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DTLA PROUD GUIDE 5 A MESSAGE FROM THE OFFICIAL DTLA PROUD GUIDE TEAM On behalf of DTLA Proud, THE FIGHT magazine and Pride In Media—we want to welcome you you to the DTLA Proud Festival 2022. Thank you for picking up the Official DTLA Proud Guide 2022. We hope it helps you to navigate your way through this year’s grand return to in-person Pride activities and events. Now, more than ever, we need to recognize and appreciate our LGBTQ+ community, activists, allies, supporters and advertisers. Pride is a celebration but also a reminder of the ongoing fight for LGBTQ+ equality and human rights. Happy and healthy Pride, DTLA Proud! CREATIVE DIRECTOR John oliver.alpuche@dtlaproud.orgOliverEDITORjohn@johnconstantinedesign.comConstantineINCHIEFAlpuche info@rivendellmedia.comRivendellNATIONALchristopher@prideinmediasocal.comPrideDISTRIBUTIONInMediaADVERTISINGMedia
PRESIDENT Letter from the OLIVER ALPUCHE
To my loving Queer Community, Now more than ever, visibility is important! We need to stand up to the extreme polarization of our population and to the radical groups that spread hate to ensure that the ever-present threats to our rights are defeated. We have come a long way but, there is still much to be done. With your help, we can continue to show the world (and DTLA) love and resilience.
“We are HERE, we are Queer and we are not going anywhere”
This is our messaging and mantra this year because the fight is not over. We are determined to create safe spaces and experiences to celebrate queer love and representation. This is the principle reason why our work continues on the creation and development of a Community Center that will allow us to be active 365 days a year.
We are making a conscious effort to authentically include segments of our community that don’t feel like LGBTQIA+ events are for them, by highlighting existing programming that serves underrepresented communities. We are planning on a shared space where you can meet other queer parents or other parents that may have queer children, a place where the stage reflects more than just a cis male perspective, and lastly, a place that all people of color, trans, non-binary, and femme communities are visibly
Remember you are loved, and you have the power to make people feel loved, Oliver Alpuche
Therepresented.DTLAProud Festival is a collective effort of a community coming together and demanding visibility within the city-center of Los Angeles, showcasing and celebrating queer voices, artistry, businesses, and non-profit services. We need to be the beacon of light for our community, near and far, to let them know that there are people out there that love and care for them and accept them for who they are.
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DTLA Proud was founded on the belief that being queer is not limited to a month, a gender, or a lifestyle; we are your neighbors, your family, and your friends. Furthermore, we should be PROUD all year long.
Since 2016, we have celebrated in Pershing Square, we are pleased to announce that we have outgrown that space and will be moving to Grand Park to celebrate in front of historic LA City Hall. This will be a celebration for all LGBTQIA+ communities.
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When I first created SummerTramp (many Suns ago) the Downtown Los Angeles that we all know now was still in its infancy. The year was 2010 and West Hollywood was the undisputed center of the LGBTQ universe. Other than a few pioneering parties (thank you Shits n’ Giggles, Rhonda and Mustache Mondays) the eastside et al was relatively quiet, few and far in-between for the queer community at large. Back then I was new to Queer nightlife and I was surprised how divided the scene was. Westside stayed west and Eastside stayed east – rarely did they mix. So when I first started SummerTramp I made it my intention to program with all sides of Los Angeles. A safe space that celebrates unity within the community where EVERYONE can let their hair down, take their clothes off, be themselves and ultimately raise their flag without any judgment.
It’s been over 8 years since I first slid down that slide… During that time I’ve have had the pleasure of witnessing what I feel has been a renaissance in the queer community with Downtown L.A.. leading the way. Never before have I felt a stronger unification in the LGBTQ+ community than I do today and it makes sense that we’re celebrating this unification in the flourishing heart of Los Angeles.
I ran my first marathon in 2005 for APLA just because I wanted to do something different.
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I am a true native to LA, born at White Memorial Hospital in East LA and raised in Highland Park. Los Angeles will always be home. Growing up as the youngest of six boys was an interesting experience. We were our own tribe, especially since we were the only Belizeans in the neighborhood. I have an identical twin who has always been by my side and there for me. I am also grateful for my older brother that came out before me. He truly bared the brunt of the coming out experience and paved the way for my twin and I to come out.
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Just like SummerTramp, DTLA Proud is all-inclusive accessible festival that represents the diverse LGBTQ+ population. Ultimately both these gatherings share the same ethos, the same intention of bringing people together in a celebration of love and unity. While SummerTramp has always been anchored in providing these sentiments to the community, DTLA Proud brings this about on a grander scale, operating as a 100% non-profit with the sole intention of bringing awareness to and for our community in the ever-growing landscape of DTLA.
