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Contents:

• NEW YORK GAY PRI PARA MARCH TOWARD 50TH YEAR WH NEW PURPOSE
• GAY RIGHTS
• GAY MARCH 2018 AMERI STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• HOW GAY ACTIVISTS CHALLENGED THE POLICS OF CIVILY
• ABORTN, GUNS AND GAY RIGHTS ON THE DOCKET FOR SUPREME COURT'S NEW TERM
• GAY WORKERS PROTECTED UNR CIVIL RIGHTS ACT ACRDG TO NEW COURT RULG
• AS INDIA AWAS A HISTORIC GAY RIGHTS LG, A CY HOLDS S FIRST PRI MARCH
• PORTLAND’S FIRST GAY RIGHTS MARCH

NEW YORK GAY PRI PARA MARCH TOWARD 50TH YEAR WH NEW PURPOSE

You would be hard prsed to fd a recent Brish law more ntroversial and more reviled than sectn 28 of the Lol Government Act the late 80s, the gay and lbian people of the UK were loudly mandg equaly, much to the chagr of tradnalists. Sectn 28 was the Conservative ernment’s rponse; Margaret Thatcher’s answer to those who believed “they have an alienable right to be gay” vaguely word law prohibed lol thori and schools om “promotg” homosexualy and prevented uncils om fundg much-need lbian and gay iativ.

At a time when gay people were stgglg to pe wh the Aids epimic, was a llo attempt to supprs an already margalised Conservative policians, sectn 28 was an easy, short-term w. ’ Photograph: Joel GoodmanAt the time that sectn 28 was beg discsed parliament, I was one of Manchter cy uncil’s gay men’s officers, workg on issu such as employment, service livery and velopg muny groups.

GAY RIGHTS

I had also helped to set up the North Wt Campaign for Lbian and Gay Equaly, the group rponsible for orchtratg the Manchter had a secret office the town hall attic where more than 100 people would meet every week. The gay scene was que small and I knew the owners of the lol venu went to the gay bars and clubs – such as New Unn, Rembrandt, the Thompsons Arms and Napoleon – where the owners agreed to stop the mic so that we uld speak about the march and sectn 28.

GAY MARCH 2018 AMERI STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

Twenty thoand turned up for the march, and revalised the gay movement the TempleOn 23 May 1988, the eveng before sectn 28 me to force, lbian activists stormed the BBC News stud where Sue Lawley was midway through the Six O’Clock News. What was brilliant, though, was that my school turned out to be 100% supportive and that I had the support of straight teachers and the Hargey branch of the Natnal Unn of Teachers, which always stood up for gay teachers natnally.

And, of urse, had a terrible effect on young people: stunts suffered homophobic abe silence and teachers and schools did nothg about sectn 28 ma me more ut, however, didn’t stop me om takg up issu to do wh sexual liberatn or equaly.

I remember one stunt dog a prentatn on the difference between HIV and Aids to dispel the myths about the ia was a “gay plague”, which ed major tert among the stunts. History has vdited those who fought agast this legislatn that enshred bigotry and PowerFound 1987, the weekly Pk Paper helped to mobilise lbian and gay rears agast sectn 28.

HOW GAY ACTIVISTS CHALLENGED THE POLICS OF CIVILY

What we had at the time was a gay movement that was very good at fightg among self and very good at batg polil pots – but wh no history of makg alli wh the wir world and no effective lobbyg Power … ‘Sectn 28 brought what we lled the scene queens together wh the polil. A tachment of “black dyk on trik” were to the fore as the New York pri march began on Sunday, a year short of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, the event now agreed to have created the morn gay rights 2018 march was led by the tennis legend Billie Jean Kg and the transgenr advote Tyler Ford. The actor Cynthia Nixon, a ntenr to be ernor of New York state, was prent, as was her rival Andrew Cuomo, as thoands of marchers rabow lors celebrated LGBT inty Greenwich Village and up the nyon of Fifth marchers said that the gay movement had begun to fd a new purpose, after a succsn of legislative victori removed many of the most overt aspects of sexual or genr discrimatn Amerin society.

ABORTN, GUNS AND GAY RIGHTS ON THE DOCKET FOR SUPREME COURT'S NEW TERM

” The ndidate neatly ptured the newfound purpose for a march that some say has e close recent years to beg jt another mercialised “event”, ak to Halloween or Valente’s vice-print, Mike Pence, has supported gay nversn therapy. “From the begng, gay pri has been a prott – agast police btaly, agast vlence, agast [vlence agast] LGBT people, agast black people, ’s always stood for what’s right. Photograph: Ed Helmore/the GuardianOthers, however, claimed a paradox: that by rcg the ncept of gay pri to a march, an anthem and a rabow flag for people om all sectns of society to support, a sense of muny had bee undone.

GAY WORKERS PROTECTED UNR CIVIL RIGHTS ACT ACRDG TO NEW COURT RULG

As Sylvter’s I Need You blared om a nearby boombox, Anna Thomas, 25, a bisexual woman om New Jersey, said gay pri 2018 meant the culmatn of everythg the movement had acplished.

AS INDIA AWAS A HISTORIC GAY RIGHTS LG, A CY HOLDS S FIRST PRI MARCH

Every summer the Uned Stat, the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny and alli e together for a month-long celebratn of love, diversy, acceptance and unashamed 's everythg you need to know about LGBT Pri is LGBT Pri Month? The month of June was chosen for LGBT Pri Month to memorate the rts held by members of the LGBT muny agast a police raid that took place at the Stonewall Inn New York Cy on June 28, so-lled Stonewall rts were a "tippg pot" for the gay liberatn movement the Uned Stat, acrdg to the Library of Congrs.

Army veteran, created the flag 1978 as a new symbol for the gay and lbian polil movement, at the suggtn of his iends and lleagu, cludg Harvey Milk, a San Francis cy supervisor and the first openly gay elected official California.

PORTLAND’S FIRST GAY RIGHTS MARCH

MayBlood donatns by MSMs be banned (5-year ferral) March 2018, the Government gazetted, for a two-month public nsultatn, amendments to the Standards on Asssg Donor Suabily for Blood Donatn that clud allowg gay and bisexual men who have not had sex wh another man for five years to donate blood. The Early Gay Rights Movement In 1924, Henry Gerber, a German immigrant, found Chigo the Society for Human Rights, the first documented gay rights anizatn the Uned Stat. 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.