How the Mob Helped Establish NYC’s Gay Bar Scene | HISTORY

Contents:

• GAY MEN BARRED FROM JOG AKA, INC. THREATEN TO FILE DISCRIMATN LAWSU
• 12 BIGGT COMPANI WH GAY CEOS
• JOE REDBURN, FOUNR OF TWO FAMO SALT LAKE CY GAY BARS, DI HOMELS SHELTER AT 82
• HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE
• GAY LEATHER HISTORY – JULY 23, 1909: THE SECRET GAY HISTORIAN SAMUEL STEWARD (AKA PHIL ANDROS) IS BORN.
• A SECRET GAY HISTORY OF UK PNAGE: ‘THE SKILL-SET OF HOMOSEXUALS AND SPI OVERLAPPED’
• IN POWERFUL REBE OF HATE, JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY G OUT AS GAY

GAY MEN BARRED FROM JOG AKA, INC. THREATEN TO FILE DISCRIMATN LAWSU

While acceptance of LGBT people may feel like only h s stri recent years (and may still be set back), homosexualy has always been a part of Ameri. Son of Print John Adams, Charl Adams his youth beme a protégé of Friedrich von Stben and would grow fortable his own homosexualy. “I am gay and I fly the flag of pri and liberty for all of , ” Ross said, acrdg to Lanr, who says Ross revealed she was part of an unrground gay and lbian muny the late 18th century.

While servg as ambassador to France, was Frankl who reced strategist Baron Friedrich von Stben to provi his expertise to the rebelln, spe knowg the soldier’s homosexualy.

12 BIGGT COMPANI WH GAY CEOS

Of urse, AIDS activist and wrer Larry Kramer lists Frankl among the Amerin historil figur he believ were gay, so maybe Frankl was more than an ally. Senator om Alabama, William Ruf Devane Kg is nsired by many to have been the natn’s first gay vice print, acrdg to the Washgton Bla.

The only bachelor to ever be elected print of the Uned Stat, Jam Buchanan by multiple acunts engaged gay relatnships and may be remembered history as the first gay print. Members of MIAKA — Men Interted jog the exclive sorory, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inrporated — are threateng to file a lawsu claimg discrimatn and homophobia, reports.

Wh same-sex marriage now legal all parts of the UK, n sometime be easy to fet how different attus to homosexualy were the past, and how much change has taken place over the past 50 years. For hundreds of years gay people have stggled to be accepted and treated the same as people who are not fact wasn't until 1967, that two men were able to be a relatnship together whout the fear of beg stands for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr.

JOE REDBURN, FOUNR OF TWO FAMO SALT LAKE CY GAY BARS, DI HOMELS SHELTER AT 82

Sometim appears wh Q, meang queer and +, which is an clive symbol to mean 'and others' to clu people of all history month tak place Febary each year, to help te people on lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr history, as well as the history of the gay and civil rights out more about some of those who have ma an impact both om the past and prent. Alan TurgAlan Turg was not a well known figure durg his lifetime, but today he is famo and celebrated for the ccial part he played the victory over Nazi Germany was a mathematician who cracked somethg lled the Enigma , which is thought to have shortened the war by several was also a victim of mid-20th Century attus to homosexualy and 1952 was arrted bee beg homosexual was illegal Bra at this 2013 he was pardoned for this 'crime', and 2017 the ernment agreed to officially pardon men acced of 'crim' like this, meang they will no longer have a crimal pardong has e to be known as the Alan Turg 2019 Turg was named the most "inic" figure of the 20th Century and his face now appears on the £50 note.

HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE

Osr WilImage source, Napoleon Sarony/Universal History ArchiveOsr Wil is one of the famo playwrights of all time, fact, you might even have studied 'The Importance of Beg Earnt' - one of his most famo plays - at was married to a woman and had two sons, but was later acced of beg homosexual. Johnson was an Ain Amerin transgenr-rights activist, whose work the 1960s and 1970s had a huge impact on the LGBT this time, beg gay was classified as a mental illns the Uned Stat. Gay people were regularly threatened and beaten by police, and were shunned by many June 1969, when Marsha was 23 years old, police raid a gay bar New York lled The Stonewall Inn.

GAY LEATHER HISTORY – JULY 23, 1909: THE SECRET GAY HISTORIAN SAMUEL STEWARD (AKA PHIL ANDROS) IS BORN.

Allan HorsfallThe days he's often lled the grandfather of the gay rights movement, for openly mpaigng as a gay man when homosexualy was still illegal.

In 1964 Allan Horsfall and a group of iends set up the North Wt Homosexual Law Reform Commtee, even givg out his home addrs as the base for the anisatn.

A SECRET GAY HISTORY OF UK PNAGE: ‘THE SKILL-SET OF HOMOSEXUALS AND SPI OVERLAPPED’

It beme the first mpaigng anisatn outsi of London set up and n by gay men, and s work directly led to homosexualy no longer beg illegal.

Later the North Wt Commtee was transformed to the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly (CHE), which was the largt LGBT anisatn there has ever been the UK, wh more than 5, 000 members and 120 lol groups all over the untry when was at s 's role the removal of the stigma of crimaly om homosexualy remaed his crowng achievement. He began his reer as a journalist before workg for MI6, and beg prcipal of Aberystwyth was asked to jo the ernment's mtee lookg to homosexual offenc which led to the Wolfenn Report, which remend that havg a homosexual relatnship should no longer be a crimal laid the foundatns for a later law which partially crimalised male homosexualy for the first time England and Wal. Goronwy was scribed as the "most perceptive member of the mtee", and the one who succsfully argued that the mtee should take evince directly om homosexual men.

IN POWERFUL REBE OF HATE, JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY G OUT AS GAY

Gilbert Baker was an Amerin artist, gay rights activist who signed the flag to have eight strip stead of the six normally seen first ma an appearance back 1978 and has bee associated wh LGBT rights all over the world. Chris SmhImage source, Getty ImagIn 1984 Chris Smh beme the UK's first male openly gay MP and later, the first gay bet announcg that he was gay, he received a five-mute standg ovatn.

There have sce been lots of other gay bet are currently 54 LGBT MPs the Hoe of Commons, and 2015 was clared the gayt parliament the world due to s proportn of LGBT members.

Jt FashanuImage source, Getty ImagJt Fashanu was Bra's first openly gay footballer, and although 30 years have passed he remas the only male footballer to reveal his sexualy while playg profsnally the top reer was gog well, havg risen through Norwich Cy's youth ranks and 1981 he beme the untry's most expensive black player wh his £1m move to Nottgham stunned the football world 1990 by when he told a newspaper he was gay.