Afterwards, I started working for Nike and throwing community events. My mission was to create an authentic running store by connecting with the community. I started a running club at the LGBT youth center and a fitness Friday class at a local elementary school. Also, we were able to throw free 1⁄2 marathons and create training programs. My experience with Nike inspired me to open up a gay bar in DTLA and help bring the community together. I had lived in DTLA for 6 years and witnessed the growth of the LGBTQ+ community. There was a lack of safe spaces for people to meet motivated me to embark on journey to create one.
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With more than 20 years in grant management and financial administration, Dominic has extensive experience in administering federal, state, and local agency grants, as well as foundation grants. His passion for his work and his ability to see himself in the people whom he serves has driven his success.
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Scottie Jeanette Madden didn’t make it easy on herself. Like many late-stage trans women, everything in her life screamed “Alpha Male.” With over 30 years in television production, no one knew that Scottie Jeanette, a top survival showrunner who had lead über-male productions into the world’s most dangerous locations had been engaged in a lifelong battle for her soul. Scottie rose through the ranks of production to become a writer, director and showrunner. She put all this, plus a marriage of 26 years, on the line when she wrote “Getting Back To Me” from girl to boy to woman in just fifty year, leaving behind “white male privilege” to embrace truth, grace and womanhood. It was the ultimate survival show as Scottie dismantled the walls of a self-imposed prison, charting the way from denial to acceptance, from fear to courage to be herself. Today, she is a passionate advocate, speaker and educator for the Queer community, speaking to universities, corporations and hospitals (over 120 workshops for Kaiser Hospitals, alone). Her TED Talk, titled, “What Would My Father Say? - how living up to the expectations of others, led me to live up to my own,” led to her being invited first to the DTLA advisory board, in 2019 and then the Board of Directors in 2020. She an award-winning writer, director and producer of film & television for over 40 years, featuring documentaries, live events and scripted series, as well as an author of three books of Queer content
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TONY HOANG
Tony Hoang is the managing director for Equality California. In that role, he oversees the dayto-day operations of the organization. Prior to joining Equality California, Tony interned at the Pacific Council of International Policy and the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor. He holds a BA in international relations from the University of Southern California with minors in political science and biology. Tony serves on the board of directors of the Equality Federation, the national movement builder and strategic partner to state-based organizations advocating for LGBTQ people. Tony is also Vice President of the Los Angeles Innovation and Performance Commission and sits on the advisory board of Generation Change, an organization dedicated to electing millennials to office. He lives in Downtown Los Angeles with his partner Ian.
INTERIM BOARD MEMBER & TREASURER DOMINIC ALPUCHE
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ADVISORY BOARD DIANNE TAYLOR I am a Los Angeles County native. Growing up out east, in the suburbs of Covina, I was part of a family of 5 children to immigrant parents. Made the move to the city in 2016 to further romance a career pathway and new life journey. After graduating from Cal Poly Pomona, I quickly acquired a design role and succeeded moving upwards through the ranks to manage thee entire print production operation. Most recently, I have dedicated time to become a cycling instructor to fulll my mind + body aspirations while actively volunteering at DTLA PROUD since 2019. I also help foster dogs :) As my queer identity exponentially evolved into the cis gendered gay man that I am today, I started to refocus energy into a community and organization where I could see notable change for the better. As I continue to work with the PROUD Team, I see the positive changes and representation we all want to help implement in diversity, inclusion and equity in the programs we host and partner with. As I continue to navigate uncharted waters into the future, I can’t wait to see how I can help change and shape the future with my creative, energetic and philanthropic aspirations to help build, guide and manifest safe spaces and representation for my queer family.
TERI KINNE
ADVISORY BOARD CHARLES OCHOA John Constantine Lucido is a Los Angeles based artist who is one of the go-to graphic designers for queer downtown businesses. He has been involved with DTLA Proud, Redline, and Pre cinct since before they opened their doors, and has watched the DTLA queer community grow immensely over the last 7 years. He is also a singer-songwriter known by his stage name, The Hound.
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Teri Kinne is an award-wining event producer who is passionate about celebration and philan thropy and its place in community. She has produced events in Los Angeles for seventeen years as the in-house planner for some of the finest cultural venues in the city including the Walt Dis ney Concert Hall, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the J. Paul Getty Center and Villa. In 2011 she launched her own event production group: Teri Kinne Events.
While working full time at Cal State University Dianne is in her 3rd year of volunteering for DTLA Proud. She also volunteers for various organizations around the City of Los Angeles.
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Pony Gold is a DTLA based filmmaker, community activist, and I.A.T.S.E. Local 600 Union member working in the camera department in film and television. She has worked with A-list talent on productions for HBO, Netflix, Showtime and Rolling Stone. Since moving to Los Angeles, building and serving her local community has been a priority. Whether it’s working a commercial or volunteering on a project, she has a passion to simply help those around her. Some of her favorite organizations to support through volunteer work are the NOHO Home Alliance homeless shelter, The Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, and DTLA PROUD. She also supports smaller independent donation drives and causes that champion community aid and/ or activism. Ms. Gold first started her affiliation with DTLA PROUD in July 2020 when she was brought onto the documentary film, “Proud In The Pandemic” as a Director of Photography.
