[Historic Gay Liberation Sites and Dates]
- Title:
- [Historic Gay Liberation Sites and Dates]
- Alternate Title:
- [Historic Gay Liberation Sites and Dates]
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Mattachine Society of the Niagara Frontier
- Date:
- 1976
- Posted Date:
- 2024-04-25
- ID Number:
- 2495.01
- File Name:
- PJM_2495_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1960 - Present
- Subject:
- Other Moral & Social
Politics & Government - Measurement:
- 21 x 40 on 27 x 42 sheet (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- In July 1976, the "5th Freedom - Publication of the Buffalo Gay Community" published an edition celebrating the nation's 200th anniversary (and dated "July 1776"). The principal story in this edition was an article by Tim Denesha entitled "History of Gay Liberation in America," which disputed the notion that "the American Gay Liberation movement was born at the Stonewall Riots of June 1969." Denesha argued that "the energy which has fired [the movement's] spectacular burgeoning since 1969 was generated during [the] secret years of growing consciousness" dating back as far as the Alabama Mardi Gras of 1702 (which expanded "primarily as a public high drag event"). This map on the magazine's front and back covers supports Densha's article by identifying a number of specific dates and locations of important events he mentions in the history of LGBT rights in America.
Some of the references on the map are specific to people important in differing ways to the movement: Harriet Tubman (1860s); George Washington Carver (1870s); New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker (1902); Magnus Hirshfield, who founded world's first gay liberation organization in Germany in 1897 and lectured in the United States in the 1930s. Others refer to pioneering organizations little known today: the Society for Human Rights (Chicago 1925); Ordo Templi Orientes (New York 1930); Bachelors for [Henry] Wallace (the Progressive Party candidate for President in 1948); and a number of groups founded in California beginning in 1945. Still others refer to government action, including the first state repeal of a consenual sodomy law (Illinois 1961) and legislation in California in 1975. The map thus pulls together a number of threads from Denesha's article and displays them in a single, clear image.
Cornell University Library is pleased to present this digital collection of Persuasive Maps, the originals of which have been collected and described by the private collector PJ Mode. The descriptive information in the “Collector’s Notes” has been supplied by Mr. Mode and does not necessarily reflect the views of Cornell University. - Source:
- 5th Freedom, July 1776 [1976]. Buffalo, NY: Mattachine Society of the Niagara Frontier.
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.