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Remembering the Lesbians in Lesbian/Gay Liberation

Remembering the Lesbians in Lesbian/Gay Liberation By Ann Menasche  Under patriarchy, lesbians are not supposed to exist. Women - "normal" women at least - are supposed to need men to be complete, for love, for sex, for economic survival, for family, for legitimacy. In such a world, there is no place for lesbians; if a few manage to exist, they are seen as freaks or pariahs. Not surprising that we rarely appear in history or when we are named at all, we are portrayed as lonely spinsters pining after some man. (Remember the lies told about 19th century poet Emily Dickenson, who had a lifelong passionate relationship with her sister-in-law.) In the mid-to-late 20th century, ideas of traditional womanhood began to be challenged as women as a sex gained increased independence. By the height of the Second Wave of feminism in the late 60s and 70s, lesbians had begun to emerge from the shadows and establish themselves among the leadership of the newly emerged Feminist and Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements. And as the synergy of Lesbian/Gay Liberation and Radical Feminism freed more women to be able to pursue a lesbian life, a vibrant culture of Lesbian Feminism emerged.  That culture produced socially conscious music, poetry, books, publishing houses, newspapers, feminist theatre, coffee houses, and festivals run by and for women that inspired and sustained us and helped fuel the political activism of the time. And in this environment we began to rediscover the lesbians that came before us. We no longer felt so alone. But times have changed again and lesbians are being rendered invisible once more. Even the contributions lesbians made to the Movement for Lesbian and Gay Liberation are being forgotten. Many factors have contributed to this disappearing of lesbians from history, from our public consciousness, and often from ourselves and each other. While lesbians have won some mainstream acceptance through marriage equality, the accumulated losses have begun to be greater than the gains. Hard economic times, a conservative political climate, the growth and increased power of the Christian fundamentalist Right and a growing backlash against feminism have conspired to make lesbian existence harder once more. Independent lesbian culture has been destroyed. Even the lesbian bars that, despite their flaws, provided a place to meet and find community with other lesbians are now gone. In their place is a sense of utter isolation and despair among many lesbians. And there is often no place to turn for support except perhaps online forums. Moreover, though the illusion that we've already won our rights is widespread, the reality is quite different. Lesbians in the United States can still lose their jobs, be disowned by their parents, lose custody of their children, and be raped or murdered for loving other women. Anti-lesbian prejudice is everywhere. One of the most destructive influences on lesbians, which is erasing us from history and undermining the possibility of lesbian existence in the present, is gender identity ideology. As this ideology has become increasingly predominant, overwhelming our lesbian/gay communities and incorporating itself into law and culture, lesbians have felt ourselves surrounded on all sides. We are being pressured and guilt-tripped on the one hand to accept men calling themselves women into our communities and our bedrooms. At the same time, rebellious young girls with same-sex feelings, and lesbian adults are being convinced in growing numbers they are really "men" and are being coerced or swayed into "transitioning."  As women’s liberation no longer appears to be a realistic goal, some of this vulnerability to the forces of transgenderism and extreme body modification may be summed up by the phrase “if you can’t beat them, join them.”  How else escape the violent heavy hand of misogyny on our bodies and lives but to pass as male? Without question, Lesbians have become extremely marginalized within the modern LGBTQ+ "alphabet soup" - the corporatized stepchild of the Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movement. LGBT centers in the name of trans-inclusion, refuse to provide space for lesbians to even meet together outside of the presence of males. We are not welcome at Pride and even the Dyke March has been taken from us by “lesbians” with male genitalia and their supporters. And as lesbians have been virtually disappeared, so has the role we played in the struggles that came before us been disappeared as well. Our lesbian foremothers are once again gone from the history books, or are posthumously "transitioned," described as "queer," or treated merely as a footnote. But lesbians fueled the Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movement from its start.  It would not have happened without us. And it is time to give credit where credit is due. The Stonewall Rebellion on June 28, 1969 was not led by individuals identifying as transgender. Transgenderism barely existed at that time even as a concept. What existed was large numbers of lesbians and gay men, some of whom cross dressed or dressed in drag, but did not thereby deny either their sex or their homosexuality. Drag queens and butch lesbians were among those who found community at the Stonewall Inn in New York, a bar owned and operated by the mafia but one of the few places that same sex couples could dance together. Police raids were commonplace but that historic night as police dragged patrons out of the bar and beat them, one butch lesbian, Storme DeLaverie, decided she had had enough. When a police officer shoved her and called her a "faggot", she punched him in the face. Four officers assaulted her and one hit her on the head with a billy club.  Bleeding from the head, and dragged toward the police van, she yelled "Why don't you guys do something?"  The rebellion was on and lasted six nights. Lesbian and Gay Liberation was born. Martha Shelley, a lesbian with strong left-wing politics, had passed by the Stonewall on the fateful night but thought she was seeing an anti-war protest. She had no idea that the people throwing rocks at the cops were gay. When she realized what she had missed, she contacted the Daughters of Bilitis and the Mattichine Society and made a proposal for them to jointly sponsor a protest march. On July 27, 1969, 200 lesbians and gays marched in Greenwich Village, in what was to become the world’s first Gay Pride Parade.  The organizing committee formed itself into the Gay Liberation Front, a revolutionary group that demanded not assimilation but a complete overhaul of the patriarchal, racist, imperialist system. A new movement was launched, initiated by a lesbian. Almost a decade later in 1978 in San Francisco another lesbian was the central leader in the successful movement to defend Lesbian and Gay Rights then under attack. This was the struggle against the attempt by Christian fundamentalists to pass the Briggs Initiative, a proposition that would have banned gay teachers and all supporters of Lesbian/Gay Rights in the schools. Though everyone knows about Harvey Milk, many giving him credit for the defeat of the Briggs Initiative, it was actually Nancy Elnor, a lesbian-feminist and socialist, someone virtually no one has heard of, who was far more responsible for that victory. I knew Nancy personally and worked together with her in the Bay Area Coalition against the Briggs Initiative.  We were on and off again lovers, our personal interaction often stormy, but my admiration for her never waned. Nancy worked long hours, doing amazing grassroots organizing work always accompanied by her German Shepherd "Bianca" and put together a mass movement that brought out tens of thousands into the streets against Briggs. She brought in organized labor and every progressive organization in San Francisco to join the cause, and chaired packed meetings of activists.  The Coalition under her leadership, organized a televised debate between Milk and Sally Gearhart on the one side and Briggs and one of his cohorts on the other.  A thousand people watched the debate on a big screen in a local high school auditorium. Nancy's in-the-streets movement building done through distributing thousands of flyers, making hundreds of phone calls, and attending dozens of meetings (there was no Internet) set an example for the whole state, helped change the political climate, and put us on the path to victory. Nancy died young but I'll never forget her. As many lesbians celebrate Pride with varying degrees of ambivalence or else consciously ignore the festivities as no longer speaking to us, it is important to remember and celebrate the heroic leadership of our lesbian foremothers who changed history. If we did it once, we can do it again. Read the full article

