2025 NYC Pride Guide - Flipbook - Page 22
1977
1979
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Anita Bryant’s
that fo
When
Councilmember
At every stop, local queer activists
Hateful Roadshow
center
Dan
White
murdered
Harvey
Milk
protested her appearance. In Des
anger
(one
of
the
first
and
most
famous
In 1977, singer and beauty queen
Moines, Iowa, Bryant received a pie
ful Ma
out
elected
officials
in
America),
Anita Bryant campaigned around to the face while on NBC television,
to cha
he was given a lenient sentence
the country to garner support to
and in Houston, more than 10,000
betwe
because of his consumption of
repeal an anti-discrimination ordi- people turned up to protest her
nity an
junk food (the original “Twinkie
nance that protected queer people appearance at the Texas State Bar Defense”).
San Fr
in Dade County, Florida
Association.
police
From Des Moines. Iowa to Houston,
Texas
San Francisco
Photo Credit: Associated Press
1988
Rockville, Maryland
1999
2021
202
Boston and San Francisco
Food & Drug
Administration Takeover
Washington, D.C.
Florida an
Transgender Day
of Remembrance
Nellie’s Bar Block Party
Queer You
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) was the most visible and well known of the many
grassroots organizations that
sprang up to fight AIDS in the
face of government neglect and
homophobia in the 1980s. In
1988, furious at the slow rate of
drug tests and approvals, over
1,500 activists from around the
country infiltrated the Food
and Drug Administration (FDA)
at the Maryland headquarters.
Many of their demands would
become FDA policy a year later.
In the late ‘90s, Rita Hester
and Chanelle Picket, two Black
transgender women, were
murdered in the Boston area. In
response, their friends organized the first Transgender Day
of Remembrance (TDoR), a
simultaneous action in Boston
and San Francisco to honor
the lives and losses of the trans
community. To this day, TDoR is
observed on November 20 each
year, the day Chanelle Picket
was murdered.
In 2021, footage emerged of a
Black woman being dragged
by her hair out of Nellie’s Bar, a
popular queer bar in Washington, D.C. that had been plagued
with allegations of racism for
years. In response, the Black
queer community
organized a block party protest
outside the bar, which caused
the owners to briefly shut the
space down for “sensitivity
training.”
In 2021 and
states aroun
banned LGB
and made it
ers to discu
topics in cla
the hardest
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ment experi
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