Wednesday 5/25/22

The LGBTQ
Liberation
Movement
Warm up

Warm up:

What’s one thing that you know about the gay liberation movement?
(when it started, riots)?

What’s one thing you want to know about the gay liberation movement?
and its history (goals)?
Context of the movement
The Gay Liberation was a political
organization, and focused on helping
prevent discrimination against gays in
“industry, media, government, schools,
and churches”.
Ideas and discussion from the
gay community were created
after the Stonewall riots.
urged lesbians and gay men to
engage in radical direct action,
and to counter societal shame
with gay pride.
 The different goals of the movement
In the 1960s to mid 1980s
unfair treatment of lgbt
people were not fair. They
were fired from jobs,
prevented from being
supported by others and
those who did or were
assumed to be part of lgbt
.Gay liberation is also known
for its links to the
counterculture
While police attacks on gay bars
were standard during the 1960s,
officials lost control at the
Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969.
Pressures between New York City
Police and gay citizens of
Greenwich Village emitted into
additional fights for many nights.
 Major organizations, leaders, and political actions/events?
In 1950, harry hay founded the Mattachine
- Morris Kight
Foundation, one of the nation's first gay rights group. was an American gay rights
activist. He is considered one
- Sixty years later that vision developed into a
of the original founders of the
worldwide civil rights movement and inspired gay and lesbian civil rights
the creation of lesbian, gay and transgender movement.
communities on every continent.
 The outcomes of the movement

- Brought success of legal same sex marriage as

years went by
- Justice for equal rights LGBT citizens
- Fair jobs,
- The rise of the gay liberation movement signaled the
end of the homophile approach to gay rights.
Video

https://youtu.be/WcOzarSpTMk
Exit Ticket in Notebook
Questions:

1. Why do you think a vast majority of people would discriminate against

gay people, and what did they do to discriminate them?
2. How did Harry Hay fight against discrimination?
3. How does this movement affect you?
Bibliography

“The Gay Liberation Movement.” Bill of Rights Institute,

https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/the-gay-liberation-mov
ement.
“The Gay Liberation Movement.” Making History, 29 Sept. 2017,
https://info.umkc.edu/makinghistory/the-gay-liberation-movem
ent/.
“Gay Liberation.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 19 May
2022, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_liberation.