Archive for the ‘Pride Series’ Category
The InterstateQ.com Pride Series (2007) explores the history of the pre-Stonewall and modern LGBT Rights Movement. The Pride Series was a special series published during Pride Month, June 2007. Note: Matt does not pretend to be a professional or trained historian :)
Monday, June 25th, 2007
Part Five of the InterstateQ.com Pride Series.
North Carolina certainly may not be like the hot-beds of LGBT community, life and activism like San Francisco or New York City, but we still have plenty of history makers and leaders to be proud of!
From politicians to activists, authors to bloggers and community ...
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
Part Four of the InterstateQ.com Pride Series.
Before 1973, LGBT people were considered to be mentally diseased, sick or ill. Even today, people still believe it.
But history would be made in 1973, when the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its lists of mental diseases contained in its Diagnostic and Statistical ...
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Thursday, June 21st, 2007
Part Three of the InterstateQ.com Pride Series.
It is the "reason for the season."
When police raided the Stonewall Inn in New York City's Greenwich Village on June 27 and 28, 1969, I doubt they thought that this time would be any different from any of the other times they successfully raided ...
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Monday, June 18th, 2007
Part Two of the InterstateQ.com Pride Series.
In Part One of the InterstateQ.com Pride series, "A Few Good Men (and Women)," we briefly discussed and explored the pre-Stonewall LGBT community and early LGBT activism and advocacy during the 1950s.
In Part Two, I wanted to delve further into the issue of the ...
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Monday, June 18th, 2007
Part One of the InterstateQ.com Pride Series.
The time before the Stonewall Riots in June 1969 are usually referred to as "Pre-Stonewall," a time when being "out" as a gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender person was not only rare, but dangerous for many. An openly LGBT person was hardly ever seen ...
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Sunday, June 17th, 2007
June is, of course, celebrated as LGBT Pride Month. The celebration is rooted in history, mainly that of the Stonewall Riots which occurred on the evening of June 27, 1969 through the next morning of June 28 and weeks afterward. The Stonewall Riots marked what history would come to name ...
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