Reflectg on Queer Cema's Goln Age: The Gay '90s

Contents:

•  MNEAPOLIS' VLENT VIO SHOWS POLICE HORSE BEG ASSLTED OUTSI GAY 90S BAR
• PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI
• 2 CHARGED DOWNTOWN SHOOTG OUTSI GAY 90S
• “VIO POSTED ONLE SHOWS THE CHAOS OUTSI THE GAY 90S BAR DOWNTOWN MNEAPOLIS ON SATURDAY NIGHT AS CRIME THE CY NTU TO SPIRAL OUT OF NTROL.”
• CHARG: MAN SHOT 2 AFTER DISPUTE NEAR GAY 90S
• EARLY MORNG SHOOTG NEAR GAY 90S LEAV TWO JURED

 MNEAPOLIS' VLENT VIO SHOWS POLICE HORSE BEG ASSLTED OUTSI GAY 90S BAR

The cint, that took place outsi The Gay 90s on Saturday night, October 15, also showed a police horse beg assualted and the officers yellg, “Don’t touch my horse.

It was also pletely chaotic outsi the Gay 90s; there have been multiple shootgs near there the last few months alone, " she add and further said, "One night Mneapolis. In the oln days, the word "gay" meant "happy." No one seemed happy as chaos unfold outsi of Mneapolis gay bar The Gay 90s.

PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI

Also unclear is if Mnota Attorney General Keh Ellison is gog to prs charg agast The Gay 90s for allowg crime outsi of their bs. Vio posted onle shows the chaotic scene unfold outsi The Gay 90s bar on Saturday night where girls were filmed twerkg on top of rs and yellg at a police horse as an officer tried to break up a fight volvg a group of men.

' Vio posted onle shows a group of men assltg a victim the street outsi a gay bar As the victim tried to get up, one of the men kicked him the face Saturday night Another scene shows women cursg out a police horse after officers tried to dissemble a fightThe altertn me amid other scen of bchery outsi the bar Saturday night, wh one man clearly beg asslted as the shockg footage begs. 'It was also pletely chaotic outsi the Gay 90s; there have been multiple shootgs near there the last few months alone. ' The asslt victim was seen Saturday night lyg the middle of the road as his attackers walked back to the bar Another fight broke out between a group of women outsi the Gay 90s bar Women were also filmed twerkg on top of rs that blocked traffic outsi the club EMS crews brought the asslt victim to an ambulance Saturday nightThe vio as crime the cy ntu to spiral out of ntrol the wake of the Defund the Police movement.

2 CHARGED DOWNTOWN SHOOTG OUTSI GAY 90S

Over the past week New York Cy, hundreds of homosexuals had fought police a week-long rt Greenwich Village, followg a botched police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a mafia-n bar equented by LGBTQ+ people. And secretly wh myself I cid that when I me back stati, if I should survive to e back stati, I would e out as a gay person.

“VIO POSTED ONLE SHOWS THE CHAOS OUTSI THE GAY 90S BAR DOWNTOWN MNEAPOLIS ON SATURDAY NIGHT AS CRIME THE CY NTU TO SPIRAL OUT OF NTROL.”

Followg this explosn of rage, LGBTQ+ people New York and further afield transformed the small pre-existg gay rights movement. Soon they were advotg nothg ls than “gay liberatn” nscns-raisg groups to fundraisg danc, protts outsi hostile newspapers to refug for homels trans and queer people, this surge LGBTQ+ anisg took many forms, and as the first anniversary of the rts me to view, some the muny began discsg how bt to mark what was beg regard as the “Bastille day” of gay rights.

As the gay rights movement grew, so did the march, which me to be llectively known as Gay Pri and then Pri paras. Wh a sgle lifetime, homosexualy has moved om beg a crime and a psychiatric disorr, punished the US by imprisonment, chemil stratn, social ostracisatn and a lifetime as a registered sex offenr, to a socially and legally regnised sexual inty.

CHARG: MAN SHOT 2 AFTER DISPUTE NEAR GAY 90S

To relig and cultural nservativ, Pri paras are nothg ls than the public flntg of viancy, while many LGBTQ+ people regard today’s rporate-sponsored paras as havg sold out the radil, revolutnary mands of the gay liberatn movement. Those who were key to the kickstartg of gay liberatn – trans people, people of lour and workg-class LGBTQ+ people – have gaed the least om the mastreamg of the stggle.

The roots of that bate go back to s earlit days, and suggt that Pri and the Stonewall rts have always been part of a ntent battle for inty and ownership – a battle that has helped produce the very ia of what beg a lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or queer person might Stonewall rts were not the birth of the gay rights movement. Seven years before that, when police had raid Coopers, a donut shop the cy ntled between two gay bars, LGBTQ+ patrons had attacked officers after the arrt of a number of drag queens, sex workers and gay had been a gay rights movement the US among people scribg themselv as “homophil” sce the late 40s. Hirschfeld’s scientific approach, bed wh his sympathetic treatment of LGBTQ+ people – he was himself homosexual – had been key velopg the ia that their shared experienc uld be unrstood not jt as discrete sexual (and crimal) acts, nor as psychiatric illns, but as a legible sexual and genr inty, which uld be afford civil rights.

When gay people began anisg the US after the war, they were forced to start aga om first prcipl, wh only a vague awarens of Hirschfeld’s Hirschfeld, an early mpaigner for gay rights. Photograph: Getty ImagIn Los Angel 1950, a group of experienced polil activists and munists, cludg Communist party USA member Harry Hay, me together to form the Mattache Society, one of the first homosexual rights anisatns the US. ) The Mattache Society had radil roots activism, takg on the anisatnal stcture of cells and central anisatn favoured by the Communist well as publishg magaz for gay men, and supportg victims of police entrapment, the society had wir polil aims, cludg to “unify homosexuals isolated om their own kd” and to “te homosexuals and heterosexuals toward an ethil homosexual culture parallelg the cultur of the Negro, Mexin and Jewish peopl”.

EARLY MORNG SHOOTG NEAR GAY 90S LEAV TWO JURED

It wasn’t enough to fend men who had sex wh men; rather, a polil stggle uld only be waged by creatg the ia of the homosexual as an inty, the same polil mol as other mori – someone who uld regnise him or herself as part of a wir culture. Such aims would bee key to the ncept of “gay pri” some two s two s, however, would be among the harst for LGBTQ+ people US history, as the greater visibily of the homosexual inty led to a nservative backlash, and a moral panic the media that was palised upon by policians.