Queer Prehistory

The gay-rights movement did not begin with the Stonewall riots in 1969.

By Doug Ireland

Myth has it that the 1969 riots at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village were the first open queer rebellion against discrimination. Not so. In 1965, the first queer sit-ins on record took place at a late-night Philadelphia coffee shop and lunch counter called Dewey's, a popular [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    I thought this was a very good read had things in it I was not aware of.

    United States Posted by ToothWhitening on Jul 16, 2009 at 4:03 PM

    i just think we need to show them that it is wrong - but not shun them. We still need to treat them right.

    United States Posted by DJ Plaster on Jul 17, 2009 at 9:53 AM

    DJ Plaster….Question…...show who what is wrong ??

    United States Posted by blackhorse on Jul 21, 2009 at 12:18 PM

    Very good and interesting read, thank you Doug!

    So many things I’ve never heard of. Probably suppressed I am sure.

    United States Posted by Tommy Starts on Jul 26, 2009 at 7:19 PM

    Thanks for the interesting piece.  Another tidbit is that Harvey Milk was not the first out homosexual elected to office.  Kathy Kozachenko, an out lesbian, ran and was elected to the Ann Arbor city council in early 1974. A part of the Human Rights Party.  There was already an out lesbian on the commission, but she had come out after the election.  I was there, supported Kozachenko, and interestingly don’t remember much controversy over her sexual orientation.

    United States Posted by Judith Ezekiel on Jul 30, 2009 at 6:12 AM

    in SAN FRANCISCO
    Prolific PLAYWRIGHT LARRY MYERS

      has penned


    “getting down at dewey’s”

    and

    “Banquet at Compton’s Cafeteria”

    Dr Myers found the real people who were really there!

    has also written

    “People in Parentheses”
    which has transgender disabled dramatis personae

    Myers has been working with troubled gay youth runaways
    in the Bay City & they did his play

    ‘Lady Gaga’s Guidebook for Living”:

    United States Posted by lauren mars on Jun 17, 2010 at 3:51 PM

    Dr Myers runs an International playwriting center in Manhattan

    he was a KATRINA volunteer

    & recently went to Gulf Oil Leak Area to write

    ‘Edgar Cayce’s Autograph”

    United States Posted by lauren mars on Jun 17, 2010 at 3:53 PM

    we hear playwright larry myrs
    a tennessee williams protege has 2 new trans people gender queer works
    ‘the 5 sexes”
    and
    “he said; she said”
    dr myers dedicates a year long 100th birthday tribute to tennessee williams
    williams was much enamored of candy darling
    myers saw them on stage in
    small craft warnings in the 70 s

    United States Posted by lauren mars on Jun 25, 2010 at 9:57 PM
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