Wrg Gay History | The Natnal Endowment for the Humani

Contents:

• “GAY IS GOOD”
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER (LGBTQ) STUDI
• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• WRG GAY HISTORY
• THE GAY ORAL HISTORY PROJECT ZIMBABWE: BLACK EMPOWERMENT, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND THE REARCH PROCS*
• MERRILL C. GAY ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW

“GAY IS GOOD”

We prerve gay, queer, and trans life stori, g new methodologi digal history, llaborative rearch, and archival practice.

My doctoral project on the history of gay perdils led me to a number of the reposori, which clud both physil and onle spac. Lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer inti have historilly been regard as beg different or shameful and so do not feature to any signifint gree the archiv or the history books.

This is bee queer muni didn’t tend to keep letters, diari etc se they fell to the wrong hands and few ‘selfi’ were taken gay bars back the day for the same a rult, a major way for queer muni to pture and rerd their herage is through the llectn of oral history ttimoni where an dividual’s lived experience n be accsed by enuragg them to talk about a specific time, suatn, issue or circumstance om their approach provis accs to LGBTQ rellectn and a means to clu this material to the archiv.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER (LGBTQ) STUDI

In 2015, Tom Kfhold started the NH Seaast LGBT History Project to “rearch, document, and prerve the history of gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr people on the Seaast of New Hampshire wh emphasis on Portsmouth” (NH Seaast LGBT History Project, 2021). Above all, the exhib honored the fiftieth anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Rts, which took place after an unjt police raid of a popular gay bar New York Cy. She reced the terviewe, also referred to as narrators, by advertisg through posters and viss to lol LGBTQ+ social groups, such as Seaast Gay Men.

” However, she also spoke about the Gay Stunts Organizatn which UNH officially regnized 1973, but was then forced to whdraw regnn by s board of tste and the New Hampshire ernor. The se was cid the Gay Stunts Organizatn’s favor December 1974, and this cisn was upheld by the state supreme urt October 1975.

Joseph Murphy spoke about his alholism and how impacted his journey of self-love and acceptance as a gay man growg up the 1960s.

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

He also spoke about his membership Seaast Gay Men, a social group for gay men the area formed 1979, and Gay Alholics Anonymo.

Murphy stated he attend the support groups “religly, ” bee he was able to meet other gay men wh very siar experienc. Unfortunately, the two never had an official relatnship due to Stiefel’s stggle to e to terms wh his sexualy, which was ma worse by the overwhelmg homophobia of the time.

WRG GAY HISTORY

Childhood Michigan; move to Chigo, Illois, and then to the Dallas, Texas area for llege; work for Dallas County Juvenile Department; law school San Anton, Texas; g out; volvement the Dallas Gay Alliance (DGA); AIDS epimic; work at AIDS Service of Dallas; Texas anti-gay legislatn and police raids; Village Statn arrts and trials; activism Dallas. Childhood New York Cy; awarens of sexualy; g out; llege at SUNY-Albany; move to Dallas; AIDS crisis Dallas; Dallas LGBT history; Dallas gay muny; the Dallas Voice; Dallas Buyers Club; stggle for marriage equaly and other rights; the Dallas Way LGBT history project.

Childhood Dallas-Fort Worth area; awarens of sexualy; g out; AIDS crisis Dallas; the Dallas Way LGBT history project; lol LGBT history; Dallas gay muny; recent chang legislatn. The Stonewall uprisg ign an explosn of protts and anizg that transforms a small, often tentative homophile movement to a newly assertive natnal force that mands gay liberatn and equaly.

In a Puerto Ri hotel pool, 12-year-old Eric experienc a transformatn of his our episo webpage for addnal rourc, archival photos, and a transcript of the exclive Makg Gay History bon ntent, jo our Patreon muny. While activists are monstratg, filg lawsus, and phg for anti-discrimatn laws, 16-year-old Eric is on a ferry to Fire Island, a legendary gay refuge off Long Island, wh his neighbor Rev.

THE GAY ORAL HISTORY PROJECT ZIMBABWE: BLACK EMPOWERMENT, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND THE REARCH PROCS*

Mullen—a trip that would troduce him to a vivid slice of mid-1970s gay life, ready or our episo webpage for addnal rourc, archival photos, and a transcript of the exclive Makg Gay History bon ntent, jo our Patreon muny. When Jeanne Manford’s gay son is badly beaten at a 1972 GAA prott, the shy elementary school teacher tak a stand. She founds the anizatn now known as PFLAG and lnch a movement that harns the strength of our fierct alli: parents and the other people who love our episo webpage for addnal rourc, archival photos, and a transcript of the exclive Makg Gay History bon ntent, jo our Patreon muny.

MERRILL C. GAY ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW

Gay rights activists NYC are first out of the gate to propose anti-discrimatn legislatn, nfint will sail through the Cy Council. Meanwhile, 15-year-old Eric happens upon some revelatory lerature his ntist’s wag our episo webpage for addnal rourc, archival photos, and a transcript of the exclive Makg Gay History bon ntent, jo our Patreon muny.

Mere weeks later, Ana Bryant lnch her anti-gay “Save Our Children” our episo webpage for addnal rourc, archival photos, and a transcript of the exclive Makg Gay History bon ntent, jo our Patreon muny. Vis our episo webpage for addnal rourc, archival photos, and a transcript of the exclive Makg Gay History bon ntent, jo our Patreon muny. If you are LGBTQIA+ and want to tly and thentilly know whose shoulrs you are standg on… listen to Makg Gay History.

Jt over one year later, on July 1, 1970, librarian Israel Fishman anized the first meetg of the ALA Task Force on Gay Liberatn at the ALA Annual Conference Detro. 1 A few months later, activist Barbara Gtgs, created the anizatn’s first “Gay Biblgraphy, ” plete wh the “Gay Is Good” slogan she adopted om her iend, Washgton, D. The se featur llectns that are available onle, most signifintly the Alband Collectn of Randy Shilts Materials, as well as rerdgs of the Gay Life rad seri.