Thgs To Do DC This Weekend March 10-13: See the Gay Men’s Chos Perform at Lln Theatre - Washgtonian

Contents:

• A BRIEF HISTORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS THE UNED STAT: NATNAL MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS
• WASHGTON, D.C.'S HIDN GAY HISTORY IS UNVERED 'SECRET CY'
• THGS TO DO DC THIS WEEKEND MARCH 10-13: SEE THE GAY MEN’S CHOS PERFORM AT LLN THEATRE
• GAY RIGHTS MARCHERS PRS CSE WASHGTON
• GAY AND LBIAN MARCH ON WASHGTON
• GAY PARTI AND EVENTS WASHGTON DC

A BRIEF HISTORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS THE UNED STAT: NATNAL MARCH ON WASHGTON FOR LBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS

Protect gay and lbian youth om any laws which are ed to discrimate agast, oppose and/or harass them their hom, schools, jobs and social environments. Marks Ridger, ed., Speakg for Our Liv: Historic Speech and Rhetoric for Gay and Lbian Rights (1892-2000), available as an eBook (2012) through Howard Universy Librari.

“Secret Cy: The Hidn History of Gay Washgton, " by Jam Kirchick, is a 654-page tome that took years of rearch and an exhstive vtigatn to printial archiv, historil terviews and once-classified ernment rerds. “I realized that all the stori I was readg, and the personali and phenomena, whether was McCarthyism or the Reagans, FDR or JFK, that there were the gay stori lurkg the background, ” Kirchick said. Those stori lurked the background out of necsy: The st of g out as gay — or, more likely, beg outed agast one’s will — was enormo profsnally and socially.

“It was the specter of homosexualy that provoked the first and only suici by a member of Congrs his Capol Hill office, ed Lyndon Johnson to et that his historil lead would evaporate, and seized the paranoid md of Richard Nixon send only to the plots of his ever-expandg enemi list, ” Kirchick wr.

WASHGTON, D.C.'S HIDN GAY HISTORY IS UNVERED 'SECRET CY'

” Rumors of homosexualy were tastrophic to those who were acced of , but Kirchick also asks the rear to nsir the broar human and societal impact of such wch hunts on gay Amerins workg ernment. “To asss the full sle of the damage that the fear of homosexualy wrought on the Amerin polil landspe, one mt take to acunt not only the reers ed and the liv cut short, but somethg vaster and unquantifiable: the possibili thwarted, ” Kirchick wr. Although openly LGBTQ people have ma their way to the hight ranks of ernment today, was not long ago that spected homosexuals workg for the feral ernment were hunted down, publicly huiated and termated wh the full force of the ernment.

There were whispers that Reagan was possibly participatg “homosexual nduct, ” and some Republins saw Reagan’s potential nomatn as a “danger to the Republin Party and the untry.

The possibily that Kemp uld jo the ticket was evince that there was a “homosexual rg” around Reagan and that he was “the ventriloquized pawn of shadowy and sister forc, ” Kirchick wr. When a ngrsman later asked Reagan’s munitns ai about the loss of the nomatn for Kemp, he reportedly said, “It was that homosexual thg, ” Kirchick wr. “Secret Cy” ends wh the princy of Bill Clton, who said a mpaign speech ont of a largely gay dience Los Angel 1992, “I have a visn, and you are a part of .