Julian Montanez works in Investment Operations at Capital Group and is very active in the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts of his organization. A Southern California native and son of Immigrants, Julian is passionate to tell the stories of the Latinx LGBTQ experience as well as all Angelinos. His life motto is “kindness is the key to self-discovery and acceptance.” Julian received his Bachelor of Arts in American Studies from CSU Fullerton and a Master of Science in Leadership and Management from University of La Verne. In his spare time, in addition to serving the Advisory Board of DTLA PROUD, Julian enjoys reality tv, rooting for the LA Dodgers and laughing through life.
Sergio received his Bachelor of Science in Political Science from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and a Master of Science in Higher Education from California State Univer sity, Fullerton. In his spare time, in addition to serving as the newest member of the Advisory Board of DTLA PROUD, Sergio serves as a Board Member of the Latino Leadership Foundation in partnership with Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity, Inc. Sergio enjoys planning gatherings with his Las Ms friends, and is a diehard LA Rams and Dodgers fan.
“Amidst all of the changes and challenges in the world, I combat the feeling of helplessness by helping those around me knowing that one person CAN actually make a difference” is her personal mission.
Sergio G. Hernandez is the Senior Director, Special Events & Alumni Relations at City Year, Inc. Los Angeles. In his role he creates and curates large-scale, high-quality, site events that drive the critical funding and engagement of corporate sponsors and champions for the organization. Additionally, he also is responsible for deepening the engagement with City Year Los Angeles alumni. Prior to joining City Year, Sergio served as the Manager, Programs & Events at the Hispanic Scholarship Fund as the first Deferred Action for Children Arrival (DACA) employee for the organization. Sergio continues to be a DACA beneficiary and supports other undocumented youth and leaders in the fight for a legal path for all undocumented dreamers.
ADVISORY BOARD JULIAN MONTANEZ
ADVISORY BOARD SERGIO HERNANDEZ
ADVISORY BOARD PONY GOLD
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14 DTLA PROUD GUIDE SATURDAY Schedule 12PM-4PM PROUD GENERATION Lawn games, Banjee Ball, DJs, Queerchata dance lessons, sign making and more! 4PM-7PM YOU’RE WELCOME: PRESENTED BY THEM FATALE A nightlife sampler of your favorite parties in partnership with DIVORCE and GAYASSTROLOGY 12PM-10PM PROUD MAIN STAGE TITO BONITO FOXY THE DJ RUBELLA SPREADS QUEERCHATA BANJEE BALL YOU’RE WELCOME KOKE QUEERCHATA KASTURI DIVINITY DMAIN AND CREW THE SECRET CIRCUS SIR CHRIS SAINT LEOPOLD NUNAN KC ORTIZ JUDAS JOE MANSON NEW JALISCO LATIN DRAG EXTRAVAGANZA 12PM-10PM PROUD OASIS Adults-only day party in partnership with Summertramp, Precinct, Redline, New Jalisco, Bar Franca, AKBAR, and 10DTLA
DTLA PROUD GUIDE 15 SUNDAY Schedule 12PM-4PM FAMILY DAY Splash Zone, finger painting, lawn games, balloon animals, Drag Queen story time, picnic sing-a-long and more! 4PM-7PM TRANSCEN DANCE 3 hours of Trans and Non-Binary excellence! Including a Trans picnic with amazing performances, DJ’s and more! 12PM-10PM PROUD MAIN STAGE CHEER LA TONY SOTO ALEXANDER RODRIGUEZ GORDON LAYKE LYLE ANTHONY REHD ONICKS MKX RUBELLA SPREADS MARQUI CALYPSO JETE 12PM-10PM PROUD OASIS Adults-only day party in partnership with Summertramp, Precinct, Redline, New Jalisco, Bar Franca, AKBAR, and 10DTLA
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History of the LGBTQ Civil Rights Movement: The Road to the Stonewall Riots was released in 2019 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.
Founded in 1952, the ONE Archives Foundation, Inc. is the oldest continuously operating LGBTQ organization in the nation. The mission of the ONE Archives Foundation is to collect, preserve, and protect LGBTQ history, art, and culture in collaboration with ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. In order to provide access to the archival collections, the Foundation presents and supports projects, exhibitions, and education programs to share the LGBTQ experience with diverse communities worldwide. Your donation helps support our Traveling LGBTQ History Exhibitions Project, such as this series, History of the LGBTQ Civil Rights Movement: The Road to the Stonewall Riots.
The History of the LGBTQ Civil Rights Movement: The Road to the Stonewall Riots is published by ONE Archives Foundation as part of the Traveling LGBTQ History Exhibitions Project © 2019 ONE Archives Foundation. All rights reserved. No part of this display may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any other information storage or retrieval system, or otherwise without written permission from the publisher.
