Contents:
- GAY STUNT UNN: 1983 – 1985
- THE UNIVERSY OF ALABAMA GAY STUNT UNN
- ELLIS NIED GAY STUNT UNN -SPONSORSHIP REQUT AS STUNT, ARCHIV SHOW
GAY STUNT UNN: 1983 – 1985
Our missn is to advote for, empower, and provi muny spac for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer people wh both the FSU and Tallahassee muni.
Pri Stunt Unn emerged 1969 as the People’s Coaln For Gay Rights rponse to the Stonewall Rts, known by many as the talyst of the LGBTQ+ rights movement. The People’s Coaln For Gay Rights changed s name several tim throughout the 1970s-2000s, fally beg Pri Stunt Unn 2005. The Gay Stunt Unn was ially found whout stutnal regnn by the Universy of Alabama.
THE UNIVERSY OF ALABAMA GAY STUNT UNN
The anizatn was named the Gay Stunt Unn of Tloosa before receivg formal stutnal regnn on September 6, 1983 at which pot they dropped ‘of Tloosa’ om their name. The name “Gay Stunt Unn” is a cur one. Stunts may have drawn spiratn om natnal anizatns such as the Natnal Gay Task Force or the Gay Liberatn Front.
ELLIS NIED GAY STUNT UNN -SPONSORSHIP REQUT AS STUNT, ARCHIV SHOW
Other queer stunt anizatns across Ameri were g nam like GLUE (Gays and Lbians Uned for Equaly), Pri Alliance, and Stunt Equaly Coaln. A t-shirt om the 1st anniversary of the Gay Stunt Unn at the Universy of Alabama.
Board of Visors appotee Bert Ellis nied a requt by the Gay Stunt Unn for the Universy Unn to -sponsor an event headled by pneerg gay rights activist Frank Kameny 1975, verage om The Cavalier Daily’s archiv show.
Branch of the gay rights anizatn the Mattache Society and dited the rt of his life to activism. “Years before the gay rights movement existed any wily regnized form and an era which open assertn of homosexualy uld ve physil harm, Mr. Kameny worked to crease the acceptance of gay men and lbians mastream Amerin society and to w regnn of their equaly unr the law, ” a Washgton Post obuary of Kameny followg his ath 2011 reads.