[trascapades]

🏳️‍🌈✊🏿📷 #ArtIsAWeapon #Stonewall50 #HappyPride Reposted from @nmaahc - African American women have always been part of the African American struggle for full equality, even as they navigate multiple intersections of identity. Marsha “Pay It No Mind” Johnson (1st image) was a prominent figure in the Stonewall Rebellion and an advocate for LGBTQ rights. In 1970, she co-founded S.T.A.R. with Sylvia Rivera. [Swipe ⬅️] Lucy Hicks Anderson (1886-1954), in the 2nd image, was an African American woman of trans experience who worked as a chef and an entrepreneur during the Prohibition era. She was arrested for charges of perjury after being accused of “lying” on her marriage certificate. Jackie Shane (3rd image) was a pioneering African American trans woman singer who was nominated for a Best Historical Album Grammy award for her album, “Any Other Way.” Stormé DeLarverie was a drag king and lesbian entertainer who performed at the Jewel Box Revue, North America's first racially integrated drag revue. She said this about Stonewall, “It was a rebellion, it was an uprising, it was a civil rights disobedience – it wasn't no damn riot.” Learn more about this community with our new LGBTQ+ collections portal. (link in bio) #HiddenHerstory #SmithsonianPride 📸: 1. Photographic slide of Marsha P. Johnson at a New York City Gay Pride Parade, © Ron Simmons, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Ron Simmons, 2. Lucy Hicks Anderson, 3. Jackie Shane publicity photo. #LGBTQ #lGBTQIA #Pride #Liberation #StonewallRebellion #FreedomFighters #LoveIsLove #BlackTransWomen #MarshaPJohnson #JackieShane #SylviaRivera #StorméDeLarverie #TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon (at The Stonewall Inn) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzRIxvplcl5/?igshid=sy98bpvpree2

