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LGBTQ Presentations. *Brief introduction of events and summary including date *How does your topic directly or indirectly connect to gay rights ? *How has the issue changed today?. Magnus Hirschfeld.
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LGBTQ Presentations *Brief introduction of events and summary including date *How does your topic directly or indirectly connect to gay rights? *How has the issue changed today?
Magnus Hirschfeld 175a. Confinement in a penitentiary not to exceed ten years and, under extenuating circumstances, imprisonment for not less than three months shall be imposed: 1. Upon a male who, with force or with threat of imminent danger to life and limb, compels another male to commit lewd and lascivious acts with him or compels the other party to submit to abuse for lewd and lascivious acts; 2. Upon a male who, by abuse of a relationship of dependence upon him, in consequence of service, employment, or subordination, induces another male to commit lewd and lascivious acts with him or to submit to being abused for such, acts; 3. Upon a male who being over 21 years of age induces another male under 21 years of age to commit lewd and lascivious acts with him or to submit to being abused for such acts; 4. Upon a male who professionally engages in lewd and lascivious acts with other men, or submits to such abuse by other men, or offers himself for lewd and lascivious acts with other men. 175b. Lewd and lascivious acts contrary to nature between human beings and animals shall be punished by imprisonment; loss of civil rights may also be imposed.
In the last analysis a healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives; when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor, not to shirk difficulties, but to overcome them; not to seek ease, but to know how to wrest triumph from toil and risk. The man must be glad to do a man's work, to dare and endure and to labor; to keep himself, and to keep those dependent upon him. The woman must be the housewife, the helpmeet of the homemaker, the wise and fearless mother of many healthy children Biological Definition Social Definition Mollycoddle
Emma Goldman First to advocate for social equality for gay and lesbians "she was the first and only woman, indeed the first and only American, to take up the defense of homosexual love before the general public.“ Magnus Hirschfeld
Gay Liberation Front and the GLF Manifesto 1971 Straight male hegemony was seen as the common oppressor of both women and queers. Subverting the supremacy of heterosexual masculinity was, to us, the key to genuine liberation for LGBTs and the female sex. The GLF Manifesto argues that much LGBT oppression results from the way we queers deviate from the socially-prescribed, orthodox gender roles of masculine and feminine: The Manifesto’s idealistic vision involved creating a new sexual democracy, without homophobia, misogyny, racism and class privilege. Erotic shame and guilt would be banished. There would be sexual freedom and human rights for everyone – queer, bisexual and straight. The Manifesto aligned GLF with other liberation movements, such as the movements for women’s, black, Irish and working class freedom. Although critical of the misogyny and homophobia of the “straight left”, it positioned the LGBT struggle as part of the broader anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist movement, striving for the emancipation of all humankind.
Daughters of Bilitis "A Woman's Organization for the purpose of Promoting the Integration of the Homosexual into Society." 1.Education of the variant...to enable her to understand herself and make her adjustment to society...this to be accomplished by establishing...a library...on the sex deviant theme; by sponsoring public discussions...to be conducted by leading members of the legal psychiatric, religious and other professions; by advocating a mode of behavior and dress acceptable to society. 2. Education of the public...leading to an eventual breakdown of erroneous taboos and prejudices... 3. Participation in research projects by duly authorized and responsible psychologists, sociologists, and other such experts directed towards further knowledge of the homosexual. 4. Investigation of the penal code as it pertain to the homosexual, proposal of changes,...and promotion of these changes through the due process of law in the state legislatures." New York chapter president Barbara Gittings noted that the word "variant" was used instead of "lesbian" in the mission statement. Variant is a gender expression that does not fit with gender norms. Lesbian was viewed as negative.
Morris Kight 1919-2003 The co-founder of the Gay and Lesbian Community Service Center of L.A. (now called the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center), Kight also was a key organizer of the West Coast's first gay pride parade and celebration in 1970, which effectively galvanized the modern gay rights movement in Los Angeles. The parade has drawn nearly 500,000 people in recent years. One of the best known was a weeks-long 1970 demonstration outside Barney's Beanery, the well-known West Hollywood bar, which had a bar sign reading "Faggots Stay Out!" After three weeks of protests, employees surrendered the offending sign. Despite promises, a new sign appeared, and was removed in 1985. As a constant reminder of the need for vigilance, a framed copy of the sign hung over Kight's sofa in the modest West Hollywood apartment he shared with his beloved cats. He also founded the Stonewall Democratic Club, a gay and lesbian political party, in October 1975.
