When did the gay civil rights movement begin?

Zenlitened

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Thu Jun-18-09 05:09 PM
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Poll question: When did the gay civil rights movement begin?

Equality, visibility, freedom from discrimination... when did the GLBT community's work on civil rights get started?

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Deja Q

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Thu Jun-18-09 05:11 PM
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1. 1969, the Stonewall riots, right?

Or was it 1968?

Naah, has to be 1969...

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NMMNG

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Thu Jun-18-09 05:24 PM
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2. 1951

Mattachine Society and Daughters of Bilitis. Of course it was illegal and dangerous for them to even exist let alone take any real action so they were largely social groups. It was more than a decade before things began to really move. It's not that we haven't been around and had the desire to change things, it's that it was just not possible. Being gay used to be a capital offense, and even after that changed there were still significant penalties (jail, institutionalization, etc).

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libnnc

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Thu Jun-18-09 07:27 PM
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4. yep

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ThomCat

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Thu Jun-18-09 07:51 PM
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5. +1

Those are courageous people, who came before us!

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bluedawg12

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Thu Jun-18-09 07:52 PM
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6. When gay oppression began

the first couple were subversive by their very existence. :evilgrin:

Otherwise 1951 sounds good to me. :D

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NMMNG

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Thu Jun-18-09 08:44 PM
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7. We've been oppressed for millenia

And by all rights, as you said, merely surviving could be considered subversive; something too few people understand. But as far as "official" struggles go....

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Ian David

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Thu Jun-18-09 05:25 PM
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3. Gay Rights started with Jesus when he threw-out Leviticus....

Edited on Thu Jun-18-09 05:26 PM by Ian David

... and let all those Apostles "wash his feet" all the time.

Not to mention Jesus blessed a gay union.

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