[changoblanco]

1:20 a.m. on June 28, 1969. Fifty years ago today. #thankyou #stonewall50 #stonewallinn #stonewallriots #1969 #newyorkcityhistory #gayliberation #gayhistory #gaypride #worldpride #queerhistory #queers #transgender #transhistory #wereherewerequeergetusedtoit #gayrights #stonewalluprising #stonewallrebellion #greenwichvillage #civilrights #gaypower #pigs #dragpower #legalizegaybars https://www.instagram.com/p/BzQUgTtBkd7/?igshid=886tborl7wkx

[transgenderlies]

Countering transgender lies about Stonewall

Transgenders consistently lie about what happened at the Stonewall Inn in 1969. Their lie holds that the Stonewall riot was variously spurred by or chiefly carried out by transgenders, specifically “transwomen of colour” and even more specifically an “instigator” named Ray “Sylvia” Rivera. If you’d like all Stonewall-related transgender lies collected in one place, I would refer you to the so-called Transadvocate.

Of course this isn’t what happened. It was illegal to appear in public in the attire of the opposite sex in New York in 1969. You couldn’t just sashay down to the Stonewall of a Friday night for a watered-down drink served in a dirty glass, at least not without expecting hassles from cops. The Stonewall Inn was not an early Woody’s with weekly drag shows. The primary clientele was gay males, with some lesbians, and they were dressed like men and women, respectively, in most cases. Whatever “transgenders” frequented the Stonewall were actually drag queens, though that is a distinction without a difference here.

The facts are well established, except to lying transgenders. We have not merely the eyewitness accounts of gay men who were at the Stonewall that night (or the next two nights, or some combination), as in PBS’s Stonewall Uprising. We further have the direct statements from Sylvia Rivera herself, as recorded by recognized historians.

Eric Marcus, Making Gay History

Actually, it was the first time I had been to the friggin’ Stonewall. The Stonewall wasn’t a bar for drag queens. Everybody keeps saying it was. The drag queen spot was the Washington Square Bar, at Third St. and Broadway. This is where I get into arguments with people. They say, “Oh, no, it was a drag-queen bar, it was a black bar.” No. Washington Square Bar was the drag-queen bar.

If you were a drag queen, you could get into the Stonewall if they knew you. And only a certain number of drag queens were allowed into the Stonewall at that time. [...]

That first year after Stonewall, we were petitioning for a gay-rights bill for New York City, and I got arrested for petitioning on 42nd St. I was asking people to sign the petition.

I was dressed casually that day – makeup, hair, and whatnot. The cops came up to me and said, “You can’t do this.” I said, “My Constitution says that I can do anything that I want.” “No, you can’t do this. Either you leave or we’re going to arrest you.” I said, “Fine, arrest me.” They very nicely picked me up and threw me in a police car and took me to jail.

Martin Duberman, Stonewall

Washington Square was Sylvia’s special favo[u]rite. It opened at three in the morning and catered primarily (rather than incidentally as was the case with Stonewall) to transvestites[.] [...]

If she was going out at all... she would go to Washington Square. She had never been crazy about Stonewall, she reminded Tammy: Men in makeup were tolerated there, but not exactly cherished. [...]

If the raid went according to the usual pattern, the only people who would be arrested would be those without IDs, those dressed in the clothes of the opposite gender, and some or all of the employees. Everyone else would be let go with a few shoves and a few contemptuous words. The bar would soon reopen and they would all be back dancing. It was annoying to have one’s Friday night screwed up, but hardly unprecedented.

