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Janet Thomas

Women overlooked in civil rights movement - US news - Life - Race & ethnicity | NBC News - 1 views

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  • Janet Thomas on 10 Sep 13
     
    This page on the NBC news website offers a surprising twist to the story of the Civil Rights Movement. It brings up a great point, why is Rosa Parks one of the only women we know about as an icon of that era? Racial equality was being fought for by those in the Civil Rights movement but what about gender equality? This story gives us more to think about when we look at the image of Rosa Parks and the white man on the bus.
melissa basso

A brief history of the Gay Liberation Front, 1970-73 | libcom.org - 0 views

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  • On the 27th June, 1969 as part of its policy of raiding and closing Gay Bars, the New York Police arrived at the Stonewall Inn to rough up the customers
  • riot that spread throughout the West Village,
  • moved to the Alternative University in Greenwich Village where they founded what became the Gay Liberation Front.
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  • 13th October, 1970
  • “Not only did liberationists go to Philadelphia to show solidarity with the black movement, but it was there that Huey Newton as leader of the Panthers, first gave clear support of the Gay Cause, saying that homosexuals were maybe the most oppressed people of American society, and could well be the most revolutionary.”1
  • In February ’72 the women formally split from gay lib.
  • In December the GLF Demands & Principles were agreed on, and in October of ’71 the publication of the GLF Manifesto. “Gay shows the way. In some ways we are already outside the family and we have already, in part at least, rejected the ‘masculine’ or ‘feminine’ role society has designed for us. In a society dominated by the sexist culture it is very difficult, if not impossible, for heterosexual men and women to escape their rigid gender-role structuring and the roles of oppressor and oppressed.
  • In July ’72 the first Gay Pride march left Trafalgar Square and marched to Hyde Park for the Gay Pride Party, with over a thousand in attendance, and accompanied by two thousand police.
  • Psychiatric Establishments wholesale acceptance of Judeo Christian prejudice, Biblical authority, and the use of electric shock/emetic drug programmes on gays and lesbians who did not fit in, or who were found guilty of breaking the law
  • Overwhelmed in numbers and ignored by gay men generally, they decided to work separately.
  • melissa basso on 04 Nov 13
     
    The stories surrounding gay liberation, protests and marches that set the platform for gay and lesbian acceptance. 
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Sexism's Puzzling Stamina - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • raptly awaited decisions about affirmative action and gay marriage
  • gender — and all the recent reminders of how often women are still victimized, how potently they’re still resented and how tenaciously a musty male chauvinism endures.
  • We’re congratulating ourselves on the historic high of 20 women in the Senate, even though there are still four men to every one of them and, among governors, nine men to every woman.
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  • The idea that professional and domestic concerns can’t be balanced isn’t confined to the tube. A recent Pew Research Center report showing that women had become the primary providers in 40 percent of American households with at least one child under 18 prompted the conservative commentators Lou Dobbs and Erick Erickson to fret, respectively, over the dissolution of society and the endangerment of children.
  • The country is now on its third attempt at a commercially viable women’s soccer league. The Women’s National Basketball Association lags far behind the men’s N.B.A. in visibility and revenue.
  • Our racial bigotry has often been tied to the ignorance abetted by unfamiliarity, our homophobia to a failure to realize how many gay people we know and respect.
  • women are in the next cubicle, across the dinner table, on the other side of the bed. Almost every man has a mother he has known and probably cared about; most also have a wife, daughter, sister, aunt or niece as well. Our stubborn sexism harms and holds back them, not strangers. Still it survives.
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