PRESS RELEASE Rebel Satori Prs announc a new imprt focsed on prervg classic and provotive works of gay lerature and nonfictn
Contents:
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER PRI MONTH: A COMMEMORATIVE OBSERVANC LEGAL REARCH GUI
- GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- LIBRARY OF CONGRS SUBJECT HEADGS FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER AND INTERSEX (LGBTQI) TOPICS
- HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER PRI MONTH: A COMMEMORATIVE OBSERVANC LEGAL REARCH GUI
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Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer (LGBTQ) Pri Month is currently celebrated each year the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg Manhattan. The Stonewall Uprisg was a tippg pot for the Gay Liberatn Movement the Uned Stat. In the Uned Stat the last Sunday June was ially celebrated as "Gay Pri Day, " but the actual day was flexible.
The purpose of the memorative month is to regnize the impact that lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr dividuals have had on history lolly, natnally, and ternatnally.
GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
We prerve and promote classic and provotive gay lerature, nonfictn and groundbreakg tl that serve renewed attentn. * library of homosexual congress *
Gay Pri Week and March, was meant to give the muny a chance to gather together to "... Memorate the Christopher Street Uprisgs of last summer which thoands of homosexuals went to the streets to monstrate agast centuri of abe...
Om ernment hostily to employment and hog discrimatn, Mafia ntrol of Gay bars, and anti-Homosexual laws" (Christopher Street Liberatn Day Commtee Fliers, Frankl Kameny Papers).
The ncept behd the ial Pri march me om members of the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns (ERCHO), who had been anizg an annual July 4th monstratn (1965-1969) known as the "Remr Day Pickets, " at Inpennce Hall Philalphia.
LIBRARY OF CONGRS SUBJECT HEADGS FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER AND INTERSEX (LGBTQI) TOPICS
Gay rights movement, civil rights movement that advot equal rights for LGBTQ persons—that is, for lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons—and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life. * library of homosexual congress *
At the ERCHO Conference November 1969, the 13 homophile anizatns attendance voted to pass a rolutn to anize a natnal annual monstratn, to be lled Christopher Street Liberatn Day.
As members of the Mattache Society of Washgton, Frank Kameny and Lilli Vcenz participated the discsn, planng, and promotn of the first Pri along wh activists New York Cy and other homophile groups belongg to ERCHO. Watch documentary footage of the first Pri march, "Gay and Proud, " a documentary by activist Lilli Vcenz:. The Law Library of Congrs has piled guis to memorative observatns, cludg a prehensive ventory of the Public Laws, Printial Proclamatns and ngrsnal rolutns related to Lbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgenr and Queer Pri Month.
This gui serv as an troductn to Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, and other related (LGBTQ+) rourc available the Mancript Divisn of the Library of Congrs. Portras of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Amerins reprent people who ma a difference many reers and time perds. Whether or not fluenced his work as a mician is subject to bate, though settg Walt Whman’s poem, “To What You Said” Songft (1977), and featurg a gay character his opera A Quiet Place (1983), were nsired both darg and revealg when they premiered.
HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN
Library of Congrs Subject Headgs for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI) Topics * library of homosexual congress *
In 1989, Bernste cled a printial medal of honor as a prott at the Natnal Endowment of the Arts rcdg a grant for a gay-oriented AIDS art exhib; and 1990 he wrote the foreword to the book, The Vyl Closet: Gays the Mic World.
In 2011 the tate donated several hundred (prevly sealed) letters to add to the Bernste Collectn that reveal many aspects of gay life, particularly durg the 1940s – a secretive time when was personally and profsnally dangero to document or acknowledge homosexualy.