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actually-a-dyke · 2 years

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Gay Activist Alliance protest march, August 1971. Photo by Diana Davies

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gaa-marie · 12 days

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We're currently zapping City Hall Park to demand a stop to discrimination against LGBTQ+ citizens. Come join us! Everyone deserves the opportunity to be who they are without facing criticism from conservatives!

#picket #sit in #protest #lgbt rights #gay activists alliance

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commiepinkofag · 10 months

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Coors Boycott

Howard Wallace, in sunglasses, is a gay labor and peace activist who is perhaps best known as a co-founder of Pride at Work (PAW), previously named the Lesbian and Gay Labor Alliance. He was one of the founders of Bay Area Gay Liberation (BAGL) in 1975 and, with Harvey Milk, he led the Coors Beer boycott that began the same year.

Howard's activism in Denver, Colorado and in San Francisco over the last 30 years has centered on equal rights for all regardless of sexual orientation or race. He is a tireless advocate for coalition building between communities in order to forge alliances based on mutually identified goals.

📷 Howard Petrick

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sister-rosebud · 3 hours

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Dance at Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse, (1971)

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njhgc · 10 months

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Pride Month Activities from 1983

Forty years ago, the Gay Activist Alliance in Morris County (GAAMC) planned a busy slate of Pride Month activities, including an annual picnic and rally, legal defense fundraisers and support for those with AIDS, a Reclaiming Our Freedoms trip to the Statue of Liberty, and a march on Christopher Street in NYC.

This GAAMC newsletter includes a re-print of a 1971 article recounting the raid on the Stonewall Inn and subsequent riots that spurred the movement to push back against anti-gay persecution and harassment.

This series of Challenge newsletters is among the materials the History Center collects from Morris County's non-profit, cultural, religious, and business organizations.

#Pride Month #GAAMC #Gay Activist Alliance in Morris County #New Jersey history #Morris County

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filosofablogger · 11 months

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🏳️‍🌈 Celebrating PRIDE Month - Part I 🏳️‍🌈

I already had a different post on the schedule for this morning when I realized that today is June 1, the beginning of Pride Month! Where have the first five months of this year gone??? Wasn’t it just Christmas a few weeks ago? So, rather than starting out the day with this post, which is a repeat of last year’s Pride Month post with some updates and modifications, I shall post it this…

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#civil rights #Gay Activists Alliance #Genovese crime family #human rights #LGBTQ community #police brutality #Pride Month #Stonewall Inn

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amarrymeinbostonwriter · 1 year

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mycroftrh · 2 years

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Hello! This is your regular discussion of why Lawrence v Texas has “Texas” in the name

Lawrence v Texas, for those who don’t know, was the Supreme Court ruling that made gay sex/sodomy/being gay legal in the US. It was in 2003.

People generally assume that it has “Texas” in the name because Texas was, like, uniquely homophobic. This is the opposite of the case.

There were at the time FOURTEEN states with active anti-sodomy laws; Texas was one of the 14. So why was Texas the one that’s named in the ruling? It’s not because Texas was more aggressive about enforcing their law - it’s because Texan activists were well-organized, willing to sacrifice their futures, and successful.

Texan activists had tried to get a case up to the Supreme Court so that the law could be overturned for a long time.

They actually successfully overturned it once previously! A schoolteacher - the president of the Dallas Gay Alliance - deliberately got himself arrested and sacrificed his profession to try to get the law overturned, and succeeded. In NINETEEN EIGHTY-TWO. His actions were deliberately planned and managed by the DGA as well as the first state-wide LGBTQ organization, the Texas Human Rights Foundation. (If anyone happens to know that Dallas used to celebrate Pride not-in-June, this is why - it was honoring that overturn.) Unfortunately, that overturn was… re-turned.

However, Lambda Legal in alliance with a wide variety of other activist organizations were successful in 2003. The case Lawrence v Texas was based on occurred in 1998, and activists worked for the next 5 years to get it to the Supreme Court.

