1970 lgbtq resource guide
LGBTQ+ Pride Month Resource Guide
The Stonewall Uprising of 1969 [Library of Congress]
In 1969, the Stonewall Inn was one of the most popular gay bars in New York City. Throughout the state it was illegal to work for alcohol to a gay person until 1966, and in 1969, homosexuality was still considered a criminal offense. This led many gay establishments to operate sans liquor license, providing an open door for raids and police brutality. The Stonewall Inn was owned by the mafia, and as extended as they continued to make a profit, they cared very little about what happened to their clientele. The police raids on gay bars and spaces were not isolated to the East and West coasts, but were a phenomenon happening across the U.S. during this time.
The first Pride pride was held on June 28 1970, the one year anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. Principal sources provide detailed information about how this first Identity festival march was planned, and the reasons why activists felt so strongly that it should live. To get planning underway, activists formed the Christopher Lane Liberation Day Committee. From the outset, the committee defined its aim of holding a large ma
The University of Rochester has figured in local Queer community organizations since the formation of the Homosexual Liberation Front in 1970 by a group of U of R undergraduates and individuals from the greater Rochester community. Most of RBSCP’s LGBTQ+ collections focus on the life of young gay cisgender men, the political fight for gay and female homosexual rights at both a grassroots community level and a state and national level, and the impact, advocacy, and ephemera of the AIDS crisis. RBSCP also holds the collection of Margaret “Midge” Costanza, Rochester’s first councilwoman and later Presidential Advisor to Jimmy Carter, and the professional papers of other politicians who helped advance gay rights at the state and national level. The majority of the material dates from the 1970s-1980s.
We are working to grow our collections in more inclusive ways by developing better metadata and description for personal collections of local activists in the gay rights movement, and on securing the preservation of personal memoirs and materials of this pivotal time in national and Rochester history. We are actively seeking to increase the representation of LGBTQ+ peo
"June 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of annual Gay Pride traditions. The first Pride march in Fresh York City was held on June 28, 1970 on the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual Pride Month (LGBT Pride Month) is celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan. The Stonewall riots were a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement. In the U.S. the last Sunday in June was initially celebrated as “Gay Pride Day."
In major cities across the nation the “day” soon encompassed a month-long series of events. Today, celebrations incorporate pride parades, picnics, workshops, symposia and concerts, and LGBT Pride Month events attract millions of participants around the planet. Memorials are held during this month for those who have been lost to hate crimes or HIV/AIDS. This commemorative month recognizes the impact that lesbian, gay, bi-curious and transgender individuals hold had on history locally, nationally, and internationally."
Source: Library of Congress (2020), "About LGBTQ NYC Trans Oral History Project Making Homosexual History Podcast Digital Gender nonconforming Archive (Image via Yes! Magazine and Wikimedia Commons) LGBTQIA+ history is robust, complicated, and diverse. Pride is a month-long nationwide celebration of this past and occurs every June in honor of the Stonewall Riots, or Stonewall Uprising. In June of 1969, a collective of largely transgender, Ebony, and Latinx queer people reacted and rebelled during a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in downtown New York Municipality. Police raids of gender non-conforming spaces were very frequent during this period and often resulted in mass arrests without cause. The resistance lasted for several days and, the accompanying year, was honored and remembered with a solidarity march through that similar neighborhood and central Manhattan. This first march, the Christopher Street Liberation Time March, occurred on the same day as the beginning of Stonewall – June 28th, 1970. Though there were numerous similar uprisings throughout the 50s and 60s, like the Compton's Cafeteria Riot in San Francisco in 1966 and Cooper Do-nuts Riot in Los Angeles in 1959, Stonewall has historically emerged as the one most closely linked to the origin of Self-acceptance. Across the world, Celebration events occur eve
The Unused York Public Library has collaborated with the NYC Transgender Oral History Project,"to collect, preserve, and share oral histories from our city's transgender and gender non-conforming communities." Heed to these strong stories that talk about everything from race to dis/ability to housing migration. Tune in to the story of Jay Toole, as she describes her experience of queer homelessness and choosing her control queer family.
This podcast, produced by Eric Marcus, highlights important voices from all points of LGBTQ history, based on his decades-old recorded interviews housed by The Novel York Public Library. Through in-depth interviews you can catch the stories from LGBTQ champions, such as Dick Leitsch, Paulette Goodman, and Morris Foote. The New York General Library is arrogant to hold many of the archival collections from a number of the podcast guests as well as Eric Marcus, who documented the LGBTQ movement through his writings, public talks, and TV productions.
"The purpose of the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) is to amplify the accessibility of trans LGBTQIA+ Resources