📁 Annual Reminders
The 1950s and 1960s in the United States was an extremely repressive legal and social period for LGBT people.
The 1950s and 1960s in the United States was an extremely repressive legal and social period for LGBT people.
In this context American homophile organizations such as the Daughters of Bilitis and the Mattachine Society coordinated some of the earliest demonstrations of the modern LGBT rights movement.
These two organizations in particular carried out pickets called "Annual Reminders" to inform and remind Americans that #LGBT people did not receive basic civil rights protections. Annual Reminders began in 1965 and took place each July 4 at Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
📁 "#Gay is Good"
The anti-LGBT discourse of these times equated both male and female homosexuality with mental illness.
The anti-LGBT discourse of these times equated both male and female homosexuality with mental illness.
Inspired by Stokely Carmichael's "Black is Beautiful", gay civil rights pioneer and participant in the Annual Reminders Frank Kameny originated the slogan "Gay is Good" in 1968 to counter social stigma and personal feelings of guilt and shame.
📁 Christopher Street Liberation Day
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