This involved very deliberate action at every step - even way back at the beginning, the original fine was too low to get the case to an appeals court, and they petitioned the judge to raise the fine so they could appeal.

“Texas” is in “Lawrence v Texas” not because the Texas government was unusually bad - but because Texan activists are the ones who succeeded.

#queer history #misc #mine #Texan tag

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workingclasshistory · 10 months

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On this day, 2 July 1951, transgender revolutionary icon Sylvia Rivera, of Puerto Rican and Venezuelan descent, was born in the Bronx, New York (content note: child abuse). Rejected by her family due to her "effeminate" behaviour Rivera ran away from home aged 11, and was sex trafficked in the Times Square area. In the 1960s, Rivera became involved in movements against the Vietnam war and for Black liberation, then with the Stonewall rebellion threw herself into the burgeoning gay liberation movement, taking part in activities with the Gay Liberation Front, and later the Gay Activists Alliance. With her friend Marsha P Johnson and others, she co-founded Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries, a radical group which raised money to rent an apartment to house and support homeless gay and trans young people. Much of the funding was provided by Rivera and Johnson engaging in sex work. Rivera was a critic of the more middle-class, cis gendered (i.e. not transgender) leadership of much of the gay rights movement, especially when a Gay Rights Bill which was eventually passed in 1986 omitted trans people, commenting: "They have a little backroom deal without inviting Miss Sylvia and some of the other trans activists to this backroom deal with these politicians. The deal was, 'You take them out, we’ll pass the bill'". After the suspected murder of Johnson in 1992, Rivera's life went "off the rails", according to her friend, historian Eric Marcus, and she ended up homeless again living on an abandoned pier in Manhattan and drinking heavily. She did get involved in movement again, and in 2001 relaunched STAR, renamed Street Transgender Action Revolutionaries, but she died the following year of liver cancer. Rivera is today remembered as one of the key activists who "who made sure there was a 'T' with the 'LGB…'". Learn more about the LGBT+ liberation movement in our podcast eps 25-26: https://workingclasshistory.com/2019/05/13/e21-22-the-stonewall-riots-and-pride-at-50/ https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=654512196721999&set=a.602588028581083&type=3

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communist-ojou-sama · 5 months

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I have no horse in the race of the new wave of anti-"tankie" recriminations regarding discourse about Russia, but I thought that it was a simple fact plainly observed that for example western feminists going out and doing advocacy "on behalf" of women in the global south, even women who are diaspora members of the same ethnicity as the majority ethnicity in said global south nation, is an incredibly reckless practice that endangers the actual feminist activists that live in that country full-time, and does little more than open them up to suspicion by society at large as a western fifth column.

Why, then, am I seeing it painted as patently ridiculous that the sum total effect of homonationalist rhetoric that is plastered around the internet (people in the global south have computers too, you know.) would not be to associate gay rights, at least as a rhetorical position, with the global fascist alliance that loudly trumpets it wherever they go as the symbol of their enlightenment over non-white savages?

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actually-a-dyke · 2 years

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Gay Activist Alliance Firehouse , 1971. Photo by Diana Davies.

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gaa-marie · 11 days

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They wanna refuse service because of same-sex PDA? Well we'll show them PDA! Come join our "Demonstration of Affection" at the Gold Rail Tavern on Broadway near West 111th street!! This is a common place for the queer community, so why can't we utilize it as fairly as straight people? Let's make a difference!

#1970s #gay activists alliance #discrimination #lgbtqia

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commiepinkofag · 9 months

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A gay “kiss-in” demonstration Yonge and Bloor streets, Toronto, 17 July 1976

L to R: David Foreman, Tim McCaskell, Ed Jackson, Merv Walker, David Gibson, Michael Riordon. Credit: Gerald Hannon, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, accession 1986-032/08P(35).

