The Gay Rights Movement and the Cy of Seattle durg the 1970s - CyArchiv |

Contents:

• GAY NYC DANCER FATALLY STABBED WHILE VOGUG AT GAS STATN; HATE CRIME VTIGATN LNCHED
• THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND THE CY OF SEATTLE DURG THE 1970S
• GAY CY CELEBRAT OVER 25 YEARS OF SERVG SEATTLE’S LGBTQ+ MUNY
• SEATTLE'S LGBTQ+ CENTER (FORMERLY GAY CY)
• SEATTLE GAY CISE CLUBS
• GAY SEATTLE · CY GUI

GAY NYC DANCER FATALLY STABBED WHILE VOGUG AT GAS STATN; HATE CRIME VTIGATN LNCHED

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THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND THE CY OF SEATTLE DURG THE 1970S

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GAY CY CELEBRAT OVER 25 YEARS OF SERVG SEATTLE’S LGBTQ+ MUNY

Jt east of downtown, Capol Hill has long been the Seattle’s gay epicenter and home to artists, hipsters, stunts and now-famo micians, not to mentn some of the bt rtrants, bars, ffee shops, live mic venu and public parks. Non-prof social/charable anizatn whose purpose is to provi funds and servic to other non-profs wh the gay and lbian muny of Seattle and Kg County Washgton. Found 1994, NWLGHMP is an anizatn which rearch, terprets and munit the history of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people the Pacific Northwt for the purpos of study, tn and enjoyment.

The social tumults of the late 1960s general - and the battle cry of homosexual rights sound the Stonewall (New York Cy) rts of 1969 particularly - spired a nfint sense of activism among many Seattle. Intert groups like the Dorian Society, Seattle Gay Alliance, and the Lbian Rource Center mobilized this exuberance, and turned towards gag new legal regnns of their rights as municipal cizens. Concentrated on the area surroundg the morn Capol Hill neighborhood, the groups formed a re around which a nstellatn of gay-centered bs and tablishments grew, iatg the area's long-standg reputatn as the center of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) life Seattle.

SEATTLE'S LGBTQ+ CENTER (FORMERLY GAY CY)

In addn to a place to live, work, and play, this mobilizatn enabled gay and lbian activists to ga a new promence Cy polics.

Spurred on by wispread police harassment, gay rights proponents ntually agated for creased protectn agast discrimatn to be rporated to municipal law. Williams, a gay rights advote and early sponsor of the Seattle Women's Commissn, gradually garnered sufficient support for the revisn om fellow uncil-members and Mayor W Uhlman.

The Dorian Group, a loose anizatn of proment gay bsmen and activists led by Charlie Brydon, proposed a revisn of the cy's Open Hog Ordance that would make illegal for landlords and home sellers to discrimate on the basis of sexual orientatn, much as already was on the grounds of race. Sponsored by equent Dorian Group ally Councilmember Williams, the revised ordance was troduced to heated bate that lasted for over a month, wh strong opposn by the Seattle Apartment Operator's Associatn clashg agast proponents like the Seattle Gay Alliance's Tim Mayor Uhlman's announcement that he would sign the law if reached his sk, the ordance was eventually passed on Augt 4, though by a tenuo 5 to 4 vote. Started the summer of 1973, the events surroundg Pri Week were growg larger and better attend, culmatg the first Gay Pri March that was schled for 1977.

SEATTLE GAY CISE CLUBS

Mayor Uhlman, enuraged by a close polil relatnship wh Charlie Brydon, chose to memorate the para wh a historic first, officially clarg June 25 to July 1 to be Gay Pri Week the Cy of Seattle.

GAY SEATTLE · CY GUI

Lol opponents of gay rights were censed by this, which appeared to them to be clear evince of the Mayor's endorsement of what they viewed as the 'amoral' homosexual liftyle.

The anizatn Save Our Moral Ethics (SOME), found by Seattle Police officers David Est and Dennis Falk, spearhead a succsful signature drive to place an iative on the November ballot givg voters the choice to remove 'sexual orientatn' om the text of the Fair Employment and Open Hog part of a natnwi nservative reactn to gay activism's polil triumphs, SOME operated among a wave of anti-gay iative mpaigns, supported polilly and fancially by nservative activist Ana Bryant's Save Our Children group. Comg a day before the feat of the siarly-themed 'Briggs Iniative' California, the vote was hailed by many activists as a hearteng rejectn of the rurgent anti-gay sentiment reprented by groups like SOME and Save Our Children.

Not all the news was posive that month, however, as Harvey Milk, San Francis Cy Supervisor and the natn's first openly gay elected official, was sla by disgntled ex-Supervisor Dan Whe only a few weeks followg the Iniative 13, the LGBT muny ceased to pose any issu of cywi importance for several years.

By 1983, however, the growg public awarens of AIDS' vastatg impact upon Seattle's gays prompted a program of surveillance and tn by the Seattle-Kg County Department of Public Health, as well as further bate on what else should be done.