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Feb 20

LGBTQ*  Documentaries You Should Know

Before Stonewall (1984)

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Jan 21

We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths – that all of us are created equal – is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth. — President Obama (Inaugural Speech, 2013)

- Our President mentioned women’s equality, racial equality, and queer* equality all in one sentence, without caution, with full support, and echoing the need to remember and push forward. Stonewall was mentioned in a presidential speech, an inaugural speech. I am - Wow. Thank you, Mr. President, for remembering so many of us today. — Rebecca, creator of KNOWhomo.tumblr

Posted 4 months ago

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Jun 27

LGBTQ* History in Pictures - Pride Edition #2

PRIDE History in Graphics & Pictures

Photos of gatherings year(s) after the Stonewall Riots (first Pride events of the 1970s)

*please note: images are not mine 

Posted 10 months ago

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Jun 26

LGBTQ* History in Pictures - Pride Edition #1

PRIDE History in Graphics & Pictures

Photos of the 1969 Stonewall Riots (including days after)

*please note: images are not mine 

Posted 11 months ago

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Jun 22

At last we came to the Sheep Meadow, our feet hot and tired. I got to the crest of a small knoll before I turned around. There behind us, in a river that seemed endless, poured wave after wave of happy faces. The Gay Nation was coming out into the light! There was hardly a dry eye on the hill. What had begun as a few hardy hundred had swollen all along its route, until we filled half the huge meadow with the networks and newspapers estimated as five to fifteen thousand people, all gay and proud of it!” — Arnie Kantrowitz

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LGBTQ* (PRIDE) History You Should Know



New York City’s first Pride reactions


quote from: McGarry, Molly, and Fred Wasserman. “There’s a Riot Going On.” Becoming Visible: An Illustrated History of Lesbian and Gay Life in Twentieth-century America. New York: Penguin Studio, 1998. 16-17. 

Posted 11 months ago

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Jun 19
LGBTQ* Phrases You Should Know The Rumor* Of: “Friend of Dorothy” Friend(s) of Dorothy (FOD) was a slang term used within the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual community of the 1950’s. Judy Garland was one of the first celebrities to embrace her gay fans and the Wizard of Oz was viewed as a “gay” fairy tale for many queer Americans at the time. The Stonewall Riots also occurred immediately after Judy Garland’s passing while many people were in mourning. Some claim that police brutality, homophobia and Garland’s death were all triggers for fighting back the night of the riots.  The phrase was often used as the password to enter gay establishments. *Friend of Dorothy may have roots as “Friend of Dorothy Parker” before becoming a slang term for the L. Frank Baum character.

LGBTQ* Phrases You Should Know

The Rumor* Of: “Friend of Dorothy”


Friend(s) of Dorothy (FOD) was a slang term used within the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual community of the 1950’s.

Judy Garland was one of the first celebrities to embrace her gay fans and the Wizard of Oz was viewed as a “gay” fairy tale for many queer Americans at the time. The Stonewall Riots also occurred immediately after Judy Garland’s passing while many people were in mourning. Some claim that police brutality, homophobia and Garland’s death were all triggers for fighting back the night of the riots. 

The phrase was often used as the password to enter gay establishments.


*Friend of Dorothy may have roots as “Friend of Dorothy Parker” before becoming a slang term for the L. Frank Baum character.

Posted 11 months ago

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Jun 17

Dearest Tumblr Family and Friends,


Happy Pride Month! Keep On, Keeping On!


Your Friend of Dorothy,

KNOWhomo (Rebecca)

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May 24

LBGTQ* Pride History and Insight

Forty Years After Stonewall


Youtube Discription: Historian Tim McCarthy, director of Human Rights and Social Movements program at Harvard, sees pros and cons to using the riots as a point of origin for the gay rights movement.


Personal Note:

I cannot agree more with his discussion about the lacking understanding and education of lgbtq* history. This blog started because I wanted to push my understanding deeper. This history is really important for me. Had I not started KNOWhomo’s page, I may have never learned about Lisa Ben typing and creating the first lesbian publication in the US, or Henry Gerber’s work in Chicago which predates the Mattachine Society, or The Black Cat Tavern or Compton Cafeteria Riots which both occurred BEFORE Stonewall.

This is my history as a queer* woman. I have to seek it. It isn’t supplied in grade school (or almost any college) textbooks. It is very fragmented. 

Should there be a push for more dialogue/discussions/history?

What do you think?

Posted 12 months ago

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Mar 16
LGBTQ* History Through Photography Outside of the Stonewall Inn — Following the 1969 Riots Mattachine Society’s plea *photographer: Fred W. McDarrah

LGBTQ* History Through Photography

Outside of the Stonewall Inn — Following the 1969 Riots

Mattachine Society’s plea

*photographer: Fred W. McDarrah

Posted 1 year ago

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Feb 21
LGBTQ* History Through Photos Stonewall Inn Riots

LGBTQ* History Through Photos

Stonewall Inn Riots

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Jun 1
LGBTQ June Recommended Reading Stonewall Martin Bauml Duberman (Author)     From Publishers Weekly A police raid on the Stonewall, an unlicensed Greenwich Village gay bar, set off a series of riots in the summer of 1969 that mark the birth of the modern gay and lesbian political movement. Duberman ( Paul Robeson ) re-examines this event through the vibrant, intertwined portraits of six people—two lesbians, three gay men, one transvestite—whose lives converged at the Stonewall Rebellion and in the militant movement it spawned. Politically, his six subjects run the gamut from ex-priest Jim Fouratt—a leftist and Yippie cohort of Abbie Hoffman—to Foster Gunnison, who devoted his energies to moderate gay causes and later became a conservative. Yvonne Flowers, a black feminist, overcame her suspicion that the gay movement was not open to people of color, while transvestite Sylvia Rivers faced hostility from lesbians. Duberman, himself gay, exposes schisms in gay liberation that pitted gay men against lesbians, male chauvinists against feminists, whites against blacks. Photos. First serial to Grand Street; QPB selection. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. —This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

LGBTQ June Recommended Reading

Stonewall

Martin Bauml Duberman (Author)

 

 

From Publishers Weekly

A police raid on the Stonewall, an unlicensed Greenwich Village gay bar, set off a series of riots in the summer of 1969 that mark the birth of the modern gay and lesbian political movement. Duberman ( Paul Robeson ) re-examines this event through the vibrant, intertwined portraits of six people—two lesbians, three gay men, one transvestite—whose lives converged at the Stonewall Rebellion and in the militant movement it spawned. Politically, his six subjects run the gamut from ex-priest Jim Fouratt—a leftist and Yippie cohort of Abbie Hoffman—to Foster Gunnison, who devoted his energies to moderate gay causes and later became a conservative. Yvonne Flowers, a black feminist, overcame her suspicion that the gay movement was not open to people of color, while transvestite Sylvia Rivers faced hostility from lesbians. Duberman, himself gay, exposes schisms in gay liberation that pitted gay men against lesbians, male chauvinists against feminists, whites against blacks. Photos. First serial to Grand Street; QPB selection.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

—This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Posted 1 year ago

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