ONE, Inc. was an early gay rights anisatn the USA. The ia for a publitn dited to homosexuals emerged om a Mattache Society discsn meetg held on October 15, 1952. ONE Magaze’s first edors clud founrs of Mattache Societyand also The Knights of the Clock, a support group for terracial gay upl that had begun Los Angel 1950. ONE Inc.’s…
Contents:
- ONE: THE FIRST GAY MAGAZE THE UNED STAT
- GAY RIGHTS
- GAY HISTORY: ONE, INC.
- GAY PRI
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
ONE: THE FIRST GAY MAGAZE THE UNED STAT
The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage. * one gay history *
It’s stunng, now, to have a rource that so plaly documents the spiral and promise of a long fight, down to advertisements om gay European magaz and hts at genue tersectnal support, for example the ocsnal appearance of Marv Edwards, a Black acuntant who was the lover of ONE -founr W. On the first page of ONE’s first anniversary issue, which is also the first edn available through JSTOR, the magaze stated that “ONE do not claim that homosexuals are better or worse than anyone else, that they are special any but one sense.
GAY RIGHTS
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On the whole, ONE do actively work to be tersectnal, but bee s thors were largely whe and middle-class, spe the obv prejudic gay Amerins faced durg the tim particular, there are still some tone-af moments. A 1965 profile of “an Amerin Indian homosexual named Elmer Gage” go to Elmer Colorado, publish signifint oral histori, and is aware of s otherns, and a 1959 “Report om New York” si-ey Jack Kerouac’s “rather sperate ncern” over his masculy, but that same article also lls Frank O’Hara “disappotgly stologil, ” and do not stop.
Due to the foc on cizenship, ONE featur pecially extensive articl and se studi ncerng marriage and war, pecially the draft and police, who are lled “the new Nazis” a 1963 issue that also celebrated the 1957 Wolfenn Report, which stated that “homosexualy nnot legimately be regard as disease, bee many s is the only symptom.
GAY HISTORY: ONE, INC.
Gay Pri, annual celebratn, ually June the Uned Stat and sometim at other tim other untri, of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) inty. Gay Pri memorat the Stonewall rts New York Cy of June 28, 1969. * one gay history *
Kearful also criciz homosexuals for not fightg back, and says “the Negro has won civil rights the last few years” [sic on all unts], “not bee the Uned Stat Government is eedom-lovg and benevolent (which is not) but bee through agatn, sacrifice, and anized effort, Negro have forced society to regnize them and give them their rights.
GAY PRI
” He then tak a plited step backwards, statg that bee “the Homophile Movement reprents another sort of revolt, ” “such eptns” will “never be necsary, ” as many magaz now “eely publish homophile views, ” and the wave of social change unrway assum “no Watts explosns are gog to be need, or likely to occur.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter. Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group.
”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze.
RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN
Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review. That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D.
In 1961, Illois beme the first state to do away wh s anti-sodomy laws, effectively crimalizg homosexualy, and a lol TV statn California aired the first documentary about homosexualy, lled The 1965, Dr.