Note 39:

Section 887(7) of the New York State Criminal Code was the one traditionally invoked by the police against transvestites. The law was supposedly ignored on Halloween, though the police-department handbook specified that even then, someone dressed in costume had to be wearing a certain number of garments “appropriate” to their sex.

Note 40:

The eyewitness accounts in RAT (July 1969) specifically credits “one guy” (not a lesbian or a queen) for precipitating a scuffle by refusing to be put into the paddy wagon.... At least two people credit Sylvia herself with provoking the riot.... But I’ve found no corroboration for either account[,] and Sylvia herself, with a keener regard for the historical record, denies the accuracy of both versions. She does remember “throwing bricks and rocks and things” after the mêlée began, but takes no credit for initiating the confrontation.

David Carter, Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution

pp. 261–2:

The question of who gets credit for starting the riots is one that deserves consideration. The question, however, contains a premise: that an individual or group of individuals can be singled out as the prime mover in a complex process that many person s collectively created. This is important for two reasons. First, as John O’Brien pointed out, there was a continuum of resistance ranging from silent persons who ignored the police orders to move to those who threw objects at the police. O’Brien maintains that it was because of those person standing around and blocking the streets and sidewalks and keeping the police from being able to operate efficiently that he and others were able to engage in their tactics as effectively as they did: if there had been only about fifteen youths lobbing objects at the police the young men would have been quickly caught or chased away.

Second, I wrote the account of the first night to reflect my understanding of what happened, namely, that until the definitive outbreak of rioting when the police retreated inside the Stonewall Inn, there was throughout the evening both a gradual buildup of anger and, correspondingly, a gradual escalation in the release of that anger. In the course of that buildup there were numerous turning points, some more critical than others. With these qualifications noted, I think it is clear that special credit must be given to gay homeless youths, to transgendered men, and to the lesbian who fought the police.¹⁰

Footnote 10 from above:

Charles Kaiser suggested to the author that Stormé DeLarverie (see The Gay Metropolis: 1940–1996 [Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997], p. 198) was this woman, but she could not have been. To cite only a few of the problems with this thesis, DeLarverie’s story is one of escaping the police, not of being taken into custody by them, and she has claimed that on that night she was outside the bar, “quiet, I didn’t say a word to anybody, I was just trying to see what was happening,” when a policeman, without provocation, hit her in the eye (“Stonewall 1969: A Symposium,” June 20, 1997, New York City). DeLarverie is also an African-American woman, and all the witnesses interviewed by the author describe the woman as Caucasian.

And here’s what The Gay Metropolis actually says:

Several spectators agreed that it was the action of a cross-dressing lesbian – possibly Stormé DeLarverie – which would change everyone’s attitude forever. DeLarverie denied that she was the catalyst, but her own recollection matched others’ descriptions of the defining moment. “The cop hit me and I hit him back,” DeLarverie explained [in Kaiser’s own interview with her on 1995.12.09].

Continuing:

Among these, we can name three individuals known to have been in the vanguard: Jackie Hormona, Marsha Johnson, and Zazu Nova.

A common theme links those who resisted first and fought the hardest, and that is gender transgression. While we do not know how the lesbian who fought the police saw herself, we do know that her clothing was masculine, in keeping with her general demeano[u]r. We know from Pine’s testimony that the first significant resistance that he encountered inside the bar came from transvestites, and Joel S. places them among the first outside the bar to resist. Marsha Johnson and Zazu Nova were both transvestites, and, as the reader has seen, the street youth were, generally speaking, effeminate men. All available evidence leads us to conclude that the Stonewall Riots were instigated and led by the most despised and marginal elements of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered community. My research for this history demonstrates that if we wish to name the group most responsible for the success of the riots, it is the young, homeless homosexuals, and, contrary to the usual characterizations of those on the rebellion’s front lines, most were Caucasian; few were Latino; almost none were transvestites or transsexuals; most were effeminate; and a fair number came from middle-class families.

