美国同志运动简史（A brief history of the American gay movement）.docVIP

美国同志运动简史（A brief history of the American gay movement） 1 the birth of revolution In 1960s, when the New York gay community to strike out when advocating cultural freedom of Greenwich Village (New York Citys Greenwich Village) has become the last piece of land located in the gay and lesbian; Christopher Street (Christopher Street) Stonewall (Stonewall Inn) although the appearance is not surprising, but provides a let it remove armor, relative calm of freedom for homosexuals, stone so popular. Although there were often police harassment, but it has become difficult to survive in the cracks of the gay and lesbian understanding. Until June 28, 1969, then change all police often and often vexatious finally make once like homosexuals unbearable, after police beat and arrested some come to stonewall entertainment customers, angry crowds surrounded the bar, and the police launched a counterattack. More Greenwich youths were hearing the news, and not all of them were gay, many of whom were outraged by the polices unjust move. From the early morning confrontation lasted two days, the accident was the outbreak of rewriting history -- social revolution for equal rights for LGBT a born. 2 heritage of Stonewall One month after the Stonewall scandal, the first gay pride parade in American history kicked off. The stone wall incident made the homosexual culture, which was in the edge of the land, entered the mainstream society at once, and evolved from a semi underground activity into an open social movement. Although there had been a mart Hin Association (Mattachine Society, founded in 1951) such a community, in order to make heterosexual social acceptance gay lobbying but its influence is not beyond the elite circle, it is difficult to form liaoyuanzhishi. The Stonewall incident made gay rights go towards social consensus, and it was police violence that aroused public awareness. Where there is oppression, there is resistance, which has become a common trend in American gay politi