“SAY IT LOUD - WE’RE GAY AND WE’RE PROUD,” Gay Liberation Fr

“SAY IT LOUD - WE’RE GAY AND WE’RE PROUD,” Gay Liberation Front (GLF) and Society for Individual Rights (SIR) members, San Francisco, California, October 31, 1969. Photo by Greg Peterson, @sfchronicle. On Halloween 1969, on what became known as the Friday of the Purple Hand, members of the GLF and SIR gathered at the San Francisco Examiner building to protest the paper’s recent anti-gay articles; in particular, the groups called on the Examiner to stop the common practice of printing the names and addresses of individuals arrested at gay bars and at cruising areas. As the protest started, Examiner staff showered purple printers’ ink down from the third floor of the newspaper building; and, as the Chicago Tribune reported the next day, the “[a]ngry homosexuals retaliated by dipping their hands in pools of ink on the pavement and smearing [their] handprints over the front of the building.” At that point, according to Larry LittleJohn, then-president of SIR, “the tactical squad arrived–not to get the employees who dumped the ink, but to arrest the demonstrators…the police came racing in with their clubs swinging in, knocking people to the ground. It was unbelievable.” #lgbthistory #lgbtherstory #lgbttheirstory #gay #bi #trans #lesbian #poz #pride #glf #sir #fridayofthepurplehand #gayboy #gayhippies #gayhippiehottie #sayitloud #weregayandwereproud #larrylittlejohnisfuntosay (at The San Francisco Examiner) -- source link

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