- Peter Tatchell’s comments on “Gordon Brown’s hypocrisy on gay rights” – http://bit.ly/o1Qnr #
- Most important and influential UK LGBT people – http://bit.ly/cCkbQ #
- Now Recruiting! Be a part of the Great London Same-Sex Hand Holding (SSHH) Relay – Saturday July 25, 2009 – http://ow.ly/g21Q RT @adayinhand #
- Uprising at Stonewall Inn 6/28/1969: Learn about the riots that sparked the gay revolution. http://tinyurl.com/mr7ytw RT @queerunity #
Interesting sounding documentary on Radio 2 on Tuesday night…
Stonewall: The Riots That Triggered the Gay Revolution
Tuesday, 22:30 on BBC Radio 2
In June 1969 a police raid on a gay bar in Greenwich Village exploded into a night of violent protest. What followed was a week of rioting with pitched battles between the New York gay community and riot police. It was a watershed in gay history which inspired a new militant phase in the gay rights movement. Forty years on, Tom Robinson asks why the word Stonewall still has such a powerful resonance for gay people around the world.
During the 1960s homosexuality was still classified as a mental illness in the US, with “sufferers” subject to frequent victimisation from the police and society at large. As a private members bar, the Stonewall offered a refuge of sorts where gay people were allowed to dance freely together. When police entered the bar shortly after midnight on a hot and humid Friday night in 1969, it exploded in unprecedented fashion.
Contributors include Seymour Pine, the policeman who led the raid; and Howard Smith, the journalist stuck inside when the crowd turned on the police and attempted to set fire to the Stonewall Inn. There are also eye-witness from the rioters themselves and we learn how the rallying in subsequent months led to a sea change in gay rights activism and the establishment of the annual Gay Pride parade to mark the riots.
Also featuring previously unheard archive interviews with late activists Craig Rodwell and Barbara Gittings. And we return to the Stonewall Inn, as it is today, to find out what resonance the word Stonewall has for the next generation of gay people. In 2009 has the battle been won?
- Rainbow the bus & Q:alliance youth group have been busy getting ready for London Pride – http://www.pinkpunters.com/rainbow/ @PinkPunters #
- Looking for something to do tonight? Join the Secklow 100 LGBT group, upstairs in the Secklow on Midsummer Boulevard in Milton Keynes #
- Best 100 LGBT Blogs – http://bit.ly/KTcuX #
- TransLondon to march at Pride ‘under protest’ http://bit.ly/oYwmI RT @gayscots: RT @GFest #
- Have your say about how local health services are run in MK – http://www.miltonkeynes.nhs.uk/consultation.htm #nhs #miltonkeynes #
- HIV QuickTesting is available in Milton Keynes – http://bit.ly/o3W7d
#hiv #miltonkeynes # - Codebreaker, architect of the algorithm and modern computation,AI contributor & gay man AlanTuring was born today in 1912. RT @lgfoundation #
- Varla Jean Merman’s Stonewall – http://bit.ly/XSvme
- if only all history lessons were like this! #stonewall # - This week marks the 40th Anniversary of the #Stonewall Riots – http://bit.ly/EqieF #
- Famous Gay People – including gay celebrities, gay politicians, historians & artists at http://www.famousandgay.com/a.html in reply to vonIrrwegen RT @vonIrrwegen #
- Online Dating Tips for Gay Dating http://bit.ly/pjOPJ #gay #lesbian #dating http://www.gayscots.co.uk RT @gayscots in reply to gayscots #
- Event in Beds to launch findings of the Bedfordshire & Luton LGBT Consultation Report – http://bit.ly/sd3XD #
There are some really good discussions going on at the Gay MK Yahoo! Group about starting up some new social opportunites for LGBT people in Milton Keynes. To join the discussion and get something going you can sign up at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gaymk/.
If you know of any LGBT social groups in Milton Keynes or Buckinghamshire, do let us know, we’d love to tell people about them!
The LGBT Domestic Abuse Project (www.lgbtdomesticabuse.org.uk) and the Scottish Transgender Alliance (www.scottishtrans.org) are doing a survey to look at transgender people’s experience of domestic abuse. Please download the following and send it back to Pamela.clocherty {at} lgbtyouth.org(.)uk by June 25th.
Trans DA Survey.doc (494KB).
