LGBT History: The 1953 gay raid Wa Texas - Out In Jersey

Contents:

• 2003
•  TEXAS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• LGBT HISTORY: THE 1953 GAY RAID WA TEXAS
• LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS WA, TX
• THE 1953 GAY RAID WA TEXAS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

2003

1977Gay Life WaIn 1977, The Wa Cizen put out a seri of articl tled “Gay Life Wa, ” highlightg LGB people, their liv, and their stggl. We knew about gays and my nt was a lbian, but people mostly didn’t discs even if they knew or spected who was gay. One of the anizers, another gay stunt at Baylor, was reprimand for his volvement.

“Matt Bass, 25, and other gay stunts and alumni say they don’t expect the world’s largt Baptist universy to shun the church te that homosexualy is a s, but they want an anti-discrimatn policy. Missn StatementWe work towards fosterg wh tegry and excellence a posive, open, and passnate LGBTQ+ muny Wa and surroundg areas by:Ung – lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer dividuals and alli of all backgroundsPromotg – the existence and perseverance of our muny as a munyCommemoratg – our mon and specific heragCelebratg – our mon and specific culturCore ValuIntegry– We m ourselv to ethil and hont work placg the tegry of the anizatn and all of s participants above all other valu.

“What nf me is like how we're advotg for somethg, ” said Br LaVergne, Baylor senr and print of Gamma Alpha Upsilon, or GAY Greek letters, the unofficial LGBTQ stunt group on mp. Stunts like LaVergne said while the rolutn is a step the right directn, they’re skeptil Baylor n create a group that would be palatable to queer stunts, given their unrelentg posn on issu like gay marriage.

 TEXAS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

The first time she was lled a homophobic slur happened after she posted a photo of herself on Instagram nng the Baylor flag across the field at a football game wh a Pri flag pated on her leg.

It argued Baylor’s cisn to allow a young nservative group to brg a ntroversial speaker to mp at the time, spe his homophobic and sexist views, monstrated Baylor’s unfair treatment of some stunt groups vers others. LaVergne said lears GAY have already agreed they will not jo a group where they mt provi an official stunt roster, sce some stunts do not publicly share their genr inty, or if they are subject to l or requirements that are not required for other stunt groups. They removed a ban on “homosexual acts” om s sexual nduct policy six years ago and didn’t allow dancg on mp until the mid-1990s.

LGBT HISTORY: THE 1953 GAY RAID WA TEXAS

“Maybe someday we’ll get to the pot where we don’t say ‘gay marriage’ or ‘look at that cute gay uple, ’ but jt ‘marriage’ and ‘uple, ’” Weaver said.

On Saturday, April 11, 1953, nearly 70 gay men packed to a small four-room hoe at 2117 South 19th Street Wa, Texas, about ten blocks om Baylor Universy.

LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS WA, TX

This story had mostly been lost om LGBTQ history until 2015, when Hoton LGBTQ historian JD Doyle disvered a 1988 issue of the gay magaze This Week Texas. Wa’s Gay Life 1953.

Phil Johnson scribed the Wa gay life of 1953 as small groups of closeted gay men. Johnson not that big gay parti were rare the early 1950s, so David Owen’s party vatn was eagerly accepted by gay men Wa, across Texas, out of state, and the ary. More articl om the almost fotten 1953 gay raid Wa Texas.

THE 1953 GAY RAID WA TEXAS

The Tribune also reported that “law enforcement officers have known for some time that a small cell of homosexuals has been active Wa, ” but dited the Saturday “nventn” was the first of s kd ever held the cy. Includ on the ont page was a picture of Tommy Gene Brown of Dallas, a gay man his early twenti, fully attired as the “bri. Here I had to go home and tell my pastor and my mom that I was asked to whdraw om the universy bee I was a homosexual raid at school.

A Dallas homosexual was about to be married when police broke , hled bri to Wa cy jail along wh 66 weddg guts.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

He was arrted at a homosexuals’ “nventn” Wa, Texas, which drew 125 participants (cludg GIs) om as far as N. In 1959, they moved to the more gay-iendly San Francis. Brown beme volved one of Ameri’s first gay anizatns, the Society of Individual Rights (SIR), where he helped wh the danc and stum for gay productns of The Boyiend, Pal Joey, Hello Dolly, and The Wizard of Oz.

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