A look back at a major turng pot the stggle for gay rights
Contents:
- THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS
- A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY
- A HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS AMERI
THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS
Tensns are risg after Jamai refed to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat. * gay rights photo *
Began an antigay mpaign attributed to a puranil effort to clean up the cy's streets advance of the 1964 World's Fair.
The mpaign closed gay bars by systematilly revokg liquor licens and simultaneoly targeted gay men through entrapment. The mpaign was brought to an end after Mayor Ldsay entered office 1966 (partly due to lobbyg om Dick Lesch and Mattache) queens (g the language of the era) were the equent targets of the NYPD's Public Morals Sectn, which enforced all laws ncerng vice and gamblg, which also clud homosexualy.
A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY
"For the people to publicly make a statement that they were gay or lbian was this enormo risk for them — they uld have lost everythg." * gay rights photo *
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A HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS AMERI
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Gay Pri, June 1, 1983, Jill Freedman/Getty Imag.
STAR At Gay Pri Day March, June 24, 1973, Fred W. The Cy of New York recently announced the pair will be honored wh a memorial near the Stonewall se; the procs of choosg the artist is currently a failed occupatn at NYU October 1970, Rivera drafted a document (ma public by activist and wrer Rea Gossett) wh the headle, "Gay Power When Do We Want It? " It was a ll to arms aimed at the police and their relentls harassment of, "our gay brothers and sisters.
Was found to support gay people livg on the streets or dangero suatns. Makg rent was a perennial challenge; they lost the apartment after eighteen 1972, the drivg forc of the queer rights movement, now firmly unr the ntrol of whe, middle-class gays and lbians, had succeed phg trans people of lor, cludg those that had been at the foreont of the movement jt a few years earlier, to the sil.
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Her fiance and tth-tellg were met wh boos, although her fal cheer for Gay Power -- her preferred rallyg cry -- was appld.
Alliance Defendg Freedom distribut hundreds of thoands of dollars to ge groups attackg trans, gay and abortn rights * gay rights photo *
Gay Pri Rally In Washgton Square Park, July 27, 1969, Fred W. Gay & Lbian Pri Para, 1980, Arpadi/IMAGES/Getty Imag.