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Contents:

• HOW EXCLN FROM THE MILARY STRENGTHENED GAY INTY AMERI
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• GAY RIGHTS
• GAYS THE MILARY/LGBT LAW
• PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI
• THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT

HOW EXCLN FROM THE MILARY STRENGTHENED GAY INTY AMERI

Durg one famo purge at a naval base Newport, Rho Island, Navy officials 1919 persuad enlisted men to entrap and sce spected gay sailors so they uld “obta rmatn and evince pertag to cksuckers and rectum receivers” that would be ed to urt martial and discharge gay sailors. Doctors also asked spected homosexuals on how they felt when engaged the “applitn of the mouth to the sexual an” of another guy, theorizg “te homosexuals” gave so many blowjobs they’d report they felt pleasure their mouth while their penis remaed flaccid durg fellat. Hormone tts were also troduced unr the theory that gay men would have more trogen and ls androgen than straight men, but the practice was abandoned bee rrelatg hormone levels wh sexual orientatn was “too uncerta and too expensive to try on every ductee, ” acrdg to a 1947 Newsweek article.

“In fact, the army had a sense enuraged homosexualy by makg men aware of their sexual orientatn, ” wrote sexologist Vern Bullough, who noted that the war allowed gay soldiers to meet other gay people while also wnsg their heterosexual peers practice suatnal homosexualy, which led many to nclu their same-sex behavr wasn’t all that unual. Bullough not that gay anizatns – such as the Veterans Benevolent Associatn – formed and grew after WWII bee the war gave gay people a chance to meet other gay people and realize they weren’t alone, which led to the formatn of muni and advocy groups. Instead of returng home and answerg to fearful, angry and worried fay members and acquatanc, many stayed the lotns where they had been discharged, hopg for a h start, which led to the emergence of large and visible gay muni port ci such as San Francis, Los Angel and New York.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

Although the ary discharged only a few thoand gay service members each year, those numbers eventually accumulated to about 100, 000 disenanchised veterans by the 1980s – among them several gay and lbian advot who brought creased visibily to the gay polil movement. As openly gay people were beg targeted and exclud om service durg the World Wars, the ary untentnally helped create supportive gay muni, ma many gay people aware of their orientatn and ultimately ntributed to the creatn of a gay inty Ameri. McDarrah/Getty ImagAfter pourg their drks, a bartenr Juli's Bar ref to serve John Timms, Dick Lesch, Craig Rodwell, and Randy Wicker, members of the Mattache Society who were prottg New York liquor laws that prevented servg gay ctomers, 1966, three members of the Mattache Society, an early anizatn dited to fightg for gay rights, staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s.

GAY RIGHTS

But between New York’s LGBTQ muny the 1960s beg forced to live on the outskirts of society and the Mafia’s disregard for the law, the two beme a profable, if uneasy, State Liquor Authory and the New York Police Department regularly raid bars that tered to gay patrons. Nearly 50 years ago, LGBTQ+ activists achieved what was lled the “greatt gay victory” of the time: succsfully phg members of the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA) to remove the diagnosis of homosexualy om the official classifitn of mental illns, the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM).

GAYS THE MILARY/LGBT LAW

The classifitn of mental illns was born om the legacy of multiple systems of power: the Amerin legal system crimalized homosexual behavr; feral and state ernments had not yet dified protectns for queer and trans people seekg employment and hog; and an sistence on heteronormative genr rol stigmatized anyone who viated om their role as a “woman” or a “man. “Pull your urage up by your bootstraps and disver ways which you as homosexual psychiatrists n be appropriately volved movements which attempt to change the attus of both homosexuals and heterosexuals toward homosexually, ” Fryer plead. 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.

PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI

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.

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.

THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT

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 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.