This exhibition was made possible through the generous support of Edith Windsor, Dr. E. Jaye Johnson and Rev. Patti Dershem and the work of Elizabeth Koehler, Erik Adamian, Nicholas Bihr, and James Lituchy.
History of the LGBTQ Civil Rights Movement: The Road to the Stonewall Riots
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Learn about gender non-conforming folks who boldly challenged gender conventions in the early 20th century; the beginning of “gayborhoods” in the 1940s; the Lavender Scare and the establishment of the earliest gay and lesbian organizations in the 1950s; the transgender people of color-led social uprisings in the 1950s and early 1960s; and the Stonewall Riots of 1969 that helped the LGBTQ community to lead one of the most important civil rights advancements of the last century.
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This exhibition presents the incredibly inspiring journey of the LGBTQ community leading up to the Stonewall Riots of 1969.
Local laws known as anti crossdressing ordinances emerged across many U S cities in the middle of the nineteenth centur y, harmfully regulating gender expression in public spaces . Some of the first cities to adopt these measures include Columbus, Ohio (1848), Chicago, Illinois (1851), Wilmington, Delaware (1856), Charleston, South Carolina (1858), and San Francisco, California (1863), among many others. For example, language in Chicago’s ordinance dictated that individuals who “appear in a public place… in a dress not belonging to his or her sex” would face criminal of fense Achargesnticrossdressing ordinances were eventually overturned in the second-half of the twentieth century but , for an entire century, oppressive hetero- and cis normative gender conventions upheld. This stifled and stigmatized people’s capacities for non normative gender expressions and presentations. Despite this, individuals contested these restrictive ordinances. One of those individuals was a Black transgender woman named Lucy Hicks Anderson
DTLA PROUD GUIDE 19 (Top center) Drag magazine Vol 3 No 10 Ed Trust magaz ne photographer (M ddle left) Ed th crossdressing undated Dorothy C Putnam and Lois Mercer papers ONE Arch ves at the USC Libraries (Middle right) Lucy H cks Anderson courtesy of the Museum of Ventura County (Background bottom right) Bil y T pton at the piano with members of the Bil y T pton Trio Bil y T pton Photographs #7767 Div s on of Rare and Manuscript Co lect ons Cornell University Library
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org Lucy Hick s Anderson was from Waddy, Kentuck y and was born in 18 86 In elementar y school, she began wearing dresses; when her mother grew concerned, she brought Lucy to a doc tor, who instruc ted her to raise Lucy as a girl Af ter her second marriage to a man, Anderson was publicly outed by a prominent physician, leading the Ventura County Distric t Attorney to charge her with perjur y. In her trial, Lucy challenged medical authorities , asser ting, “ I def y any doc tor in the world to prove that I am not a woman,” insisting that she had “lived, dressed, ac ted just what I am, a woman” for the majority of her life Nonetheless , she was found guilty on December 3 , 1945 and sentenced to ten years probation The following year, she and her husband were convic ted of fraud and sent to federal prison in Los Angeles She remained in Los Angeles until her death in 1954
This exhibition was made possible through the generous support of Edith Windsor Dr. E. Jaye Johnson and Rev. Patti Dershem, and the work of Elizabeth Koehler, Erik Adamian, Nicholas Bihr, and James Lituchy. The ONE Archives Foundation is the oldest LGBTQ organization in the U.S. and the community partner of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.
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Donald Webster Cory’s The Homosexual in America (1951), was the first nonfiction book in the United States to identify homosexual people as an oppressed minority group. Unlike most psychological accounts of the day, it criticized the idea that homosexuality could be cured and encouraged gay men and lesbians to shed their guilt and shame. The book’s argument for the rights of homosexuals inspired activists of the era and set the stage for the LGBTQ rights movement to follow.
During the late 1940s and early 1950s, sensationalized pulp fiction paperback novels emerged, portraying lesbian and gay characters in mainstream fiction for the first time. In an era where merely the positive portrayal of homosexuality could trigger obscenity charges, authors wrote tragic endings for their homosexual characters. The stories were nonetheless popular in the gay and lesbian community as they comprised one of the few published sources of gay and lesbian content.
(Bottom left) Fruit of the Loon. Ricardo Armory. Greenleaf Classics, 1968. ONE Archives at the USC Libraries; (Bottom right) The Troubled Sex: A Frank and Penetrating Study of Habits and Practiced Among Lesbians - Their Causes and Clinical Histories... Carlson Wade. Beacon Envoy, 1961.
Gore Vidal’s The City and the Pillar (1948) and James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room (1956) boldly introduced mass audiences to gay characters. In 1957, Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems successfully fought off obscenity charges brought on, in part, by its homosexual content.
The first books to raise national awareness to the topic of homosexuality were Dr. Alfred Kinsey’s widely popular Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953). Based on interviews with thousands of volunteers, Kinsey reported that 37% of men and 28% of women studied had at least one homosexual experience in their lives. Kinsey surmised that homosexuality was “a significant part of human sexual activity since the dawn of history, primarily because it is an expression of capacities that are basic in the human animal.” The often contested finding that 10% of the population is primarily homosexual comes from Kinsey’s studies.
