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This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the s. The Gay Pride Flag, symbol of the Rights Movement, was first flown in in San Francisco. This is the version flying over the Castro in June Private, consensual same-sex activity was decriminalized in England and Wales in [1].

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Marsha P. Johnson, part of the “vanguard” during the Stonewall riots, was a prominent figure of the gay liberation movement. She and Sylvia Rivera created the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) house in to advocate for and provide housing, food, and clothing to LGBTQ homeless youth. George Dudley, a photographer and artist who also served as the first director of New York City’s Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, documented scenes from pride parades in New York.

Leitsch used to collect mentions of the “homophile movement,” a term that preceded the modern gay-rights vocabulary. “Clipping files make me a little crazy,” Baumann said, and shut the drawer. But hardest hit, especially in those early days, were gay and bi men and the transgender women who had sex with them. The experiences of students, faculty and staff in decades past were often not documented and sometimes actively hidden due to homophobia and discrimination.

This once-a-semester newsletter was published by the Duke Gay Alliance between and The Chronicle reported on Nov. It was approved unanimously. The next day, an unsigned editorial in the Chroniclecriticized the conditions in which gay students endured at Duke. Homosexuality needs no defense. It is a reality as concrete as heterosexuality. We affirm the validity of our lives.

A homosexual is as capable of a productive and meaningful life as a straight person, when his right to live his own life is recognized.

On the contrary, we exist in all walks of life, all professions, with a full spectrum of social, political, and economic ideas, and a wide range of lifestyles. The Gay Morning Star included a mix of editorials, information about meetings and resources, poetry, and scholarly writing. We eat with you. We play Frisbee with you. We get high with you. We are women and men who believe it is beautiful to express love and affection and friendship rather than repress it due to fear of stereotyped and outmoded notions of sexuality, masculinity, and femininity.

No single generalization about the nature of Gay people can be applied to all Gay people. It is no more possible to stereotype Gays than it is to stereotype, say, all registered voters. In November , the second issue came out, and some of the articles included names or initials. The articles described the difficulty of being openly gay at Duke.

Most of the articles in the first two issues appear to be written by men. As a result, many of the women in DGA have preferred to transfer their allegiance and their political energies to local Lesbian-feminist groups. Other women have felt an obligation to continue their active support of DGA. Our thanks to the straights and gays — well over strong — who helped make the event a great success.

Today, Duke commits to non-discrimination of students, faculty and staff of all sexual and gender identities, and the Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity CSGD provides a space where queer Dukies can gather. Fifty years ago, it was students themselves who created new spaces to talk about sexuality and gay liberation. The Gay Morning Star, although published for only a few years, serves as a testament to their efforts to make Duke a more inclusive place.

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