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Jordan Hunter The New Left: A Movement of Change Some people have characterized the New Left as an era of youth revolts and radical movements. However, the New Left was a combination of everything that took place through the 1950’s to the mid 1970’s. It was an age that consisted of women and gays questioning their roles and rights in society to African Americans fighting to gain equal rights and ban segregation. Many people in the world today and back then would argue that there is no such thing

movement’s birth. Before Stonewall, there were leftist lobbyists in the Mattachine Society pushing for law reform and there was the lesbian organization, Daughters of Bilitis, who published The Ladder in order to garner acceptance in society.9 This homophile movement was conservative in its actions, working within the system’s rules in effort to gain societal acceptance.9 In the summer of 1969, a routine police raid of Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York, incited fierce physical resistance from the

San Francisco, California is widely recognized a gay mecca, even a “refugee camp for homoxexuals,” but such wide-spread acceptance of all that strays from the heteronormative was not easily earned. The modern queer identity is one that is rich in culture and history- a history that is much longer than previously believed. The American LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer, intersex, asexual, and more) community has fought for recognition since Europeans first landed in the Americas

The LGBTQ movement had more SMOs when compared to women’s movement, but they still had less than the civil rights movement. Daughters of Bilitis were a group of lesbians get together and discuss what they have been through. Another group was Homophile activist groups their main goals were to bring homosexuals together, educate them, provide

The evolution of the gay pride parade Over the past 42 years, annual gay pride parades have become tradition in dozens of cities worldwide. They have evolved from radical marches to enjoyable festivals of celebrations with elaborate floats, and notable participants. This annual parade has been a way of celebrating LGBT history and diversity. These gay pride parades haven’t always been all happy, and full of beautiful rainbows though. In the beginning, 1969, they were portrayed as somber marches taking

Discrimination is the practice of unfairly treating a person or group of people differently from other people or groups of people. This idea is old as mankind itself. Since the beginning of time, people of a certain group have discriminated against people of the other races, beliefs, sexual preferences, etc. Some examples of equal rights movements which have occurred in America include the women’s suffrage movement, the abolishment of slavery as well as all African American civil rights movements

Words have so many different meanings. Just pick up a dictionary to discover the many different meanings of the same word. Many questions arise when thinking of where a word originated from. This report will allow me to explore the definition of gay and where it originated. I will explain how the word gay has changed over time. As culture changes, so does words as they take on new meanings. The word gay originally had the meaning of being carefree, happy or lighthearted for quite a long time

years ago, homosexual people in China were really active, they wants to get their right to happiness in China too, just like here in America and those countries support gay marriage. "They start all kinds of activities, they want something like homophile movement" (Allen, 2011, p123), which happened in the 1950s, middle-

Throughout the years, the acceptance of homosexuality has been a widely debated topic between common citizens and with America's laws. Should society welcome or outcast them? This was the question on everyone's mind, to which most people before the late 1960’s would favor the latter. In fact, during the mid-1960’s, it was against the law to provide service to someone of gay orientation (Clendinen 22). People of homosexual orientation would not allow others to restrict their rights because of religious

In the first document from the Gosse book, Harry Hay and many former communists in Los Angeles created what they called a “homophile” (a world implying acceptance of homosexuality) organization in 1950, which became known as the Mattachine Society. It’s “Statement of Purpose” was to focus on personal dignity, empowerment, and the gay movement’s eventual turn towards politics, which was highly anticipated in the New Left. In the thirty-ninth document from the Story & Laurie book, The Southern Baptist