Lgbtq liberation 1993
Queer Advocacy at Day Hall
Deepak Ilango, Government & American Studies, 2022
This protest approve was used at the 1993 Takeover of Day Hall by students at Cornell University. The banner reads “The People United Will Never Be Defeated/El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido,” “There is No Liberation Without Lesbian/Gay Liberation,” and “No Lgbtq+ Liberation Without Socialism.”
The ‘93 Takeover was a monumental moment in the story of pupil activism, where Cornell’s Latinx community – spurred on by racist vandalism of an art installation – occupied Morning Hall for four days. These students demanded better academic representation and the creation of a Latino Living Center on campus in an example of militant student movement. Given this context, the sign represents an important facet of the history of militant gender non-conforming liberation in America – that it was pioneered on college campuses, with Cornell at the forefront. Cornell’s Scholar Homophile League (SHL), established in 1968, was one of the first LGBT student organizations in the nation, preceding the Stonewall Riots of 1969.
Most importantly, this signal implies the intersectional direction the lgbtq+ rights mov
Gay Liberation Front, GLF-DC (Series XVII)
Collection includes newsletters, flyers, magazines, and fact sheets related to the formation and activities of the DC Gay Liberation Front (DC GLF), including weekly meetings at Grace Episcopal Church; the founding of the Gay Liberation Front house at 1620 S St. NW; proposed protests in DC; a replicate of the last issue of Motive (a publication of the Methodist church), which Skyline Faggots members were heavily involved in writing and designing; and Gay Pride 1972, the initial gay pride week celebration in Washington DC. Also included are items related to a DC GLF reunion organized by Bruce Pennington and Theodore Kirkland over the weekend of the April 1993 gay March on Washington. Also includes photographs documenting social and political activities engaged in by DC GLF and its offshoot, the Skyline Faggots Collective, notably marching in Christopher Street Liberation Day celebrations in New York City; participating in Gay Mayday in 1971; and social outings in DC and Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The collection also has larger several physical objects related to DC GLF, including banners hung at the Skyline Faggots Collective house a
The 1990s, "Don't Seek, Don't Tell," and DOMA
The 90's were a pivotal second for gay rights. While LGBTQ people were treated unequally, and often faced violence within their communities, a younger generation began to realize that LGBTQ people were entitled to the matching rights as anyone else. While it would take another 20 years or so for those rights to be realized, the 90's were a day when gay rights began to be on the forefront of political conversations.
In 1993, the “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” policy was instituted within the U.S. military, and permitted gays to serve in the military but banned homosexual exercise. While President Clinton's intention to revoke the prohibition against gays in the military was originally met with stiff opposition, his compromise led to the discharge of thousands of men and women in the armed forces.
In response to "Don't Ask Don't Tell", Amendment 2 in Colorado, rising loathe crimes, and on-going discrimination against the LGBTQ community an estimated 800,000 to one million people participated in the March on Washington for Lesbian, Queer , and Bi Equal Rights and
World's First 'Dyke March' Held in DC
In April 1993, LGBTQ+ leaders including Victory Fund executive director William Waybourn were invited to a historic meeting with President Clinton in the Oval Office just before the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation. Yet three months later, in July, Waybourn was among twenty-eight arrested at the White Residence gate protesting Clinton’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”—a “compromise” policy replacing the swear of a complete lifting of the ban on open military service.
Longtime Friends
A real turning point in LGBTQ+ political power came when former anti–Vietnam War activists David Mixner and Bill Clinton rekindled their friendship in 1992.
It wasn’t easy. Mixner had confused 300 friends to AIDS, including his beloved significant other , Peter Scott, and he and Lynn Greer were working hard as board co-chairs for Victory Fund. William Waybourn “did a brilliant job in getting the organization off the ground on a daily basis,” Mixner says, a “huge challenge” since so many donors had died and others were financially stretched funding AIDS organizations.
Greater LGBTQ+ representation was a necessity, but LGBTQ+
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Description
Handout with information on how Buffalonians could participate in the1993 March on Washington for Lesbian Gay and Bisexual Equal Rights and Liberation.
Collection
The Madeline Davis GLBT Archives of Western Novel York
Keywords
March on Washington, LGBTQ
Disciplines
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | History | Museum Studies
Recommended Citation
March on Washington, "Handout for the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian Gay and Bisexual Equal Rights and Liberation" (1993). Flyers/Programs from WNY Local Events. 18.
https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/mdlevents/18