Footnote 11 from that same chapter:

It is remarkable – and no doubt inevitable given human psychology – that in the popular imagination the number of transvestites at the riots is always exaggerated. Readers will note that in the [Fred] McDarrah photos of the riots there is one transgendered person[,] and none of the persons I interviewed, some of whom knew her, ever saw her actively involved in the riots. (Note that the McDarrah photographs, which do feature the street youths, were taken late on Saturday night during one of the lulls in rioting, when nothing in particular was happening....) The Ambrosini photo does not show a single transvestite. Craig Rodwell told researcher Michael Scherker that “one of the myths about Stonewall is it was all drag queens. I mean, drag queens are part of what went on. Certainly one of the most courageous, but there were maybe twelve drag queens. In thousands of people.”

Transgenders lie about Stonewall in part because they are fundamentally dishonest (about themselves and about human anatomy, to give two examples), but they do it here to establish primacy over the legitimately constituted lesbian and gay community. The way they tell it, we owe them because they bravely instigated the Stonewall Riots that led to actual gay and lesbian liberation. (Even that last part isn’t true just in the U.S. context, as veterans of the Mattachine Society and the Daughters of Bilitis will attest.) As far as they’re concerned, transgender is the supercategory and we gays and lesbians are mere variations of trans. And Stonewall proves it.

Well, all of that is untrue, honey, and nobody’s buying what you’re selling, literally or figuratively.

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Seen in London. Marsha P Johnson writ large- as it should be. ❤️ #pride🌈 #changemaker #lgbt #lgbtq🌈 #marshapjohnson #lgbtheroes #stonewall #stonewallriots #stonewallrebellion #transgenderfamily #lgbthistory #lgbtleaders #lgbtleadership #shaundellenty #youngvictheatre #london #londongaypride #london🇬🇧 #londonist https://www.instagram.com/p/CGxqW55FPAN/?igshid=1d503savdvra4

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“How many years has it taken people to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human race? I mean how many years does it take people to see that? We’re all in this rat race together!” - Marsha P Johnson . Few 11x14 Art print left on #bloodygirlgangdotcom . . . . . . #blackhistorymonth #humanrightsactivist @naacp #blackhistorymonth2020 #transdayofrememberance #marshapjohnson #herstory #bhm2020 #blackhistorymonth2020 #stonewallrebellion #translivesmatters #tdor #restinpower #wocactivist #transthursday #dragqueensofinstagram #lgbtq #lgbtq🌈 #transisbeautiful #translivesmatter #transpride🌈 #transgenderwoman #terazzotuesday #transgenderpride🌈 #bloodygirlgang (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9Ao-yzhY6W/?igshid=9ykvw5dw4rbn

[theculturalattachegent]

“The Body Count for Liberation”

To whom it may concern,

Today, I am happy. Today, I am free. As we approach the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion (June 28–29, 1969), I must also remember the rebellions at Compton’s Cafeteria (San Francisco, 1966) and Cooper Do-Nuts (Los Angeles, 1959) that came before. I must remember the black and brown, poor, trans, drag queens, and disabled members of our community who led those rebellions. I must remember those, like Joey and Ray, who I met via the Student Retention Center in college, who took me under their wings and gave me the “street syllabus” on being queer during my freshman year. I must remember there is a body count for liberation. Sometimes that body count is our own. Sometimes, it has been my own.

When I began college at 18, I was walking up a steep hill during my UCLA Orientation on my way to meet Roxanne Neal, who was the director of orientation programs at the time who I’d later meet again when I became an orientation counselor myself. Her influence on my learning and becoming stays with me until today. While I walked up that hill, for the first time, in my entire life, I saw two men, in person, holding hands walking down Charles E. Young Driveway. It was an incredible image of pride and freedom that neither television nor my upbringing in Los Angeles, Bellflower, or Compton, California had afforded me. One afternoon, sitting at home watching The Ricki Lake Show after school, I was told that I risked being disowned by my mother if I ever “came out.” I had no idea what “coming out” was, but I made the connection with the flamboyantly queer folks on television in front of me, the folks that Ricki was celebrating. This person had given a pre-teenage kid a sexuality, a gender orientation, and a false identity before I had the opportunity to create one for myself.