On February 9, 1976, gay activists Tom Field and Bill Holloway were arrested at the corner of Yonge and Bloor streets in Toronto for kissing in public. They were charged with obstructing the sidewalk and committing an indecent act. Ironically, the men had been posing for photographs for an article on homophobia to be published in the now-defunct newspaper Alternative to Alienation. …

Field and Holloway were found guilty of committing an indecent act by Judge Charles Drukarsh on July 13, 1976, and were each fined $50. The ruling infuriated Gay Alliance Toward Equality [GATE], the Body Politic, and members of the community. The need for protest was in the air, but only a very special kind of protest would do.

A few days later, on July 17, GATE and the Body Politic sponsored a kiss-in to support the right for gay people to publicly show affection. About twenty people paraded in same-sex couples at Yonge and Bloor streets, kissing as they walked. Policemen watched from the sidelines, but did not intervene. The protesters had made their point. — Donald W. McLeod

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saintflint · 1 year

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sources unknown / e.m. forster / sappho / love as an act of merciful conquer, silas denver melvin. / seattle, washington (2015) / 09 – 02 – 21, joel atlas. / julian k. jarboe / harley weir / a light inside, danielle villasana / feb 2, elle emerson. / there are trans people here, h. melts / sylvia rivera marching with members of STAR at an NYU gay activist alliance protest (1970) / angels in america, tony kushner / original artwork, charlie droptheguillotineplease.

#dedicated to all my beloved friends & trans family i’ve found here. the world would be incomplete without you.#creations #(*)

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nerdygaymormon · 10 months

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Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈

I want to wish a Happy Pride to:

Violets, “the Lesbian flower”

Sappho (c. 630-c.570), the Greek poet who lived on the island of Lesbos, often referenced violets in her ancient poems, thus creating a connection with female love, and this coded association endured for centuries. In fact, in 1927 the New York City district attorney’s office shut down the Broadway play The Captive because a female character in the play sent a bunch of violets to another female character, creating a big scandal

Crop Tops

Crop tops used to be associated with sports and were a popular option for manly, athletic men. However, the fashion of 1990′s and early 2000’s was dominated by loose and baggy clothing. Crop tops, which had once been viewed as hyper-masculine, came to be seen as more feminine and a fashion statement, which made straight men reject the crop tops and gay men embrace them.

Pirates

Back in the Golden Era of Piracy (1650-1730s), homosexuality was highly stigmatized on land and illegal in most places. However, piracy was known for rejecting societal standards and expectations. Queer relationships at sea were not uncommon, and pirates even had their own form of domestic partnership called matelotage. If you want to learn more, there are many pirates to choose from, but you can start with these: Anne Bonny, Mary Read, John “Calico Jack” Rackham, and Pierre “the pansy pirate” Bouspet.

Carabiners

Carabiners are a steel loop designed for rock climbers because they can easily be opened with one hand, which is useful when hanging on by the other hand. This practical tool for carrying around equipment was adopted by working-class people to carry keys. In World War II, a large number of women entered the workforce, and those who went into manual labor were usually more butch than femme. More traditionally feminine industries, like sewing or secretarial work, were closed to them due to their gender presentation. After the war, many women were reluctant to give up their new financial independence, and thus the carabiner is linked to female liberation and working-class aesthetics and this belt-side key chain came to be part of the lesbian style.

Lavender

Lavender is used interchangeably with “rainbow” to mean “LGBTQ+” at events like Lavender Graduations and the annual Lavender Law Conference. It’s thought that lavender became code for gay because it’s created by mixing pink and blue—colors which are culturally connected to girls or boys—thus blurring the distinction of what is feminine or masculine. One sweet use of this color connection within the queer community is on Valentine’s Day, lavender roses are often the choice of LGBTQ+ partners.

