Lgbtq+ protest
By Emily Sullivan, Historian
June is Pride Month, a celebration of the LGBTQ+ group and the freedom of LGBTQ+ individuals to be themselves. While the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the cancellation of most Event events, we can still take time to mirror on the history of Pride, and how members of the LGBTQ+ people have fought for their rights and visibility.
The Stonewall Inn. Marsha P. Johnson, a prominent activist in New York City’s queer community, is credited by some as one of the first people to throw a projectile during the Stonewall Riots, although Johnson personally denied the claim. Learn more about her life and legacy here. Source: Wikimedia
Pride is held in June to commemorate the Stonewall Uprising, a series of riots that began on June 28, 1969 at the Stonewall Inn in Unused York City’s Greenwich Village. Prior to the riots, American gay rights activists favored methods that emphasized nonviolence and education on how gay people could assimilate into American population. By the late 1960s, the atmosphere was ripe for change. Years of Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam War protests, combined with the rising popularity of counterculture, prompted gay people fe
In this course, we will explore the political and politicized lives of woman loving woman, gay, bisexual, genderqueer, and queer peoples living in the United States, focusing on the period from World War II to the present. Centering an intersectional framework and historical critique of “progress,” we will focus our attention on the interrelationship between protest (how LGBTQ+ people acquire come out and organized themselves), politics (how LGBTQ+ people hold confronted and navigated the “culture wars”), and policy (how Gay people have challenged and shaped laws and legislation) from the Homophile Generation (1940s and 1950s) to the Stonewall Generation (1960s and 1970s) to the AIDS Generation (1980s and 1990s) to the Marriage Generation (2000s and 2010s) and beyond. We will explore significant movement moments, investigate a diverse range of change agents, and analyze specific legal and legislative inflection points. Continuing and targeted discrimination against LGBTQ+ people is a pressing modern phenomenon, yet too often it is altogether ignored or treated as an afterthought in discussions and debates about human rights, social justice, regulation and public policy—despite the fact that su
GLAAD joined over 1,000 people on Friday, February 14 at the Stonewall National Monument in Modern York City’s West Village to demonstrate the Trump Administration’s removal of gender nonconforming and queer Americans from the Stonewall National Monument official government website.
The online announcement for the protest described its purpose: “NO LGB WITHOUT THE T. The Trump Administration has erased transsexual people from the stonewall national monument website… we will not allow Trump and his hatemongers to redefine our communities or our history!”
The rally lasted for over an hour and was hosted by Jay W. Walker, a co-founder of the Reclaim Pride Coalition. The lineup included a diverse array of speakers from the community.
Erik Bottcher, NYC City Council Member for District 3 and a relentless advocate for LGBTQ people, addressed the crowd: “We are here to send a letter to Donald Trump: We will not let you erase the existence of our trans siblings. We will not let you cleave our community apart and divide us. We are one community. And now is the hour for gays and lesbians and cisgender members of our community to be upright up against what is happening. … We will defeat, because we always win in
How Police Have Failed Queer Communities
These occurrences of rule enforcement violence constitute just some of the many ways in which Diverse people are harmed by those supposedly tasked with perpetuating justice. Over-policing and criminal justice system discrimination also disproportionately impact Queer people — particularly Diverse people of color, who endure cross-cutting discrimination that has myriad unjust consequences.
LGBTQ+ people have historically experienced disparate police harm and been targeted while facing bias across every layer of our public guard system. For example, regulation enforcement officials have disproportionately profiled transgender people on the basis of their appearance, clothing, and for doing innocuous things, appreciate traveling to school. Same-sex attracted men have also been unjustly targeted by rule enforcement for decades, with police engaging in undercover operations specifically aiming to criminalize same-sex conduct. Throughout history, police raided bars frequented by LGBTQ+ people not only in Fresh York City, but throughout the country.
Members of Homosexual communities not only tackle disparate police harm, they are also underserved by law enforcement. Indeed,
Protesters rallied outside Trump Tower in New York Municipality over the federal government's plan to end the 988 suicide prevention lifeline's option for LGBTQ+ youth next week.
The rally outside President Trump's home on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan started at 12:30 p.m. Saturday.
988 suicide lifeline option for LGBTQ+ callers to be terminated
The Trump administration ordered the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline to shut down its Diverse suicide prevention service next week.
Advocates argue the 988 hotline's specialized affirming counselors are crucial mental health resources for LGBTQ+ youth across the U.S. Discontinuing it would directly impact more than 1.3 million children in crisis, they said.
A Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson told CBS News the specialized option, which is managed by a third party outside the federal government, ran out of congressionally directed funding.
"On July 17, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline will no longer silo LGB+ youth services, also known as the 'Press 3 option,' to highlight on serving all help seekers, including those previously served through the Press 3 option," a prior stat