So, I stayed in that box for more than ten years. My college partner, and fiancé (at the time) would toil over why I couldn’t be as “out” as he and he didn’t fully comprehend why I was able to love him, but not celebrate us publicly and fully during those college years. He had never been verbally and psychically threatened by someone he trusted, in the way I had. In other ways, yes. We were at an impasse. I can still feel those days deeply hidden within a closet in such a way. In a room. Alone. Futile.

However, like many in my community, I still carry that memory and trauma. I have done much work to overturn that trauma of a single conversation to a young boy sitting on furry brown carpet simply watching television after school, being a kid. But that work, and our work, continues. When James Baldwin wrote Giovanni’s Room, American publishers did not want to publish the book for fear that it clashed with his identity as a black, male, activist and public figure. At the now-closed Riviera Cafe in the West Village in New York, Baldwin told Richard Goldstein, Giovanni’s Room is not about “homosexuality” (a pejorative word we’ve mostly discarded in writing, a term that did not even enter our lexicons in describing same-sexual-desire relationships until the 1890s). However, Baldwin tells Goldstein that the novel “is about what happens when you’re afraid to love anybody. As the main character, David says:

“For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.”

In the photo above, Kyle Stein, the photographer, asked me to “do something” with my hands, which is when I embarrassingly have no idea what to do. So, I channeled Pepper LaBeija during the end credits of Paris is Burning, put my hands up to my face, and said, “And, soul.”

This act was something I could not conceive of doing 20 years ago.

PS — It is astounding to think that a declaration as mines in these words, 50 years ago in New York, would have led to a loss of employment, being hauled off in the paddy wagon and a jailhouse conviction. And yet, while I have a privilege in some cases to escape that plight today, so many others around the world do not, as we celebrate World Pride during this year of 2019. Thank you to those like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera and the many liberation fighters who paved a way, when there was no way. We pay homage. And in the words of Pearl Cleage, “We speak your names.”

Sincerely, MAB

Portrait by Kyle Stein at Studio 6, Bushwick, NY

[hrexach]

~~June 28, 2017~~ 

ENDURING LEGACY

It is so comforting to hear this voice associated to the topic that President Obama is speaking about.

The tone, the sense of protection, the equanimity, the strength.

All that we need to go on. 

We must stand tall. There’s no going back.

We will do so to honor those who came before us, for our generation and for the younger generation coming up.

We will do so also in gratitude to this amazing ally, President Obama!

HortyRex©

  By Brian McBride

Millions around the world took part in parades and marches in honor of National LGBTQ Pride Month, but these celebrations may not have been possible if not for a group of LGBTQ activists who 48 years ago stood up in a local New York bar and fought back against hate.

On June 28, 1969, when New York City police began again harassing LGBTQ patrons of the Stonewall Inn simply for congregating, those patrons decided they’d had enough. They began bravely fighting back against the consistent oppression and brutal intimidation they faced. From those early demonstrations grew a modern social movement determined to rid the nation of discrimination against all LGBTQ Americans.

Exactly one year later, the first Pride marches took place in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles to commemorate the anniversary of the historic stand against injustice at Stonewall.

The significance of the events at Stonewall, and their influence in shaping the national conversation surrounding LGBTQ equality in America, cannot be overstated. Last summer, then-President Obama acknowledged the historic contributions of the events of 1969 by designating the Stonewall Inn as the country’s first LGBTQ national monument, a place essential to telling the story of the LGBTQ community’s struggle for equality.

“We can’t rest, we gotta keep pushing for equality and acceptance and tolerance, but the arc of our history is clear,” said Obama. “It’s an arc of progress and a lot of that progress can be traced back to Stonewall.”

The LGBTQ community hailed Obama’s announcement, which recognized what many consider the birthplace of the LGBTQ movement, providing a public acknowledgement of Stonewall’s much-deserved place in history.

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  Though Stonewall’s legacy is cemented in history, LGBTQ progress remains on shaky ground in the Drumpf Era

HRC takes inspiration from the brave members of our community who stood up for themselves – and all of us – at Stonewall, and remains committed to ensuring all people, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, are treated equality and with dignity under the law.

