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The Stonewall Riots Didn’t Start The Gay Rights Movement

June 28, 2020 Greggor Mattson, JStor Daily. , , ,
Despite what you may hear during this year’s fiftieth anniversary commemorations, Stonewall was not the spark that ignited the gay rights movement. The story is well known: A routine police raid of a mafia-owned gay bar in New York City sparked three nights of riots and, with them, the global gay rights movement. In fact it is conventional to date LGBTQ history into “before Stonewall” and “after Stonewall” periods—not just in the United States, but in Europe as well. British activists can join Stonewall UK, for example, while pride parades in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland are called “Christopher Street Day,” after the street in New York City on which the Stonewall Inn still sits. But there were gay activists before that early morning of June 28, 1969, previous rebellions of LGBTQ people against police, earlier calls for “gay power,” and earlier riots.

Why Stonewall?

June 27, 2020 Matthew Wills, JStor Daily. , , ,
The Stonewall riot/uprising/rebellion of June 1969 is generally remembered as the beginning of the “gay liberation movement.” On the night of June 27th, the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar known for its cliental of drag queens, butch lesbians, and the transgendered, in New York’s Greenwich Village. Back then, “Public Morals Squad” raids were not uncommon—especially if the police hadn’t gotten their cut from such mafia-owned and unlicensed-to-sell-liquor establishments—but this time the Inn crowd fought back. The uprising quickly escalated to the surrounding streets over the next few days. The neighborhood and the community had had it with being treated like second-class citizens.

LGBTQ Pride At 50

June 27, 2020 Jeff McMillan, AP News. , , , ,
Scranton, PA - LGBTQ Pride is turning 50 this year a little short on its signature fanfare, after the coronavirus pandemic drove it to the internet and after calls for racial equality sparked by the killing of George Floyd further overtook it. Activists and organizers are using the intersection of holiday and history in the making — including the Supreme Court’s decision giving LGBT people workplace protections — to uplift the people of color already among them and by making Black Lives Matter the centerpiece of Global Pride events Saturday. “Pride was born of protest,” said Cathy Renna, communications director of the National LGBTQ Task Force, seeing analogies in the pandemic and in common threads of the Black and LGBTQ rights movements.

Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of LGBTQ Rights

June 16, 2020 Bil Browning, LGBTQ Nation. , , ,
The Supreme Court just issued a landmark decision penned by Neil Gorsuch, a conservative justice appointed by President Donald J. Trump, deciding that “An employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender violates Title VII.” “Today, we must decide whether an employer can fire someone simply for being homosexual or transgender. The answer is clear. An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex. Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids,” the decision reads. “An employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender violates Title VII.”

LGBTQ Advocates Protest Bigoted Organization That Set Up A Field Hospital

May 5, 2020 Amy Yensi, NY1.com. , , , ,
When it opened in March, the field hospital set up at Central Park was meant to increase hospital beds during the coronavirus crisis. More than 300 patients were treated at the temporary facility. Now, some are happy to see it go. “Samaritan’s Purse will be gone from New York within two weeks,” said Natalie James, the co-founder of the Reclaim Pride Coalition. “We are very relieved and consider this to be a victory of the LGBT community and other oppressed groups.” LGBTQ advocates rallied on Sunday against the organization that helped set up the facility. The tent hospital is a collaborative effort between Mount Sinai Hospital and Samaritan’s Purse, an organization founded by preacher Franklin Graham. The religious figure has expressed anti-gay and anti-Muslim views.

Brazil Gay Pride in Sao Paulo Challenges Brazil’s Homophobic President

June 24, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net , ,
One of the world's largest LGBT Pride parade took center stage in Sao Paulo on Sunday with the carnivalesque festivities tinged with unease over Brazil's conservative political climate under President Jair Bolsonaro. As many as three million people were expected to take part in the annual march through the heart of Brazil's economic capital, traditionally an exuberant celebration of camp, color and fantasy. This year, many participants said they were turning out because they feel their liberties are increasingly under threat.

Legal Victory Strengthens LGBT Activists As Threat From Bolsonaro Looms

June 21, 2019 By Jaimee A. Swift, Truthout.org , , ,
On Thursday, June 13, after months of postponement, Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court officially made homophobia and transphobia –– locally known as “LGBTphobia” –– a crime and outlawed discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. In an eight to three ruling, the remaining judges of the Supreme Federal Court voted to criminalize LGBTphobia under existing anti-discrimination laws that prohibit intolerance and bias based on race, religious intolerance and xenophobia.

No Cops, No Sponsors: 50 Years After Stonewall, Pride Goes Back To Its Roots

June 8, 2019 Emma Gaffney, Indypendent.org ,
Frustrated that the annual New York City Gay Pride parade has become dominated by corporate floats, a group called the Reclaim Pride Coalition announced in May that it will mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots with a separate march. Reclaim Pride’s Queer Liberation March will begin 2.5 hours before the official parade on June 30, and will not allow either corporate or police contingents. “The use of the word ‘parade’ signals a celebration,” said Reclaim Pride member Leslie Cagan, a longtime activist who organized some of the biggest protests in the city’s recent history, against the Iraq War and the climate crisis.

