September 7, 1957 - Barbara Gittings organized the first New York meeting held for the Daughters of Bilitis, a pioneer lesbian organization. The group was founded two years earlier in San Francisco.
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July 4, 1965 - The first of an annual picket in front of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall was held by gay and lesbian Americans. Jack Nichols and Frank Kameny and members of the New York and Washington Mattachine Society and the Daughters of Bilitis had earlier demonstrated in Washington, and wished to change the general perception that homosexuals were perverted or sick.
“By those protesters coming out publicly, and placing themselves very strategically in front of the building that evoked the Declaration of Independence and the idea that all men are created equal, it suggested it [gay rights] was no longer a moral or national security or psychiatric issue ... it was a civil-rights issue,” David K. Johnson wrote in The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government.
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May 29, 1965 - In one of the first demonstrations promoting equal treatment of homosexuals, Jack Nichols, Barbara Gittings and others picketed in front of the White House. Gittings' sign read, “Sexual preference is irrelevant to federal employment.”
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#FiftyYears ago, ‘#homosexuality’ was #dropped from #APA’s #list of #mentaldisorders.
#BarbaraGittings & #KayLahusen were #lesbian #activists who emphatically opposed the label. They lived together in #Philadelphia and convinced another #Philadelphian, #gay #psychiatrist Dr. #JohnEFryer, to #address an #APA #annualconvention as #DrHAnonymous in May 1972 in #Dallas, #Texas.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #APA #History #GayRights #Representation #Culture
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39/2023: Lilli Vincenz, 26. September 1937
Wir
https://frauenfiguren.de/2023/09/26/39-2023-lilli-vincenz-26-september-1937/
#Aktivistin #AntiDiskriminierung #Film #Frauenfiguren #Kalender #Kunst #Menschenrechte #Politik #Video #AktivistysDesIntersektionalenFeminismus #AnnualReminders #BarbaraGittings #ColumbiaUniversity #frauenfiguren #GayWomensAlternative #kalender #KayLahusen #lesbianismus #LibraryOfCongress #LilliVincenz #MattachineSociety #pride #stonewall #TheLadder #WashingtonBlade -
May 29, 1965 - In one of the first demonstrations promoting equal treatment of homosexuals, Jack Nichols, Barbara Gittings and others picketed in front of the White House. Gittings' sign read, “Sexual preference is irrelevant to federal employment.”
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16/2023: Ernestine Eckstein, 23. April 1941
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https://frauenfiguren.de/2023/04/23/16-2023-ernestine-eckstein-23-april-1941/
#Aktivistin #Anti-Diskriminierung #Frauenrechte #Menschenrechte #Politik #aktivistysdesintersektionalenfeminismus #barbaragittings #bürgerrechtsbewegung #bwoa #christoperstreetday #daughtersofbilitis #ernestineeckstein #frankkameny #frauenfiguren #kalender #kaylahusen #lillivincenz #makinggayhistory #mattachinesociety #menschenrechtsaktivistin #naacp #theladder