inferior-mirage: lesbian-lizards: hello-homophobes: datagirl: itsoktobegay101-blog: Pioneer Gay righ
inferior-mirage: lesbian-lizards: hello-homophobes: datagirl: itsoktobegay101-blog: Pioneer Gay rights activist Barbara Gittings at the first homosexual rights demonstration, Independence Hall, Philadelphia, July 4, 1965. In 1965, Gittings and several gay men and lesbians were the first to hold demonstrations outside the White House for equal rights for homosexuals. She later played a key role in the American Psychiatric Association removing homosexuality from its list of mental disorders in 1973. “Gay people didn’t have a face until Barbara started demonstrating in 1965" Thank you, Barbara thank you barbara for giving us gay rights! This has very little notes for a post from 2012 about an important pioneer of gay rights. I wonder why? So much history contained in one image. The man on the left is another incredibly influential activist, Randy Wicker. These demonstrations were known as the Annual Reminders. Frank Kameny organized them in Philadelphia for 5 years before other members of the East Coast Homophile Organizations, Craig Rodwell and Ellen Broidy, voted to move to NYC to commemorate Christopher Street Liberation Day, which became Gay Pride the following year. Barbara Gittings, often referred to as the “Mother of the Gay Rights Movement,” was an activist since the 1950s, nearly two decades before the Stonewall Inn Riots of 1969. -- source link