#pride history

[callese]

[the-sappho-of-lesbos]

Source: A Decade Of Sydney Mardi Gras - Photos by Elio Loccisano

[tsp-narrator-ask]

“Alright every one! Since it’s pride month in here to give you some lgbtq history!”

If any one has any specific questions or topics I should go over feel free to comment or send in an ask! Oh and I do apologize for my radio silence before, there has been some… chaos in the parable so to speak.”

“Alright now “pride” all started with a riot and a brick. I know sounds crazy doesn’t it? Let’s go back, America, June 28th 1969, in the bustling city of Manhattan new York. We start our story at a local pub and inn called “the stonewall” it was a popular and common place for lgbtq people to congregate. A place they felt safe away from the blistering hate that was the outside world

“It was a world Where cops would over use there power and often strike a man down just for the implication he was gay, just for existing proudly. where people would be lynched and there bodies hidden or deaths covered up by local police if questioned…. Sadly this still happens today but not as much as it used to…any ways moving on!”

“This was there “home” that is until police raided the bar and tried to force there brute ways and jail those inside. But the stonewall patrons as a community joined forces and stood there ground fighting back. It was said that Marsha p. Johnson, a trans woman/drag queen was the first person to throw a brick at an officer in defense but in all honesty it’s still uncertain who threw the first brick on account that there was chaos and no video cameras at the time for surveillance.”

“With this the “gay liberation movement” started, protests for our rights began and new ways of thinking and acceptance came about.”

“Of course there where many bumps in the road along the way and more history to be shared but here’s your tidbit of knowledge for the day.”

Happy pride month

Signed your favorite narrator, 🦐 🏳️‍🌈

[nothingstudios]

Happy Birthday to Richard Patrick @filter-richard-patrick from FILTER! 🎉🎁

[ninjakittycomics]

Pride is necessary until we are no longer targets of dangerous actions.

We are there to be seen. We are there to say, Hey, we exist in your community. Your laws affect us, we exist.

That was the point, and is the point.

Pride events will look different over the years. And I hope there's always celebration and lots of play and goodness there. It makes me so happy to see us happier.

The riots were riots. and after that, Pride has always been about, "You can't pretend we don't exist and quietly legislate us away".

We won't go. We are your mothers, your sisters, your brothers, your niblings, your family, your coworkers, your bosses, your teachers, your actors, we're everywhere.

and you can't pretend that we aren't anymore.

For those of you who can be out, proud, and visible, please do so :)

For those who are in the closet, we party some years, and march others, so you will one day be safe enough. (please support us in the voting booth, otherwise, stay safe and take good care of yourselves)

[usnatarchives]

Stonewall Inn, 1999. NARA ID 75319963.

#OTD 1969: STONEWALL!

"The Hairpin Drop Heard Around the World."* By Miriam Kleiman, Public Affairs, in honor of dear friends MG and RW!

On June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Riots began following a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay club in New York's Greenwich Village. When officers became violent, Stonewall patrons and neighbors fought back, leading to days of riots and protests that catalyzed the LGBTQ+ rights movement.

See related Happy PRIDE Month post.

* Dick Leitsch, Mattachine Society's newsletter July 1969. Cited here

Stonewall by the #s...

1 year later 1970-NYC's first official gay pride parade started at Stonewall and marched up 6th Avenue.

25 years later 1994 the National Education Association recognizes June as LGBT History Month.

30 years later 1999- 101 page nomination for Stonewall to be a National Monument.

47 years later 2016 Stonewall National Monument established

50 years later 2019 1st formal NYPD apology for the Stonewall raid and decades of anti-gay discrimination.

From the records: Excerpts from nomination for Stonewall to be an official monument: 5/27/1999, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places and Landmarks, NARA ID 75319963

President Barack Obama, 6/24/2016: "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." -

More online:

LGBTQ+ Pride Month special topics page, National Archives News

Pride in Protesting: 50th of Stonewall Uprising, Pieces of History

The National Archives Records of Rights exhibit (in DC and online) includes RIGHTS TO PRIVACY AND SEXUALITY.

