuli to “cure” their sexual attractn to other Silverste wasn’t there to learn.

US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT

As a leadg psychologist took the podium, Silverste hurried to the ont of the room and troduced himself as a gay activist. ” Pneered by gay liberatn activists the early 1970s, zappg bed prott wh performance tactic was ceptively simple. Activists cred wh growg their ranks, make their markFor most of s history, discrimatn and anti-gay laws were the norm the Uned Stat.

The laws were ed to jtify sweeps of spected gay bars and public parks, and LGBTQ people risked public huiatn, job loss, and even crimal prosecutn for their gay and lbian groups that emerged durg the 1950s and 1960s did publicly prott anti-LGBTQ discrimatn. But though there were some rts and noisy nontatns durg the era, protts were typilly well-mannered monstratns like the “Annual Remr, ” a yearly event at which protters bs attire quietly picketed Philalphia’s Inpennce Hall an attempt to show gay men as orrly, ntributg members of me the June 28, 1969, Stonewall uprisg. Groups alced around the untry, and one of them, the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), me up wh a simple and extremely visible form of prott: zappg.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

Fstrated that the mayor had refed to meet wh them and had avoid mentg on gay liberatn, the group took actn.

In 1971, for example, the GAA and the Dghters of Bilis, a lbian group, targeted Filifacts, a New York-based pany that performed background checks and was acced of vtigatg and targetg LGBTQ pany’s print had stated that his le of thumb for intifyg gay people was that “if looks like a duck, walks like a duck, associat only wh ducks and quacks like a duck, he is probably a duck. In ont of a live dience of 60 ln viewers, Mark Allan Segal, a member of a small group lled the Gay Rairs and an acplished zapper, jumped ont of the mera and held up a sign that said “Gays Prott CBS Prejudice. ” He was prottg major works’ pictn of LGBTQ people and the way their verage ignored thgs like gay pri paras and equaly worked: Not only did the work beg verg LGBTQ issu, but Cronke beiend Segal and began to report on the stggl and succs of the movement.

HOW GAY ACTIVISTS CHALLENGED THE POLICS OF CIVILY

Another noteworthy zap took place 1977, when activist Tom Higgs h sger and anti-gay rights mpaigner Ana Bryant the face wh a strawberry-rhubarb pie durg a prs nference D Mo, Iowa. Bryant rpond by kneelg prayer and askg God to liver Higgs om his “viancy”; a satisfied Higgs told a Gay Communy News rrponnt that “There is nothg more huiatg than gettg a pie your face.

Between 1969 and 1973, groups like the GAA spired the formatn of nearly 800 gay and lbian groups, polil scientist Matthew D. Hdman not; by the end of the 1970s, there were more than 2, then, however, zaps had mostly fad away as movement lears, facg public cricism and fightg over ant prott tactics, began to ph for LGBTQ rights on a natnal sle through anizatns like the Natnal Gay Task Force (now the Natnal LGBTQ Task Force) legacy lived on, however, and the tactic was revived the late 1980s, when participants the AIDS Coaln to Unleash Power (ACT UP) began a seri of powerfully disptive monstratns that drew upon zap tactics.

History the 1970s, and 1977 led the “Save Our Children” mpaign and a vote that repealed Miami-Da’s gay rights ordance. Bryant was one of the first people to be publilly “pied” as a polil act at a news prs nference answerg qutns about her csa agast gay rights 1977.

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The Gay Activists York Mayor John Ldsay was a equent target of GAA zaps, wh the GAA urgg Ldsay to take a stance on gay rights issu.

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He refed to speak publilly about gay rights and refed to meet wh the GAA to discs a cywi anti-discrimatn ordance for fear would hurt his polil standg as a liberal Republin, and his future chanc at the Princy. The group filtrated the openg night of the 1970 Metropolan Opera season and shouted gay rights chants as the mayor and his wife entered. The owner put up more signs wh the phrase ma out of rdboard, harassed gay ctomers and refed service, and eventually asslted a ctomer.

GAY ACTIVISTS ALLIANCE ZAP AT HARPER’S MAGAZE OFFIC

4) Gays Prott CBS PrejudiceMark Segal, now the publisher of the Philalphia Gay News, planned a zap on the Eveng News wh Walter Cronke as a 23-year-old member of the Gay Rairs 1973.

Segal leapt ont of the mera wh a sign readg “GAYS PROTEST CBS PREJUDICE” to prott the harmful pictns of gays and lbians on CBS shows. Cronke discsed the reasons for the zap wh Segal and examed whether or not he was censorg gay and lbian news stori on his program.

5) ACT UP’s Die-In on Wall StreetThe direct actn group AIDS Coaln To Unleash Power (ACT UP) adopted zap-like forms of direct actn remiscent of those employed by the Gay Activists Alliance. Kev Maxen, an assistant ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, ma sports history after publicly g out as gay.