Early urt s, photographs, negativ, rrponnce, and newspaper articl related to the activi of the Dallas Gay Alliance om 1980-1988.
Contents:
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
- THE DALLAS GAY ALLIANCE (THE DALLAS WAY)
- GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC: A MECHANISM OF HEALTH RISK RCTN AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUTNG ADOLCENTS
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
After beg oted om the U.S. ary for beg gay, she beme an early fighter for gay rights and a proment figure the nascent L.G.B.T.Q. rights movement. * lesbian gay alliance *
LGB Alliance is a chary that supports lbian, gay and bisexual people by buildg muny, providg high qualy rmatn, beg a source of spiratn for people who feel margalised and seekg to fluence Government and cisn makers to prrise the needs and rights of same-sex attracted people.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
GALA North Texas is a 501(c)(3) nonprof mted to Celebratg Diversy and Enhancg Equaly for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer North Texans. * lesbian gay alliance *
The Alliance for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer and Qutng Youth provis mental health and re ordatn servic, learship velopment, and policy advocy that centers the liv and experienc of LGBTQ youth South Florida. We lift up LGB people by prervg their history, celebratg their achievements and by workg to create the ndns which lbian, gay and bisexual people n thrive to enjoy happy and fulfilled liv. We envisn a world where lbians, gay men, and bisexuals live ee om homophobia all social, legal, and polil spher—a world where same-sex orientatn is wily accepted, and LGB spac are both prevalent and easily accsible.
In 2023, Uptown Gay and Lbian Alliance will award scholarships to graduatg senrs om Los Angel high schools who will be gog on to four-year lleg and universi. Her discharge om the ary over her homosexualy had turned her to an Tob/The New York Public LibraryPublished July 19, 2023Updated July 23, 2023Lilli Vcenz, who beme a gay rights activist the hhed, reprsive era before the Stonewall rebelln of 1969, when such a ncept srcely existed, makg a mark as a newspaper edor, documentary filmmaker and psychotherapist voted to L.
THE DALLAS GAY ALLIANCE (THE DALLAS WAY)
* lesbian gay alliance *
She was ath, at a re facily, was nfirmed by a niece, Julia Bo, who did not specify a Vcenz’s journey to promence the nascent gay rights movement of the mid-1960s began after a personal llisn wh tolerance. In 1963, she was servg the Women’s Army Corps when a roommate outed her as gay, leadg to her discharge after only ne months took that rejectn as an opportuny to beg a fight agast jtice that would gui her for s.
Vicenz beme, by most acunts, the first lbian to picket the Whe Hoe support of equal rights for gay people as a member of the Mattache Society of Washgton, an early gay rights prott — the first of s kd, acrdg to the Library of Congrs — and others that followed were small but brought visibily to a movement s fancy. “Be wh gay people, help the movement, help unmask the li beg told about , rrect the notn of homosexualy as a sickns and prent as is, a betiful way to love. Vcenz beme the first out lbian to appear on the ver of a natnal gay magaze, The Ladr, a publitn produced by the untry’s first lbian-rights group, the Dghters of Bilis, acrdg to a retrospective on her life and reer by Lillian Farman, a historian of lbian and gay her scbbed, all-Amerin looks, Dr.
GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC: A MECHANISM OF HEALTH RISK RCTN AMONG LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUTNG ADOLCENTS
Vcenz looked like “every mother’s dream dghter, ” as Barbara Gtgs, The Ladr’s edor, put Vcenz also ntributed to the e on the other si of a mera, makg two 16-limeter films that were later hailed as signifint artifacts of the early gay rights first, tled “The Send-Largt Mory, ” documents a Mattache Society prott ont of Inpennce Hall Philalphia on July 4, morn ey, the black-and-whe film, roughly seven mut, seems anythg but seismic. “The whole notn of gay people publicly exprsg their sentiments that fashn was beyond nceptualizatn until we started dog , ” the Mattache Society’s -founr, Frankl E. ”Her send film, “Gay and Proud, ” documented the Christopher Street Liberatn Day Para 1970, a memoratn of the first anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg Manhattan.
“Gay and Proud” shows a much larger, and shaggier, gatherg of protters takg a more ant stance the para, chantg fiantly and wavg plards wh msag like “I am a lbian and I am betiful.
J., Vcenz regnized her sexualy early on, she said a 2008 terview, and “ beme paful after a while to realize that I was gay and I didn’t know anyone else who was gay. Farman’s putative hotbed, however, had a policy banng gay people om service, and she was thrown out while trag as a nropsychiatric technician at the Walter Reed ary hospal the 1970s, Dr. Vcenz ran a weekly discsn ssn lled the Gay Women’s Open Hoe, which functned as a marketplace of ias and sanctuary of sorts for lbians the Washgton area.