The Castro, a televisn documentary, chronicl the dramatic saga of a muny that has bee an ternatnal symbol of gay liberatn.
Contents:
- THE STONEWALL RTS DIDN’T START THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
- GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT SUMMARY
THE STONEWALL RTS DIDN’T START THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Des of pa and perseverance San Francis's gay muny fally led to vditn the Bay Area and across the natn. This is a timele of historil events. * gay rights movement in sf *
The California Supreme Court l that gays have the right to assemble, leadg to a proliferatn of gay bars and eventually the formatn of social and polil groups San Francis’s gay muny. While the Stonewall Inn New York's Greenwich village was the se of the 1969 rts that lnched the gay rights movement, the first rerd uprisg actually began three years earlier San Francis. From 1942 to 1943, ary patrols known as the San Francis Moral Drive targeted and raid the gay bars of San Francis, claimg to be protectg servicemen om homosexuals.
GAY 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 rights movement in sf *
However, by the end of the 1940s, the gay bar scene was growg and queer bars beme not only a safe space for gay and lbian people, but also a statn for visors to the cy, who watched performanc and mgled wh the lols. Many beat poets, cludg those who were openly gay such as Allen Gsberg, me to San Francis due to the more permissive environment and aligned themselv wh LGBTQ+ groups.
The Dghters of Bilis, found 1955, was the first lbian-centred anisatn the USA, while the Mattache Society, one of the earlit gay rights anizatns the USA, beme headquartered San Francis 1956. It has bright neon rabow lights, vtage furnure, and huge wdows which display all the fun si, a tribute to beg the first gay bar to not have blackout wdows San Francis.
GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Gay rights movement, civil rights movement that advot equal rights for LGBTQ persons—that is, for lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons—and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life. * gay rights movement in sf *
The story is well known: A route police raid of a mafia-owned gay bar New York Cy sparked three nights of rts and, wh them, the global gay rights movement. But there were gay activists before that early morng of June 28, 1969, prev rebellns of LGBTQ people agast police, earlier lls for “gay power, ” and earlier rts. The story of how this particular night and this particular bar me to signify global gay rebelln is a story of how llective memory works and how social movements anize to memorate their gas.
HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
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Crage tail four prev police raids on gay bars ci across the Uned Stat that prompted activist rpons—and lol gas—but that eher fad om lol memory, did not spire memoratns that lasted, or did not motivate activists other ci.
For example, San Francis activists mobilized rponse to police raids on gay bars the early 1960s, which me to a head durg a raid on a New Year’s Eve ball 1965 that eventually brought down the police missner.
GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT SUMMARY
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The cy’s gay tablishment did not participate, however, and distanced themselv om the transgenr and street youths and their polil anizatn, Vanguard, behd the “vlent” prott. C., LGBTQ veterans chose the Pentagon as their place to picket, makg onto natnal televisn wh signs readg, “Homosexual cizens want to serve their untry too.
San Francis was the first cy to elect an openly gay man to public office. The Castro district gave birth to the LGBT civil rights movement. LGBT... * gay rights movement in sf *
There was an annual monstratn for gay civil rights before Stonewall, however, and provis the bt example of how gay polics were growg and changg before the rts.
The June 1969 Stonewall rts New York sparked the gay rights movement. But three years earlier, unrt San Francis marked the transgenr muny's public but the rights stggle. * gay rights movement in sf *
The “Annual Remrs” were the rult of ordatn by activists New York, Washgton, and Philalphia, evince of burgeong regnal operatn by gay rights activists the 1960s. The ordated march Los Angel, New York, and Chigo 1970 were the first gay pri paras, and sparked an ia that spread around the untry—to 116 ci the Uned Stat and 30 untri around the world. As Armstrong and Crage have wrten, “whout the existence of homophile anizatns elsewhere, many of them found only the late 1960s, a natnal event would have been unthkable.
” Stonewall was an “achievement of gay liberatn, ” and not s e, and an achievement of llective memory and llective actn, if not the first LGBTQ rt or prott.