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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.

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.

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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.

GAY MARCH 2018 AMERI STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

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.

” 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.

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. 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?

HOW GAY ACTIVISTS CHALLENGED THE POLICS OF CIVILY

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. 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. 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.

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

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. ”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 1961, Illois beme the first state to do away wh s anti-sodomy laws, effectively crimalizg homosexualy, and a lol TV statn California aired the first documentary about homosexualy, lled The 1965, Dr. ”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.

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

After the Stonewall Rts, a msage was pated on the outsi of the board-up bar readg, "We homosexuals plead wh out people to please help mata peaceful and quiet nduct on the streets of the village. " 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. ”Over the next several nights, gay activists ntued to gather near the Stonewall, takg advantage of the moment to spread rmatn and build the muny that would fuel the growth of the gay rights movement.

Johnson is seen at a Gay Liberatn Front monstratn at Cy Hall New York, a large crowd memorat the 2nd anniversary of the Stonewall rts Greenwich Village of New York Cy 1971. 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. Activists also turned the once-disreputable Pk Triangle to a symbol of gay Polil Victori The creased visibily and activism of LGBTQ dividuals the 1970s helped the movement make progrs on multiple onts. 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.

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

Baker signed and stched together the first rabow flag, which he unveiled at a pri para followg year, 1979, more than 100, 000 people took part the first Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights.

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. Two years later, the first antiretroviral meditn for HIV, azidothymide (AZT), beme rights proponents held the send Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights 1987.

PORTLAND’S FIRST GAY RIGHTS MARCH

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. 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.