“As it appears in �� full read/full credit”

http://www.hrc.org/blog/as-pride-month-concludes-the-legacy-of-stonewall-endures

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  ~~Announcing the Stonewall National Monument~~

  ~~Published on Jun 24, 2016~~

“I’m designating the Stonewall National Monument as the newest addition to America’s national parks system.

Stonewall will be our first national monument to tell the story of the struggle for LGBT rights. I believe our national parks should reflect the full story of our country – the richness and diversity and uniquely American spirit that has always defined us. That we are stronger together. That out of many, we are one.”

 President Barack Obama

On June 24, 2016 President Obama designated the site of the Stonewall uprising and birthplace of the modern LGBT civil rights movement the “Stonewall National Monument.”

This new monument is a testament to the diversity, inclusiveness, and individual freedom that make America great.

  We ALL are ONE!! 

Stonewall Inn …. “The Legacy Endures ….

~~June 28, 2017~~  ENDURING LEGACY It is so comforting to hear this voice associated to the topic that President Obama is speaking about.

Stonewall Inn …. “The Legacy Endures …. ~~June 28, 2017~~  ENDURING LEGACY It is so comforting to hear this voice associated to the topic that President Obama is speaking about.

[bloghrexach]

~~June 28, 2017~~ 

ENDURING LEGACY

It is so comforting to hear this voice associated to the topic that President Obama is speaking about.

The tone, the sense of protection, the equanimity, the strength.

All that we need to go on. 

We must stand tall. There’s no going back.

We will do so to honor those who came before us, for our generation and for the younger generation coming up.

We will do so also in gratitude to this amazing ally, President Obama!

HortyRex©

  By Brian McBride

Millions around the world took part in parades and marches in honor of National LGBTQ Pride Month, but these celebrations may not have been possible if not for a group of LGBTQ activists who 48 years ago stood up in a local New York bar and fought back against hate.

On June 28, 1969, when New York City police began again harassing LGBTQ patrons of the Stonewall Inn simply for congregating, those patrons decided they’d had enough. They began bravely fighting back against the consistent oppression and brutal intimidation they faced. From those early demonstrations grew a modern social movement determined to rid the nation of discrimination against all LGBTQ Americans.

Exactly one year later, the first Pride marches took place in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles to commemorate the anniversary of the historic stand against injustice at Stonewall.

The significance of the events at Stonewall, and their influence in shaping the national conversation surrounding LGBTQ equality in America, cannot be overstated. Last summer, then-President Obama acknowledged the historic contributions of the events of 1969 by designating the Stonewall Inn as the country’s first LGBTQ national monument, a place essential to telling the story of the LGBTQ community’s struggle for equality.

“We can’t rest, we gotta keep pushing for equality and acceptance and tolerance, but the arc of our history is clear,” said Obama. “It’s an arc of progress and a lot of that progress can be traced back to Stonewall.”

The LGBTQ community hailed Obama’s announcement, which recognized what many consider the birthplace of the LGBTQ movement, providing a public acknowledgement of Stonewall’s much-deserved place in history.

~~GRAPHICS SOURCE~~ 

Google Images

DISCLAIMER

I do not own these images.

No intention of taking credit.

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  Though Stonewall’s legacy is cemented in history, LGBTQ progress remains on shaky ground in the Drumpf Era

HRC takes inspiration from the brave members of our community who stood up for themselves – and all of us – at Stonewall, and remains committed to ensuring all people, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, are treated equality and with dignity under the law.

“As it appears in … full read/full credit”

http://www.hrc.org/blog/as-pride-month-concludes-the-legacy-of-stonewall-endures

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  ~~Announcing the Stonewall National Monument~~

  ~~Published on Jun 24, 2016~~

“I’m designating the Stonewall National Monument as the newest addition to America’s national parks system.

Stonewall will be our first national monument to tell the story of the struggle for LGBT rights. I believe our national parks should reflect the full story of our country – the richness and diversity and uniquely American spirit that has always defined us. That we are stronger together. That out of many, we are one.”

 President Barack Obama

On June 24, 2016 President Obama designated the site of the Stonewall uprising and birthplace of the modern LGBT civil rights movement the “Stonewall National Monument.”

This new monument is a testament to the diversity, inclusiveness, and individual freedom that make America great.

  We ALL are ONE!! 