Harry Hay Jr. 1912-2002 Harry Hay, founded the Mattachine Society in California and that was the first time that someone self-consciously brought political consciousness to the gay community. Hay: The police had a practice of entrapping people. This was done all over the country, but we had a particularly vicious group here in Southern California because of the Hollywood situation. They knew they could get a lot of them. They were shaking down people for thousands in blackmail. This would all be handled hush-a-hush, but thousands and thousands of dollars had to change hands anyway. This was when we were all illegal. The guys would get some cute little number. And he would entice people to do things they probably would never ordinarily do. The moment that you'd make a pass, a couple of witnesses would just appear out of the bushes and arrest you. So, one particular boy--one of our members, Dale Jennings--was entrapped one night.
Walt Whitman 1819-1892 “There is that in me – I do not know what it is – but I know it is in me. … I do not know it – it is without name – it is a word unsaid, It is not in any dictionary, utterance, symbol.” - Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
Boston marriages 18-1900’s Boston marriage A Boston marriage is a polite term to describe two women living in a household and sharing expenses, whether in a Platonic or lesbian relationship. Molly and Bridgit were in a Boston marriage and co-owned a brownstone. Source: Urban Dictionary
Child molestation and homosexuality http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17u01_sWjRE
1970 Carl Whitman Gay Manifesto San Francisco is a refugee camp for homosexuals. We have fled here from every part of the nation, and like refugees elsewhere, we came not because it is so great here, but because it was so bad there. By the tens of thousands, we fled small towns where to be ourselves would endanger our jobs and any hope of a decent life; we have fled from blackmailing cops, from families who disowned or ‘tolerated’ us; we have been drummed out of the armed services, thrown out of schools, fired from jobs, beaten by punks and policemen. 1. What homosexuality is: Nature leaves undefined the object of sexual desire. The gender of that object is imposed socially. Humans originally made homosexuality taboo because they needed every bit of energy to produce and raise children: survival of species was a priority. With overpopulation and technological change, that taboo continued only to exploit us and enslave us. 2. Marriage: Marriage is a prime example of a straight institution fraught with role playing. Traditional marriage is a rotten, oppressive institution. Those of us who have been in heterosexual marriages too often have blamed our gayness on the breakup of the marriage. No. They broke up because marriage is a contract which smothers both people, denies needs, and places impossible demands on both people. And we had the strength, again, to refuse to capitulate to the roles which were demanded of us.
Gay is Good Frank Kameny As a gay combat veteran of World War II, and therefore a member of the "Greatest Generation", I find myself and my fellow gays as absent from your narration as if we did not and do not exist. We find Boom! Boom!! Boom!!! in your book about all the multitudinous issues and the vast cultural changes of that era. But not a single "Boom", only dead silence, about gays, homosexuality, and the Gay Movement. As a long-time gay activist, who initiated gay activism and militancy at the very start of "your" Sixties, in 1961; coined the slogan "Gay is Good" in 1968; and is viewed by many as one of the "Founding Fathers" of the Gay Movement, I write with no little indignation at the total absence of any slightest allusion to the gay movement for civil equality in your book Letter to Tom Brokaw criticizing Brokaw’s book 2007 Mr. Brokaw, you deal with the histories of countless individuals. Where are the gays of that era: Barbara Gittings; Jack Nichols; Harry Hay; Del Martin and Phyllis Lyons; Randolfe Wicker; Harvey Milk; numerous others? No booms in your book; only silence and heterosexuals.
Sodomy laws and 50s laws designed to stop homosexuality The Supreme Court ruled in Lawrence v. Texas in 2003 that it is unconstitutional to bar consensual sex between adults, calling it a violation of the 14th Amendment. BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A dozen states still have anti-sodomy laws on the books 10 years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled they are unconstitutional. 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA8nxfRwdKM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17C_9TXgAms
Barbara Gittings In the early 1960s we became involved together in ECHO, the East Coast Homophile Organizations, formed to bring together the hugely vast East Coast segment of the gay movement of the day -- all four organizations. She was present in NACHO, the North American Homophile Organizations, which succeeded ECHO in 1966, and she actively supported me at the 1968 NACHO conference in Chicago when I unveiled "Gay is Good". A difference of opinion developed in the early 1960s, as how best to approach psychiatry and the sickness theory and its advocates, with some taking a less assertive approach more deferential to the so-called authorities and experts, and others taking a more aggressive, confrontational approach, as did I. Barbara, who agreed fully with me, utilized the Daughters' Ladder magazine, of which she was Editor And so, with an ineffable sense of loss, I say "Goodbye Barbara. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. We are all the less for her departure. I miss her more than I can ever say, but will always remember her fondly as one of the most important players in my gay activist life and in the incredible progress of the gay community over the past half century. Goodbye Barbara. You won't be forgotten. Eulogy by Frank Kameney
Vagrancy laws vs. homosexualism and homosexuality http://gayinsacramento.com/Chron1-Calif-page.htm
