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Upon watching this, I now understand why own older generation has such an issue with homosexuality. I understand why my grandmother is trying her hardest to accept me, she was shown films like this, films that show homosexuality as a mental illness and compares it to pedophilla. It is amazing to see how far we have come since the 1950s. We are a community, with representation and science to back up that we do not have a mental illness and we as homosexuals are not preying on innocent youth, but we are humans with a voice.

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In the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City. Such raids were not unusual in the late 1960s, an era when homosexual sex was illegal in every state but Illinois. That night, however, the street erupted into violent protests and demonstrations that lasted for the next six days. The Stonewall riots, as they came to be known, marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement in the United States and around the world.

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Jimmy Buffet’s Manana, written in 1978, was an LGBT protest song challenging people to mind their own business and don’t judge.

Don't try to describe the scenery if you've never seen it Don't ever forget that you just may wind up in my song.

-Jimmy Buffett, Manana

For more information on Jimmy Buffett & Manana (song link) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTD4tCcqXvA

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/jimmy-buffett/biography

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If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.

Harvey Milk // Assassinated San Francisco City Supervisor and first openly gay man elected to public office, from a tape recording to be played in the event of his assassination, quoted in Randy Shilts's 

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“the mixing of these two elements: the ability to fight back in the streets and in the law that were essential to jump start the future of gay liberation”

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from the archives of the San Fransisco Chronicle, gathered from a series of photos as a tribute to the pioneers of the community, captured in parades between 1972 and 1979.

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Prior to European settlement, many Native American tribes respected LGBT rights.

“The tribe, as a separate sovereign, isn’t bound by the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 2015 gay-marriage decision, . But its judgment relies in part on evidence of historical recognition of same-sex relationships among Cherokees”

-The Cherokee Nation

For more information on the Native American LGBT community:

https://www.glsen.org/sites/default/files/NAHM_heroes.pdf

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/lgbt/news/2016/10/17/144818/supporting-two-spiritnative-american-lgbt-people-2/

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Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start.

Jason Collins // First Openly Gay Player in the NBA and in Major American Professional Sports,from the essay "The Gay Athlete," published in Sports Illustrated in 2013

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Alfred Kinsey: The Father of Sexology

Alfred Kinsey is known as the father of sexology. His groundbreaking and controversial research on human sexuality profoundly influenced social and cultural values.

Kinsey grew up in Hoboken, New Jersey, the oldest of three children in a devoutly religious home. His father was a strict disciplinarian and insisted the family attend church every Sunday.

In 1916, Kinsey graduated magna cum laude from Bowdoin College with degrees in biology and psychology. In 1919, he earned his doctorate in biology from Harvard University.    

In 1920, Indiana University hired Kinsey as an assistant professor of zoology. The following year, Kinsey married Clara McMillen. The couple had four children.

Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex.

-Alfred Kinsey

Kinsey’s first 20 years of research focused on the study of gall wasps. His research methodology, which made an important contribution to entomology, carried over into his later research on human sexual behavior.

In 1940, as part of a marriage course he was teaching, Kinsey began conducting research on sexual behavior. Thereafter, Kinsey worked exclusively on his research. He and his staff conducted over 18,000 interviews. Kinsey published “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male” (1948), followed by “Sexual Behavior in the Human Female” (1953).

The two books, known as the “Kinsey Reports,” became best sellers and sparked a firestorm of controversy. Kinsey became an overnight celebrity, with articles about him in Time, Life, Look and McCall’s. Kinsey’s work planted the seed for the sexual revolution of the 1960’s.                                                                        

Kinsey’s findings on homosexuality were among the most widely discussed. His studies found that 37% of American men had at least one homosexual experience. Kinsey devised a scale measuring sexual orientation, now known as the Kinsey Scale. The scale ranges from 0 to 6, with 6 designating someone exclusively homosexual, and 0 signifying someone exclusively heterosexual.                                                                              

In 1947, Kinsey founded the Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University—now the Kinsey Institute—one of the leading academic centers on human sexuality.

For more information about Alfred Kinsey: 

Bibliography

"Alfred Kinsey." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 27 May 2009

"Kinsey, Alfred C." GLBTQ: gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender & queer encyclopedia. 28 May 2009

"The Kinsey Institute - Kinsey Bio.” The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. 27 May 2009

"The Kinsey Institute - Photo History." Indiana University Bloomington. 27 May 2009

"The Sexual Revolution, 1960-1980." GLBTQ: gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender & queer encyclopedia. 28 May 2009

Books by Alfred Kinsey

Gall Wasp Genus Cynips: A Study in the Origin of Species (1930)

Methods in Biology (1937)

Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948)

Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1948)

Concepts of Normality and Abnormality in Sexual Behavior (1949)

Sex Offenders (1965)

Films about Alfred Kinsey

Sex the Measure of All Things: A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey (2000)

Kinsey (2004)

American Experience: Kinsey (2005)

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“..it was important because it made queer people believe that they could have a voice.”

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Stonewall instigators Silvia Rivera (far left) and Marsha Johnson (with umbrella) protesting for 475 – a comprehensive LGBT rights bill – which followed the Stonewall Riot in 1971 and 1972.

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There was a gang of homosexual vigilantes in 1970s San Francisco that roamed the streets protecting the LGBT community from bashings.

"We just took out our pool cues and started flailing ass." The teen-agers fled into the night, only to return ten minutes later, begging for their car: "Look, man, we don't want no trouble."

-Rev. Ray Broshears

For more information on The Lavender Panthers:

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,908008,00.html

http://www.newsweek.com/2018/02/02/most-dangerous-gay-man-america-789402.html

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Like racism and all forms of prejudice, bigotry against transgender people is a deadly carcinogen. We are pitted against each other in order to keep us from seeing each other as allies. Genuine bonds of solidarity can be forged between people who respect each other's differences and are willing to fight their enemy together. We are the class that does the work of the world, and can revolutionize it. We can win true liberation.

Leslie Feinburg // Transgender Activist and Author of Stone Butch Blues and Transgender Warriors, from Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come, 1992

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Express Yourself

This painting is by Paul Richmond, an artist from Ohio. The entire collection is called “War Paint”, the painting above is called “Battleground”. Richmond says his collection is all about the challenges masculine conventions. 

Please feel free to view the entire collection and support the artist:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/18/paul-richmond-war-paint_n_5597038.html

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“No longer was the country’s culture in distinct bubbles, but now a uniformed concept.”

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from the archives of the San Fransisco Chronicle, gathered from a series of photos as a tribute to the pioneers of the community, captured in parades between 1972 and 1979.

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The use of the term “lesbian” derives from the poems of Sappho, an ancient Greek female poet who was born on the island of Lesbos and who wrote love poems to other women. Nowadays Lesbos is a popular destination for LGBT tourism for this reason.

“You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us” ― Sappho, The Art of Loving Women

For more information on Sappho:

https://www.liveabout.com/what-is-the-origin-of-the-word-lesbian-2171260

https://www.biographyonline.net/poets/sappho.html