Stonewall@NARA, NARA's LGBTQ employee affinity group.

NARA's Amending America: LGBTQ Human and Civil Rights, Google Arts and Culture

Richard Blanco's keynote address, National Archives National Conversations on #RightsAndJustice: LGBTQ Human and Civil Rights.

"These People Are Frightened to Death": Congressional Investigations and the Lavender Scare, Prologue

Pride in Protesting: 50th of Stonewall Pieces of History

Before Stonewall: Facing Congress with Courage Pieces of History

DocsTeach: Primary Sources related to LGBTQ+ 

United States v. Edith Windsor 2013

Obergefell v. Hodges (Audio files: argument and opinion

[asquared-ohgodnotthehorrors]

Pride month is closing out in a week, so here’s a pride fact I learned recently:

George Michael, most notably known for his contributions to the creation of the the song Careless Whisper, is gay and was an active LGBTQ rights campaigner and HIV/AIDS fundraiser.

He did die of Heart Disease in 2016, but let’s all remember that George Michael was gay, especially considering how for the longest time I thought Carless Whisper was only about Straight love but takes on a whole lot of closeted gay undertones with this new bit of context.

[fandomtrash0509]

The first pride was a riot. And we don't mean that to scare you. Because it is a fact. That's what makes it true. Walls should not be built They end up falling down Connection makes us human Love makes us sound. Love is love We can't love with walls Walls always fall Love stands strong. POC and LGBT shout for justice in the streets Go on crying in our sleep Love is our shoe lace It connects us so deep. Love is love We can't love with walls Walls always fall Love stands strong. We fear what our family might think Go off crying in the streets Will they still love us Or will they cut our link.

Why Walls — Lydia Derby

[sandysapphireserious]

i feel like no other country than the us gets brought up in pride history stuff unless you actively hunt it down, and it’s exhausting.

[callese]

[clerks94]

Family, Neighbors, Friends. Queens Pride Parade, 37th AV Jackson Heights, June 5th, 1999

Photographer Unknown.

[nyxanine]

DAY 1 - PINK : SEX

DAY 2 - RED : LIFE

For this stripe I wanted to be both literal and metaphorical in representing the value of life. Depicting a T4T couple who has had a child of their own, knowing that child is going to be raised in a loving and accepting home. On top of that, the value of living authentically, to truly live without judgement and prejudice. To exist authentically is to rebel in a society that punishes deviation. Only a few years from the rise of the AIDS crisis that traumatized a generation, life would take on a stronger meaning. To continue living even in the face of death, caused by the system that seeks to oppress you, is an even more radical act.

[eternitwo]

does anyone have good pride history book recommendations

[notabled-noodle]

(aussie) besties, if you want to see something incredible… here is the list of everyone who marched in the first Mardi Gras protests

it has an A next to the name of anyone who was arrested! some of these people are still very active in the queer community!

[do not tag this “q slur” or similar]

[squishymain]

Because telling me to kill myself and calling me a moron is going to get me on your side. Pride wad a riot so we could have sex and kinks? Bruh, we started a riot because we where getting killed and denied basic human rights, being able to fuck whoever is just a small part of it. So f off.

They got mad at me for this post 🙄: https://at.tumblr.com/squishymain/sure-but-some-people-just-dont-want-to-see-that/dsj2lzw6z8jl

[emurinnartist]

In 1892, The Green Carnation became a symbol of Oscar Wilde In 1895, Ocsar Wilde was trialed for homosexuality While there is no direct correlation to the Green Carnation and Homosexuality, this flower has become a historic symbol within the LGBTQIA+ community; the Green Carnation is - and was - a subtle hint that you were a man that loved other men. In a time where Homosexuality was illegal, this was a subtle yet recognizable symbol that you were a homosexual male As The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles takes place within the last decade or so of the Victorian Era, this prominent part of history was the perfect inspiration for this Asoryuu piece

Happy Pride Month, and I hope this piece of history was enlightening <3