Gay and Lbian March on Washgton |

Contents:

• A BRIEF HISTORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS THE UNED STAT: NATNAL MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS
• MARCH FOR GAY RIGHTS; GAY MARCHERS THRONG MALL APPEAL FOR RIGHTS
• GAY AND LBIAN MARCH ON WASHGTON
• 200,000 MARCH CAPAL TO SEEK GAY RIGHTS AND MONEY FOR AIDS
• WHAT IT WAS LIKE AT THE FIRST GAY RIGHTS DEMONSTRATN OUTSI WHE HOE 50 YEARS AGO

A BRIEF HISTORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS THE UNED STAT: NATNAL MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS

Protect gay and lbian youth om any laws which are ed to discrimate agast, oppose and/or harass them their hom, schools, jobs and social environments. The divinds of dissent: how nflict and culture work lbian and gay march on Washgton, HQ76.

Marks Ridger, ed., Speakg for Our Liv: Historic Speech and Rhetoric for Gay and Lbian Rights (1892-2000), available as an eBook (2012) through Howard Universy Librari.

MARCH FOR GAY RIGHTS; GAY MARCHERS THRONG MALL APPEAL FOR RIGHTS

Thirty years later, a siar march left om San Francis, 8, 200 away, to the arrival pot 14, 1979, Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights—125, 000Unr the banner of “We Are Everywhere, ” on the 10th anniversary of the Stonewall rts, the first large march of LGBT rights advot drew a crowd of 125, 000.

Organized by the the Amerin Feratn of Labor and Congrs of Indtrial Organizatns (AFL-CIO), the largt US unn feratn, the prott gathered 260, 000 people cril of the ernment polici, particularly planned cuts to social 11, 1987, Send Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights—300, 000Eight years after the first LGBT rights march, a crowd double the size gathered DC.

Wa Supreme Court cisn might be 25, 1993, March on Washgton for Lbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberatn—1 lnIn the largt LGBT prott sce 1979, an timated 1 ln or more participants gathered to celebrate the queer inty and the acplishment of the equaly movement, as well as to nmn persistg 16, 1995, Milln Men March—837, 000“Black men fill pal’s mall display of uny and pri, ” tled the New York Tim, reportg on the Milln Men March. It changed s name to Gay and Lbian Pri Day 1981, and to Capal Pri 2000. Black Pri is the first official black gay pri event the Uned Stat and one of two officially regnized ftivals for the Ain Amerin LGBT muny.

GAY AND LBIAN MARCH ON WASHGTON

Although the acronym has changed recent s, LGBTQ+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer, pl other orientatns and inti) now clus anyone who is non-heterosexual, non-cisgenr, or nonbary. Colorful and joyful, Pri events memorate the gay rights movement sparked by the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg New York Cy. Frank Kameny was fired om his role at the US Army Map Service bee of his homosexual stat.

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200,000 MARCH CAPAL TO SEEK GAY RIGHTS AND MONEY FOR AIDS

Much of s planng was overseen by Bayard Rt, an openly gay nonvlent prott strategist. In the same year, Jay Fisette beme the first openly gay elected official the state of Virgia.

WHAT IT WAS LIKE AT THE FIRST GAY RIGHTS DEMONSTRATN OUTSI WHE HOE 50 YEARS AGO

The event was ially lled “Gay and Lbian Pri Month, ” but 2011, Print Barack Obama expand to clu bisexual and transgenr groups. Wh some of the most polilly and socially active LGBT muni the natn, the District has been the birthplace for many movements and anizatns, such as the Mattache Society of Washgton and the Gay Men’s Chos of Washgton, D.

Certaly, the District do not tend to be the first cy that to md when nsirg the untry’s most LGBT-iendly ci, pecially when many of the hate-filled mpaigns the 1950s that hoped to crack down on those who were gay were lnched by police and feral officials centered the District.

Dpe this, there have been several people, march, and headquarters the cy that have bolstered the polil strength of the LGBT muny, such as the Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights 1979. This two-story, red brick Colonial Revival property was once the home and office of the father of gay activism, Dr. It also served as a headquarters for gay civil rights anizg that eventually led to overturng the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn's fn of homosexualy as a mental illns.