In the 1950s, the increased visibility of gay and lesbian communities along with a heightened fear of communism brought about the greatest crackdown on gay and lesbian people in United States history. The American Psychiatric Association officially classified homosexuality as a mental disorder in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual in 1952, not to be removed until 1973. In 1953, President Eisenhower signed Executive Order 10450, banning gay and lesbian people from working for the federal government or any of its private contractors. More gay and lesbian people were fired from federal employment under homosexuality charges than for any other reason.
Images courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.
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The ban had a far greater impact, as scores of gay and lesbian people simply quit their federal jobs rather than face an official inquiry. State and municipal governments as well as private employers followed the federal lead, creating blacklists of gay and lesbian people who could no longer find employment in their respective fields.
In trying to keep their sexual orientation hidden, gay men and lesbians were particularly vulnerable to extortion and violence. Those victimized rarely filed charges out of fear of exposure or arrest. Perpetrators of violence against gay and lesbian people could even claim what would become known as a “gay panic defense,” which justified any action, including murder, in the name of protecting oneself against a same-sex advance.
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This exhibition was made possible through the generous support of Edith Windsor and the work of Elizabeth Koehler.
Francisco came under attack in 1951 when authorities revoked the bar’s liquor license for serving gay patrons. The owner challenged the decision, and in Stoumanv.Reilly, the California Supreme Court provided a rare legal victory, siding with the institution’s right to serve gay people. Still, even in San Francisco, anti-gay sentiments proved difficult to overcome. Amid increasing police raids and legal debt, the Black Cat Bar closed in 1964.
In mid-twentieth century America, state liquor authorities regularly revoked the licenses of bars that served homosexuals. Police enforced the regulation by raiding bars, harassing the patrons, arresting a selection of them, and closing down the bars. Bars were the primary public places where gay and lesbian people could socialize, so the raids created an atmosphere of fear that permeated all gay and lesbian gatherings. Police canvassed public areas primarily frequented by gay men and ran entrapment schemes. Purposefully vague statutes on morals, lewd conduct, or disorderly conduct allowed the police to arrest gay and lesbian people for wearing clothing of the opposite sex, behaving like someone of the opposite sex, or even holding hands with a member of the same sex.
This exhibition was made possible through the generous support of Edith Windsor and the work of Elizabeth Koehler. The ONE Archives Foundation is the oldest LGBTQ organization in the U.S. and the community partner of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.
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(Top) Dottie Frank (center) with others at Acme Bar. Circa 1961. ONE Archives at the USC Libraries; (Left panel bottom left) Harold L. Call Papers. ONE Archives at the USC Libraries; (Right panel) Brochure for the Black Cat Café in San Francisco. 1952. José Sarria Papers. ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. www.onearchives.org
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Those who were arrested were vulnerable to violence from the police and, if jailed, from inmates. They also faced the loss of their jobs, eviction from their homes, and social ostracism. Rather than having their sexual
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DTLA PROUD GUIDE 23 (Top) Photographed by Fred W. McDarrah. ONE Archives at the USC Libraries; (Bottom) ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.
In 1952, when the society successfully defended a police entrapment case against one of its founders, Dale Jennings, membership rapidly expanded. Mattachine Society chapters formed across the United States. However, in 1953, Mattachine Society members succumbed to the Red Scare of the era and forced out Hay and the other original founders because of their past communist ties. Although the following years saw membership dwindle and the national coalition crumble, local Mattachine Societies continued to work effectively.
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The first sustained gay activist organization did not coalesce until 1951 when Harry Hay led the formation of the Mattachine Society in Los Angeles. The Mattachine Society blamed society, not other queer people, for the discrimination they faced, which countered the internalized shame and guilt felt by many gay and lesbian people. Hay argued that gay and lesbian people were a minority group oppressed by a prejudicial society and that they needed to organize in order to challenge their unjust persecution. Membership in the organization grew slowly. Most gay and lesbian people believed quiet assimilation to be their best option and would not risk exposure for what they viewed as an impossible cause. Fearful of persecution, those who did attend meetings did so at secret locations and arrived at staggered times to avoid raising suspicions. They kept the blinds drawn, their full names hidden, and the telephones in drawers in case of wire-tapping.
This exhibition was made possible through the generous support of Edith Windsor and the work of Elizabeth Koehler. The ONE Archives Foundation is the oldest LGBTQ organization in the U.S. and the community partner of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.
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(Top left) From left to right: Don Slater, W. Dorr Legg, and Jim Kepner helped make ONE Incorporated the most accomplished gay and lesbian advocacy organization of the 1950s; (Middle right) W. Dorr Legg stands before ONE Incorporated staff and author Harry Otis (far right). Circa 1957-1958. ONE Incorporated Records, ONE Archives at the USC Libraries; (Bottom left) Jim Kepner (left) and W. Dorr Legg standing outside the ONE Incorporated offices on Venice Blvd. Undated. ONE Incorporated Records, ONE Archives at the USC
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Besides publishing ONE Magazine, the organization was the first to establish a public gay and lesbian research library (1953), provide social services to the gay community (1953), host conferences on gay rights (1955), teach classes in gay studies (1956), and publish a gay and lesbian scholarly journal www.onearchives.org(1958).