The LGBTQ Movement Needs To Revisit Its Radical Past To Thrive

December 7, 2018 By Samantha Borek, Truthout.org , ,
Roderick A. Ferguson: I, and many others, have been struck by the accumulation of various moments that require a critique of how gay or queer liberation has been narrowed in the name of gay rights, gay belonging, gay consumption. People forget that, for instance, the freedom to marry, the right to participation in the military, and the expansion of hate crime legislation — which has contributed to the expansion of the prison-industrial complex — were part of the primary agenda for gay rights organizations in the 1990s, as Dean Spade and Craig Wilse analyzed almost 20 years ago.

Being Trans In America Was Already Scary. Now It’s Terrifying.

October 26, 2018 By Robin Carver, Otherwords.org , , , ,
A new federal order wouldn't just deny civil rights protections to trans people. It would deny we exist altogether. I’m a trans woman, and I’m terrified. Already, on any given afternoon, I’m regularly and publicly catcalled, mocked, laughed at, and treated as an object of social disgust. Trans women are one of the most assaulted and murdered demographics in the United States, especially when they’re non-white. We’re the frequent and favorite target of even liberal-leaning culture outlets like Saturday Night Live. Even Democratic darling Kamala Harris repeatedly fought to deny life-saving medical treatment to incarcerated trans women when she served as California’s attorney general.

Trump’s Latest Attack On Transgender People & Women

October 24, 2018 Eleanor Goldfield, Artkillingapathy.com , , ,
The recent news about the Trump administration’s attack on trans and non-binary rights (aka human rights) astonishingly claims a scientific foundation for their religious fascistic hatred and stupidity. It’d be hilarious if it weren’t so horrifically twisted to condemn more than a million people simply because you can’t imagine a world where someone makes their own choices about their own body, mind and identity. Meanwhile, invoking science to promote this agenda not only rings frighteningly in key with such anti-scientific drivel as eugenics, it boggles the mind that an administration so hostile towards the science of climate change, economics, medicine, education and more is now suddenly interested in using science as an ally.

‘Insulting, Inhumane, And Unacceptable’: LGBTQ Rights Advocates Blast Trump’s Latest ‘Reckless Attack’ On Trans Americans

October 22, 2018 By Jessica Corbett, Commondreams.org , , ,
In a move that "would essentially eradicate federal recognition of the estimated 1.4 million Americans who have opted to recognize themselves—surgically or otherwise—as a gender other than the one they were born into," the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is currently considering a legal definition that "would define sex as either male or female, unchangeable, and determined by the genitals that a person is born with," according to the Times. The memo, which was drafted and has been circulating since the spring, claims that "sex means a person's status as male or female based on immutable biological traits identifiable by or before birth," and notes that under the proposed definition...

Illinois Prisons Sued For Unconstitutional Ban On LGBTQ Literature

October 19, 2018 Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, Truthout.org , , , , ,
The Uptown People’s Law Center and the MacArthur Justice Center filed a lawsuit on October 17 that alleges Illinois prisons are censoring correspondence and publications that have been mailed to prisoners by Black and Pink, a prisoners’ rights organization focused on supporting incarcerated LGBTQ and HIV-positive people. Jason Lydon founded Black and Pink in 2005 after his own incarceration and was the national director of the group until 2017. “Prisoners are entitled to communication with people on the outside and are entitled to knowledge and stories that validate their humanity,” Lydon told Truthout. “This lawsuit is about ensuring that.”

LGBTQ+ Activists Call For Civil Rights March On 50th Anniversary Of Stonewall Riots

October 18, 2018 Reclaim Pride NYC, Popular Resistance. , ,
New York, NY – The Reclaim Pride Coalition (RPC), formed by LGBTQ+ activists in early 2018 to protest the corporatization and gross mismanagement of NYC Pride by Heritage of Pride (HOP), calls for a civil rights march on the 50th anniversary of the historic Stonewall Rebellion. On Sunday, June 30, 2019, RPC along with other activist and community groups from around NYC, the nation and the world, will march in the spirit of the Stonewall Rebellion, celebrating the best of the community – a March that acknowledges both the struggles it's overcome as well as those it still faces in this country and abroad.

If You Care Nothing Of Starvation, You Are Not A Socialist

September 8, 2018 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute of Social Research. , , ,
Sentiments whip back and forth – a museum with ancient artefacts burns to the ground in Brazil as India’s Supreme Court decriminalises homosexuality. The first - the fire in Brazil - should never have happened (as the journalist Mário Augusto Jakobskind notes) but did – partly because the government has neglected the infrastructure needed by fire-fighters (hydrants near the 200-year-old museum were dry, which is why Rio’s fire chief Roberto Robadey said, ‘Yesterday was one of the saddest days of my career’). The burnt museum is a metaphor for the political events in Brazil, where the ‘judicial coup’ against the people continues.
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