Lambda (the Greek letter)

In the early 1970′s, based on the recommendation of Tom Doerr, New York City’s Gay Activists Alliance chose as its symbol the Greek letter lambda, which looks like a lowercase “y” flipped upside down, because it’s used in science to represent kinetic energy. Kinetic energy is energy an object has due to its motion, thus making lambda a symbol of change. For example, Lambda Legal works for positive change to the legal status of queer people

Ace playing cards

Due to the word “asexual” being commonly shortened to “ace,” this led to a play on words by ace playing cards coming to represent asexuality. The ace of hearts and ace of spades are used to symbolize being aromantic and asexual respectively.

Undercuts

Queer people find ways to challenge heteronormativity, whether it’s gay men bleaching their hair blonde or lesbians rejecting the association of long hair with womanhood. Short hair has become associated with lesbians, whether it’s a bob, a brightly-colored close crop, and most iconically the undercut which is a hairstyle that leaves the top part of the hair medium length or long but has one or both sides and/or the back of the head shaved closely

Brunch

Brunch is THE gay meal and for a number of reasons. There was a time that brunch wasn’t viewed as respectable, but rather was a meal for those who’d stayed out late partying. Bucking tradition is a queer tradition and so brunch is a natural. On Sundays, brunch exists at a time many people are at church, and it’s a great use of that time for queer people who chose to leave churches that reject them. Gay spaces were generally bars and clubs which are usually nighttime spaces, but brunch was radical as a place gays could gather and be themselves in the daylight. Historically, queer people found it more difficult to secure gainful employment, and brunch is a bargain, usually half the price of dinner, so it makes sense the queer community flocked to a meal that was more affordable. Brunch is more casual than a proper breakfast or dinner and therefore is often accompanied by fun conversation and gossip. Brunch offers a greater variety of food options than the typical meal, there’s something for everyone. Could anything be more queer than variety & acceptance?

Ms. Frizzle

In the 1990s, the popular children‘s television show “The Magic School Bus” featured a teacher, Ms. Frizzle, who was never confirmed to be queer, but she was definitely queer coded, such as her quirky fashion style of mismatched brightly-colored patterns & those big earrings. She bucked gender norms by being a woman teaching STEM topics, and having a love of adventure. Another clue is she wasn’t married at a time when gay marriage was not legal. Also, the character was voiced by lesbian actress Lily Tomlin.

Women’s Hockey

Women’s hockey has a joyous history of lesbian players who are visible. In 2017, Caroline Ouellette and Julie Chu—former captains of the Canada and US ice hockey teams—welcomed their newborn daughter into the world. The following year Meghan Duggan, the captain of the US women’s Olympic ice hockey team, married her girlfriend Gillian Apps, who played for Team Canada, and they had faced each other in the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympic finals. Dating & marrying your opponents, lesbians are setting the example for World Peace

BLÅHAJ

Blåhaj—pronounced blaw-high—translates simply as "blue shark" in English, and is a toy introduced by IKEA in 2014. The blueish body, white underbelly, and pink mouth are the trans flag colors. There’s so few things designed and marketed for trans people, that it’s delightful they latched onto this cute and cuddly plush shark

Keith Haring art

Keith Haring was an American pop artist who advocated for safe sex and AIDS awareness through his images. In 1988, Haring designed the logo for National Coming Out Day, which is still used today. A year later, he established the Keith Haring Foundation to provide funding to AIDS organizations. He died in February 1990 of AIDS-related complications. His distinctive and instantly recognizable style came to define the 1990′s

#happy pride 🌈#lgbtq+

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filosofablogger · 2 years

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🏳️‍🌈 Celebrating PRIDE Month - Part I 🏳️‍🌈

🏳️‍🌈 Celebrating PRIDE Month – Part I 🏳️‍🌈

This is a repeat of last year’s Pride Month post with only slight modifications. Today, with so many states attempting to push the LGBTQ community into obscurity, think it is more important than ever that we remember the fight for LGBTQ rights which I often compare to the fight for Black rights in this country. There is a reason we have Black History Month and Pride Month … to remember that we…

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#civil rights #Gay Activists Alliance #Genovese crime family #human rights #LGBTQ community #police brutality #Pride Month #Stonewall Inn

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