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Today in LGBT History--July 2
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Peace from Sylvia Rivera, quoted below
1953: The Los Angeles Herald-Express reports that the state department in California had fired 531 sex perverts and other security risks. The number of homosexuals fired was 425. Note: during the McCarthyist period from 1947 to 1953 more people lost their jobs for being homosexual than for involvement with the Communist party.
1969: Responding to the fourth consecutive night of ongoing Stonewall demonstrations on Christopher Street New York police arrived and beat the demonstrators with nightsticks, leaving many bleeding and some unconscious.
1970: A group of American Lutheran leaders issues a statement calling for an end to sodomy laws and the passage of legislation prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
1974: In Winnipeg, Manitoba, Derksen Printers refuses to print Understanding Homosexuality, an educational publication by Gays for Equality. Group pickets printing plant.
1975: During a joint meeting of the National Organization of Women, the Austin Women's Political Caucus and Women's Equality Action League, the Austin Lesbian Organization is invited to give a presentation on lesbianism.
1985: First meeting of Heterosexuals Unafraid of Gays (HUG) in Wellington, New Zealand.
1986: By only a single vote New Zealand's parliament allows final debate to begin on a proposed law to lower the age of consent for gay sex to 16 and legalize gay sex. The bill eventually passes.
1989: Employees of the US Internal Revenue Service who were members of the National Treasury Employee's Union receive a new contract which included protection from discrimination based on sexual orientation. (Further proof the US government doesn't care who the tax department fucked.)
1994: Italy's "First National Demonstration of Gay and Lesbian Pride" takes place in Rome, along with sustained participation of the Transsexual movement.
2001: A national conference on homophobic bullying in British schools opens at Manchester University sponsored by School's Out!
Today’s Birthdays….
1939: Ludwig Alexander Hirtreiter, aka Rex Gildo, German singer of 'schlagers', born in Munich.
1959: Erwin Olaf Springveld, aka Erwin Olaf, Dutch photographer.
"I'm not missing a minute of this. It's the revolution!" --Sylvia Rivera, as she charged the police in the Stonewall riots of 1969.
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