Mansfield Gay Pri Associatn Para and Ftival - Dtatn Mansfield

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• GAY PRI FTIVAL HELD MANSFIELD’S SOUTH PARK
• GAY DATG MANSFIELD
• MANSFIELD GAY PRI ASSOCIATN PARA AND FTIVAL
• CASE 11: THE MANSFIELD OH GAY SEX STG OF 1962
• LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS MANSFIELD, OH
• FORMER PRINT OF THE MANSFIELD GAY PRI ASSOCIATN FOUND AD HIS HOME

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Mansfielrs have always had gay neighbors who were more or ls obv, more or ls known or wantg to be regnized as such. Certa profsns the bs of nductg a cy have always been typilly and stereotypilly staffed by gay people, and wasn’t ever really a urse every generatn you have the haters and bigots and judgmental folks who sist that everyone be jt like them.

But as far as opprsg the gay muny go was not as big a al as, say, Italians and Pol the 1890s, or Ain-Amerins the 1910s, or even Irish the 1860s.

GAY PRI FTIVAL HELD MANSFIELD’S SOUTH PARK

Gays were jt another cultural mory that were part of the meltg 1But 1962, Ameri had jt e through a of very nasty wch-huntg for Communists; scientists were droppg atomic bombs the Pacific and talkg about how many lns of Amerins our enemi uld kill wh siar bombs.

GAY DATG MANSFIELD

Durg the ensug months there were 39 trials and — nvicted by home movi — the gay felons were sent off to Lima State Instutn for the Insane to be evaluated for their level of viancy.

50 years laterTo regnize who we are today by lookg at who we once were, is appropriate to acknowledge that Mansfield has historilly done s share of shamg gay people. The oppose of shame is is signifint that Mansfield’s first Gay Pri celebratn, held 2015, was anized by a mtee of young adults who were born long after the cy buried the Central Park rtrooms. It is signifint that Mansfield’s first Gay Pri celebratn, held 2015, was anized by a mtee of young adults who were born long after the cy buried the Central Park rtrooms.

MANSFIELD GAY PRI ASSOCIATN PARA AND FTIVAL

MANSFIELD, Oh — Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) dividuals, along wh fay, iends, and supporters gathered Saturday for a ftival and para South Park off Brkerhoff Avenue Coordator Ricky Leimeister said Saturday’s event was Mansfield’s first Gay Pri event, and important for the rpective muny. We know that a lot of the stigma agast beg gay om relign — and obvly we don’t support relign, ” said Print Ron Stephens. In this paper, I exame a succsn of am nstcted for this story, their rpective sponsors, and the ame elements whose shared meang unrli the temporal nstctns of “gay, ” “homosexual, ” and “queer.

CASE 11: THE MANSFIELD OH GAY SEX STG OF 1962

Supreme Court cisns the late 1950s and early 1960s enabled distributn of homophile publitns, cludg those ntag gay male eroti (Watson, 2006). And the days of rts outsi the Greenwich Village’s Stonewall Inn the summer of 1969 are almost universally nsired to have signaled the start of the morn gay liberatn movement the Uned Stat and other wtern societi.

LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS MANSFIELD, OH

But Augt of 1962 when Mansfield police staged their public rtroom stg operatn, the cultural view of gays rooted the 1950s prevailed.

Most equently, gays were reprented by quot om policians and medil experts as sex perverts the same class wh rapists, sadists, and pedophil.

Journalists themselv generally avoid ntact wh lbians and gays and did not e them as sourc, bee they did not want to be perceived as pro-gay or munist. [1]The associatn between gays and their alli and munism appears to have two sourc: the liberatn iology of some early lears of the homophile Mattache Society, and the McCarthy-era belief … Contue readg De Jong argu the news media of the perd were plic the negative portrayal of gays, sce they never qutned policians’ negative statements about them.

FORMER PRINT OF THE MANSFIELD GAY PRI ASSOCIATN FOUND AD HIS HOME

Generally speakg, then, lbians and gays were amed as “others, ” which allowed society’s domant groups to perceive those who do not nform to cultural norms as a threat to social stabily ( Jong, 2006).