THGS TO DO DC THIS WEEKEND MARCH 10-13: SEE THE GAY MEN’S CHOS PERFORM AT LLN THEATRE

” Wh those words, Clton would do somethg that would have seemed unfathomable to most, if not all, of his precsors: make an explic appeal to gay Amerins for their support a printial electn. Park Police timated the march's crowd at 200, 000 while anizatns claimed 300, 000 participants and said was the largt gay rights march history, acrdg to a New York Tim report at the time. TopletetopleteFiltersDateCategoryFormatPriceLanguageCurrencyMost popular matchSat, Aug 12 • 5:00 PM Two parti one ticket Garn party + Dance party (Indoors)DoubleTree by Hilton London KensgtonTwo parti one ticket Garn party + Dance party (Indoors)Sat, Aug 12 • 5:00 PM DoubleTree by Hilton London KensgtonFri, Sep 22 • 8:00 PM Ruby Grove // The Endorphs // When Particl Colli// Lnea's GarnThe JungleRuby Grove // The Endorphs // When Particl Colli// Lnea's GarnFri, Sep 22 • 8:00 PM The JungleSat, Aug 19 • 9:00 AM Saltbh Gatherg - Regnal Partnership - Rivera13 Kgfisher AveSaltbh Gatherg - Regnal Partnership - RiveraSat, Aug 19 • 9:00 AM 13 Kgfisher AvePromotedSaturday • 9:00 PM"Battle of the Sex" Silent Headphone Dance Party @ Exhale LoungeExhale LoungePromoted"Battle of the Sex" Silent Headphone Dance Party @ Exhale LoungeSaturday • 9:00 PMExhale LoungePromotedFri, Sep 8 • 9:00 PM Party Wh A Purpose-Autism Awarens FundraiserHard Rock CafePromotedParty Wh A Purpose-Autism Awarens FundraiserFri, Sep 8 • 9:00 PM Hard Rock CafeFri, Aug 25 • 7:00 PM + 1 moreGAY Love JonThearc TheaterGAY Love JonFri, Aug 25 • 7:00 PM + 1 moreThearc TheaterFriday • 6:00 PMBack by POPULAR DEMAND & new SHEnanigans Drag Dner w/ The Goln Gays™Crazy Aunt Helen'sBack by POPULAR DEMAND & new SHEnanigans Drag Dner w/ The Goln Gays™Friday • 6:00 PMCrazy Aunt Helen'sFri, Aug 18 • 7:00 PM LGBTQ+ Speed Friendg @ Puro GtoPuro Gto CafeLGBTQ+ Speed Friendg @ Puro GtoFri, Aug 18 • 7:00 PM Puro Gto CafeFri, Aug 4 • 7:00 PM LGBTQ+ Social @ The CommentaryThe CommentaryLGBTQ+ Social @ The CommentaryFri, Aug 4 • 7:00 PM The CommentarySaturday • 1:00 PMWET DAYS-Part IV: Pool Party - GPMC Upperclassmen Scholarship FundraiserPrivate RinceWET DAYS-Part IV: Pool Party - GPMC Upperclassmen Scholarship FundraiserSaturday • 1:00 PMPrivate RinceTuday • 7:00 PMGay Men Speed Datg Washgton DC | Fancy a Go?

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We mand passage of a lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr civil rights bill and an end to discrimatn by state and feral ernments cludg the ary; repeal of all sodomy laws and other laws that crimalize private sexual exprsn between nsentg adults. We mand legislatn to prevent discrimatn agast lbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenr people the areas of fay diversy, ctody, adoptn and foster re and that the fn of fay clus the full diversy of all fay stctur. We mand full and equal cln of lbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenr people the tnal system, and cln of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr studi multicultural curricula.

GAY AND LBIAN MARCH ON WASHGTON

Wh some of the most polilly and socially active LGBT muni the natn, the District has been the birthplace for many movements and anizatns, such as the Mattache Society of Washgton and the Gay Men’s Chos of Washgton, D. Certaly, the District do not tend to be the first cy that to md when nsirg the untry’s most LGBT-iendly ci, pecially when many of the hate-filled mpaigns the 1950s that hoped to crack down on those who were gay were lnched by police and feral officials centered the District.

Dpe this, there have been several people, march, and headquarters the cy that have bolstered the polil strength of the LGBT muny, such as the Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights 1979. It also served as a headquarters for gay civil rights anizg that eventually led to overturng the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn's fn of homosexualy as a mental illns. Bullough’s “Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lbian Rights Historil Context” publitn, Kameny is scribed as "one of the most signifint figur" the Amerin gay rights movement.

” Here, participants clud pneerg gay rights activists John Richard “Jack” Nichols, who -found the Mattache Society of Washgton, and Lilli Vcenz, who was the first lbian member of the Mattache Society of Washgton. This former bookstore Dupont Circle was found 1974 by Dean Maccubb, who ntributed to the migratn of LGBT members to the Northwt neighborhood, acrdg to Frank Muzzy his book, “Gay and Lbian Washgton, D.

GAY PARTI AND EVENTS WASHGTON DC

Wh a march past the Whe Hoe, a rally near the Capol, and approximately 200, 000 people, the Send Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights on October 11, 1987 is one of D. It was at this hotel that approximately 500 LGBT people of lor gathered for the first Natnal Third World Lbian and Gay Conference October 1979. Every Fourth of July begng 1965, the Remr march—named after the need to "remd" the public of the opprsn faced by the gay muny—aimed to secure acceptance by showg how unthreateng LGBT people were to the rt of society.

One year later, 1970, activists like Brenda Howard brastormed an alternative set of march that would embrace the new ethos of gay liberatn. View of the large crowd, some of whom are holdg up handma signs and banners, participatg a gay and lbian pri para the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, 1970. One ntgent at the 1971 Christopher Street Liberatn Day was the Gay Activists Alliance, one of a nstellatn of gay liberatn groups that formed after the Stonewall Rts.

In prr years, there had not been many n-s wh the police, but sudnly officers began askg to see intifitn at the Geetown Grill and harassg gay ctomers. Craig Howell, print of the Gay Activists’ Alliance om 1973-74 reunted, “One policeman had been g repeatedly askg for var a week or so ago this took an ugly turn when the policeman brought some of his buddi and did the ual harassment, and then afterwards they stayed outsi the grill when closed down and started harassg patrons by askg them for intifitn. [4] The keynote event was a rally Lafayette Park where about 50 men and women were “llg for more public displays of affectn by homosexuals.