Stonewall Inn …. “The Legacy Endures …. ~~June 28, 2017~~  ENDURING LEGACY It is so comforting to hear this voice associated to the topic that President Obama is speaking about.

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Webinar: Stonewall Rebellion against bigotry and police terror

Sunday, June 28 - 12 noon Pacific / 3:00 p.m. Eastern

Hosted by Struggle - La Lucha for Socialism

Speakers: ANDRE POWELL is a leader in the LGBTQ2S movement.  He was a founder of Labor for Reparations and traveled to the South African Durban world conference on racism. Powell resides in Baltimore and is an organizer for Socialist Unity Party and the Peoples Power Assembly.  He has been in the streets leading protests ever since George Floyd was murdered. LIZZ  TOLEDO is a Latinx LGBTQ2S fighter who lives in Atlanta. She is the founder of the Atlanta Peoples Power Assembly which took up the case of Renardo Lewis, who was assaulted by the police. Toledo also contributes to Struggle-La Lucha and is with the Socialist Unity Party. BOB McCUBBIN is the author of the new book 'The Social Evolution of Humanity: Marx and Engels were right!' and wrote the ground-breaking book the 'The Roots of Lesbian & Gay Oppression, A Marxist View.' McCubbin is from the San Diego Socialist Unity Party. R E G I S T E R   H E R E If you do not receive a link after registering please check your spam folder.

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PHILIPPINES: GABRIELA NEW YORK CALLS FOR THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF #PRIDE20!

On the morning of June 26th, at least 20 pride participants were violently dispersed and arrested during a peaceful protest in Mendiola to commemorate the 51st anniversary of Stonewall Riots and to call for the scrapping of the Anti-Terrorism Bill. They are currently in custody at the Manila Police District Headquarters for allegedly committing illegal assembly, disobedience, and violation of social distancing under the Bayanihan Act, which had expired since this Monday. In other words, these charges are illegal and baseless! Upon arrest, these unarmed participants were swarmed by state-personnel in full riot gear, threatened at gunpoint, viciously manhandled, and keys to their vehicles were even confiscated and driven to the police department. When asked why they were being detained and what laws they were violating, police remained silent. The protestors wore face masks, face shields, and committed themselves to strict physical distancing while marching until the police irresponsibly crammed them into their vehicles where such measures could no longer be followed. Among the 20 apprehended, 10 are from Bahaghari, 3 from GABRIELA | A National Alliance of Women, 2 drivers, 4 from Children's Rehabilitation Center, and 1 media intern. Should the Anti-Terrorism Bill be implemented into law by July 9th, this vague legislation will only incentivize more incidents of state-fascism and further the capabilities of the Duterte Regime to strip Filipinos’ democratic rights without warranting basis. Its overbroad definition of terrorism can be used to subject anyone as a suspect to terrorism. We can expect more warrantless arrests, longer weeks of detention, 12 years to life imprisonment, and more. GABRIELA New York strongly condemns this blatant attack on people’s democratic rights to assemble and freedom to expression! Link with us in demanding the immediate release and dropping of bogus charges against the #PRIDE20! Join us in calling for the scrapping of the Anti-Terrorism Bill! Rise For Queer Filipino Activists! Resist State Tyranny! Unite For Democratic Rights! #MakibekiWagMashokot #FREEPRIDE20 #AngPrideAyProtesta #JunkTerrorBill #AktibistaHindiTerrorista

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#StonewallStillMeansFightBack

For this 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, read comrade Bob McCubbin's groundbreaking book, first published in 1976 -- The Roots of Lesbian & Gay Oppression: A Marxist View.

Download here

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“If it wasn’t for the drag queen, there would be no gay liberation movement. We’re the front-liners.”- Marsha P. Johnson . . . #transdayofrememberance #marshapjohnson #stonewallrebellion #translivesmatters #tdor #restinpower #wocactivist #dragqueensofinstagram #lgbtq #lgbtq🌈 #transisbeautiful #translivesmatter #transpride🌈 #transgenderwoman #transgenderpride🌈 #bloodygirlgang (at The Castro) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5GkQwYhF3S/?igshid=271k155e9kfn