ONE followed Harry Hay’s vision of gay and lesbian people as an oppressed minority group and challenged the status quo with cover stories on same-sex marriage and federal anti-gay witch-hunts.
ONE was a true coalition endeavor from the start. The original nine board members included African-Americans Bailey Whitaker and Guy Rousseau, Latino Tony Reyes, and two women, Joan Corbin and Irma “Corky” Wolf. Rousseau came up with the name ONE after a Thomas Carlyle quote: “A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.”
ONE MAGAZINE HITS THE NEWSSTANDSBecauseofitscontent,themagazinedrew the attention of the FBI and the United States Post Office. In 1953 and again in 1954, the local postmaster confiscated the magazine, claiming its positive portrayal of homosexuality violated federal obscenity laws. But in the 1958 decision ONE, Inc. v. Olesen, the United States Supreme Court overturned the ruling, delivering the first Supreme Court decision in favor of gay and lesbian rights.
This exhibition was made possible through the generous support of Edith Windsor and the work of Elizabeth Koehler. The ONE Archives Foundation is the oldest LGBTQ organization in the U.S. and the community partner of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.
a group of members from the Mattachine Society in Los Angeles came together and published a gay and lesbian periodical titled ONE Magazine. While Henry Gerber and Lisa Ben each published short-lived gay and lesbian periodicals in 1924 and 1947, resepectively, ONE Magazine was the first to sustain production and reach a national audience.
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DelMartin(rightwithwhitecollar)andPhyllisLyon(upperright)frequentlycollaboratedwithactivistleadersduringthelate1950s,includingwithONEInc.BoardchairmanW.DorrLegg(farleft),MattachineSocietypresidentHalCall(frontwithbowtie),prominentauthorHarryOtis(inwhitebehindCall),psychologistDr.BlancheBaker(inwheelchair),andothers.TheLadderwastheonlylesbianperiodicalintheUnitedStatesoverthefirstfourteenyearsofitspublication.Itwasthefirstpublicationtoputaphotographofanoutlesbianonitscover.
This exhibition was made possible through the generous support of Edith Windsor and the work of Elizabeth Koehler. The ONE Archives Foundation is the oldest LGBTQ organization in the U.S. and the community partner of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.
(Top) Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon. Photo by Stephen Stewart. (Right middle) ONE Archives at the USC Libraries; (Bottom) ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, ONE Incorporated Records. www.onearchives.org
In 1955, eight lesbians in San Francisco, led by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, joined together to found the Daughters of Bilitis, the first lesbian organization in the United States. The name came from the lesbian-themed song cycle “Songs of Bilitis,” by French poet Pierre Louÿs. The songs explored the life of a fictional lesbian character, Bilitis, who lived on the Isle of Lesbos with Sappho. The organization worked to provide a national support group for the often isolating lives of lesbians in the era. In 1956, the Daughters of Bilitis created the publication The Ladder, which Phyllis Lyon edited for the next fourteen years. The Daughters of Bilitis expanded to several chapters across the United States, each with varying levels of activist involvement. The Daughters of Bilitis hosted an educational conference in San Francisco with ONE Incorporated in the late 1950s. In 1960, the Daughters of Bilitis convened the first of a series of national lesbian
(Top) Photo courtesy of the GLBT Historical Society; (Right top left) Postcard with José Sarria’s platform in the race for San Francisco City and County Supervisor. 1961. Photo courtesy of the GLBT Historical Society; (Right top right and middle) SIR pocket lawyer and flier. Courtesy of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.
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By the early 1960s in San Francisco, gay activism had begun to pick up steam. Famed drag performer José Julio Sarria ran for a city supervisor’s seat in 1961, becoming the first openly LGBTQ person to run for governmental office in the United States. Although the campaign was unsuccessful, his nearly 6,000 votes hinted at an untapped gay political Inpower.San Francisco in 1962, gay bar owners and bartenders organized the first gay business association, the Tavern Guild, to combat police harassment of their bars and patrons. The Society for Individual Rights (SIR) formed two years later to push for broader gay and lesbian rights. By successfully combining social functions with political activities, SIR became the largest gay organization in the United States. In 1966, it opened one of the nation’s first gay and lesbian community centers. In 1964, a coalition of San Francisco gay and lesbian activists and religious leaders formed the Council on Religion and the Homosexual (CRH). When police raided a CRH-sponsored New Year’s Eve event that year, religious leaders stood side-by-side with LGBTQ activists to condemn the police’s targeting of queer people. The protest brought about a temporary halt to police raids on LGBTQ establishments and demonstrated the potential of coalition politics. www.onearchives.org SAN
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JoséJulioSarriafoundedtheImperialCourtinSanFranciscoin1965.Thecourtransocial eventswithacampImperialtheme,includinganofficialcoronationofakingandqueen.The ImperialCourtSystemspreadacrossNorthAmericaandhasraisedmillionsforLGBTQcauses.
Cafeteria in San Francisco turned to the police to run off their drag queen and transgender patrons, LGBTQ activists set up a picket to protest the treatment. In August 1966, when Compton’s owners ignored picketeres and again called in the police, the patrons fought back and chased the officers from the building. The ensuing riot spilled into the streets, smashing windows, vandalizing a police car, and burning down a newspaper stand. This exhibition was made possible through the generous support of Edith Windsor and the work of Elizabeth Koehler. The ONE Archives Foundation is the oldest LGBTQ organization in the U.S. and the community partner of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.
was made possible through the generous support of Edith Windsor and the work of Elizabeth Koehler. The ONE Archives Foundation is the oldest LGBTQ organization in the U.S. and the community partner of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.
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The pickets of the White House and the Pentagon in 1965 were some of the first gay and lesbian protests in history. Photos courtesy of Kay Tobin Lahusen, Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen Collection. ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Upon founding the Mattachine Society of Washington in 1961, Frank Kameny and Jack Nichols worked to enlist the help of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to support legal challenges to the Federal Government’s discriminatory employment policies. The collaboration resulted in the first succesful lawsuits against employment discrimination in Scott v. Macy (1965) and Norton v. Macy (1969).
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In New York City in 1964, Randy Wicker and members of the New York Mattachine Society and the League for Sexual Freedom organized the first picket of the military’s discriminatory policies towards gay and lesbian people. In Philadelphia in 1965, the Janus Society led a sit-in at Dewey’s restaurant in response to a decision by the owner to refuse service to those in “nonconformist clothing.”
The following year, the New York Mattachine Society staged “sip-ins” at New York City bars to protest the state’s ban on serving gay and lesbian bring together the Janus Society in Philadelphia and Mattachine Society chapters in New York and Washington D.C., to form East Coast Homophile Organizations (ECHO). In 1965, ECHO led small protests at the White House, Pentagon, State Department, and Civil Service Commission, and initiated the Annual Reminder pickets outside of Independence Hall in InPhiladelphia.1966,gayand lesbian activist organizations came together in Kansas City, Missouri, for the first North American Conference of Homophile Organizations (NACHO). By 1967, the coalition claimed a membership of 6,000 individuals and organizations, and by 1968, it had formalized a national campaign behind Kameny’s “Gay is Good” slogan. This exhibition was made possible through the generous support of Edith Windsor and the work of Elizabeth Koehler. The ONE Archives Foundation is the oldest LGBTQ organization in the U.S. and the community partner of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.
DTLA PROUD GUIDE 29 Transgender and gender non-conforming people of color played a pivotal role in LGBTQ protests before the Stonewall Riots of 1969. For instance, the Cooper Do-nuts uprising in May of 1959 served as one of the first LGBTQ+ protests against police brutality in the 20th century. Located in Los Angeles’ Skid Row, this 24-hour café was frequented by queer Black and Latinx people who were often barred from other establishments for attracting police attention. Officers routinely intimidated transgender patrons by harassing them and asking inappropriate questions; they would ultimately arrest them for masquerading, loitering, or suspicion of sex work. Tensions broke when two officers began apprehending patrons. Outraged, people threw donuts, coffee, and paper plates until the officers retreated. They returned with backup, leading to a riot and partial closure of Main Street.
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(Top, center) Drag magazine, Vol. 3 No. 11. ONE Periodical Collection. Ed Trust, magazine photographer. (Middle, left) A still from Kent Mackenzie’s 1961 film “The Exiles”, circa 1961. (Middle, enter) DRUM magazine, Vol. V, Number 6 by Janus Society of America. ONE Periodical Collection. Clark P. Polak, editor. (Bottom, right) Screen grab from Gay San Francisco, by Jonathan Price and Ed Muckerman, courtesy of Susan Stryker. (Background, middle left) Drag magazine, Vol. 3 No. 11. ONE Periodical Collection. Ed Trust, magazine photographer. www.onearchives.org
In Philadelphia, the management of Dewey’s Famous, a popular lunch-counter chain frequented by LGBTQ+ youth of color, refused service to gender non-conforming teenagers due to their “rowdy” behavior and “non-conformist” clothing. On April 25, 1965, over 150 LGBTQ+ patrons were arrested, including Clark Polak, president of the gay and lesbian Janus Society. Polak, along with three teenagers, were found guilty of misdemeanor disorderly conduct. As a result, the trans community and the Janus Society created an informational picket line over the next few days; drawing from tactics used by African-American civil rights activists, they organized a sit-in to bring attention to “all indiscriminate denials of service.” After the second protest—and with no arrests made— Dewey’s management reversed their policy.
This exhibition was made possible through the generous support of Edith Windsor, Dr. E. Jaye Johnson and Rev. Patti Dershem, and the work of Elizabeth Koehler, Erik Adamian, Nicholas Bihr, and James Lituchy. The ONE Archives Foundation is the oldest LGBTQ organization in the U.S. and the community partner of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.
Three years before Stonewall, the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot in August 1966 rocked the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. The 24-hour restaurant – whose clientele consisted mainly of drag queens, transgender people, runaway youth, and sex workers – was one of few gay establishments that allowed entrance to trans people. When restaurant management began fearing that trans people were detracting from business, they ordered police to remove all gender non-conforming patrons from the premises. Chaos ensued when one trans woman was roughly apprehended by an officer and threw coffee in his face. People threw utensils, tables, and chairs around the restaurant and through windows. As officers fled to call for backup, over a hundred trans people set fire to a newsstand, smashed the windows of a squad car, and aggressively resisted arrest. Compton’s Cafeteria is lauded since transgender folks and their allies successfully resisted police brutality and transformed; moreover, social services for transgender people in San Francisco were transformed as a result of the uprising.
In the 1960s, gay bars across the United States were routinely subjected to police raids. Because the gay bars were considered to be “immoral” establishments, they had difficulty holding on to liquor licenses. Unnecessary ID checks, arrests, and police brutality were commonplace. However, the Stonewall Riots proved to be a turning point at which the LGBTQ community began to fight back against the unjust behavior of the police.
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The riots continued from Saturday until Wednesday, with hundreds of people joining in the fight.
This exhibition was made possible through the generous support of Edith Windsor and the work of Elizabeth Koehler. The ONE Archives Foundation is the oldest LGBTQ organization in the U.S. and the community partner of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.
The riots began at around 2 AM on June 28, 1969, at the Mafia-owned Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York’s Greenwich Village that was popular among the poorest and most marginalized people in the LGBTQ community: drag queens, transgender men and women, young gay male prostitutes, and homeless youth. Police had targeted the Stonewall Inn many times in the past. However, this particular raid would end differently. As the police checked IDs, arrested Stonewall patrons, and escorted them into police vans, people became increasingly agitated and started to resist. Police quickly lost control over the crowds that gathered in support of the patrons being arrested.
www.onearchives.orgThe crowd began throwing coins at the police, and then bottles and other sharp objects. Feeling threatened, the police reacted with violence, beating protestors and spraying them with tear gas.
Protesters continued to throw bottles through the windows and used lighter fluid to ignite fires in trashcans, and even inside the bar. Police eventually called in the Tactical Patrol Force. However, every time they managed to disperse the crowd, it reassembled around them.
A crucial event in LGBTQ history, the Stonewall Riots came to symbolize the beginning of an international queer liberation movement. On June 28, 1970, the first LGBTQ Pride marches took place in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago. Today, Pride events are held annually in June throughout the world to mark the Stonewall Riots.
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(Top left and bottom left) View of a damaged jukebox and cigarette machine, along with a broken chair, inside the Stonewall Inn (53 Christopher Street) after riots. Photographed by Fred W. McDarrah. ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. (Top right) An unidentifed group of young people celebrate outside the boarded-up Stonewall Inn. Photographed by Fred W. McDarrah. ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. (Bottom middle) Layout of the Stonewall Inn in 1969. David Carter (2004). Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution St. Martin’s Press. (Bottom right) The Stonewall Inn by Diana Davies, copyright owned by New York Public
32 DTLA PROUD GUIDE (Top, center) Drag magazine, Vol. 3 No. 11. Ed Trust, Magazine photographer. (Center, right) Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera from Drag magazine, Vol. 2 No. 8. Ed Trust, Magazine photographer. (Bottom, left) Drag magazine, Vol. 2 No. 8. Ed Trust, Magazine photographer. (Bottom, center) Miss Major Griffin-Gracy during the Pride 2014 parade in San Francisco, California. June 29, 2014. Quinn Dombrowski,
Marsha P. Johnson, a Black transgender woman, was born on August 24, 1945 and moved to New York City in the 1960s. She changed her name in 1966, later adding the “P.” for “Pay It No Mind” – her response when people incessantly questioned her gender. Alongside other gay and trans people, she fought against police brutality and discrimination outside the Stonewall Inn. Although active in the Gay Liberation Front, Johnson and Sylvia Rivera felt the organization was not addressing issues faced by transgender and gender nonconforming people of color, which compelled her and Sylvia Rivera to establish STAR in 1970. In the 1980s, Johnson joined forces with the radical organization AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP), and organized food and clothing for young transgender people impacted by the AIDS epidemic. Although never investigated, Johnson’s death in 1992 was likely a hatemotivated murder. A lifelong radical activist for racial, social, and economic justice, Johnson helped transform the lives of transgender youth of color.
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This exhibition was made possible through the generous support of Edith Windsor, Dr. E. