LGB Alliance US....Where Are You?

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[–]SedateApe[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm just curious, and I think I know when it started in the gay lifestyle, that there should be fear that truth would ever come under attack.

I have my own copies of things I've found. Got them on a memory stick. Add to it as I find more.

I hope to turn this over to LGB Alliance US once it's officially formed and has the time to set up a history retrieval group. Most of what I have is probably what is easy to locate. But it can just be another source for that original part of gay history. And who knows, the more people do this same thing, it's possible something truly unique could be found!

As we've seen over the last two or three years truth is not safe anywhere. When a school is about to have its name changed because the person it's named after wasn't that much of a supporter of black people....and that school is named after Abraham Lincoln....we are in a shit world of hurt!

[–]reluctant_commenter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm just curious, and I think I know when it started in the gay lifestyle, that there should be fear that truth would ever come under attack.

Not sure if I believe that a "gay lifestyle" exists... Which truth are you talking about that people were afraid of?

[–]SedateApe[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

LOL...there is a gay lifestyle. There always has been! We see a small piece of society or a theme within an era and add our own flair to it. "The Roaring Twenties", Rehoboth Beach/Fire Island/Key West/San Francisco!, "Summer of Love/Flower Power/Sexual Revolution" of the '60s.

Here, in this sub we have a gay lifestyle on social media and you're participating in it.

The truth that not every moment in the history of the Gay Rights movement involved/included/or was begin by someone who was transgendered. That the first thing thrown at Stonewall was a punch, not a brick. That it was mostly thrown by a young gay man. And it was thrown at the encouragement of a bitch lesbian being arrested! These truths, to start with.

How about the more than a decade the loose grouping of "gays" was know as the LGB and not the LGBT from the very beginning!

And my favorite, that the T (when added in 1995) was always for transgendered people...when those of us who were around and part of the "gay lifestyle" then know for a fact it meant transvestites...who were gay men who cross dressed to work as street prostitutes. The T did not come to stand for transgender until around 2005.

Just a small list of truths being lost to deletion and rewriting of gay history.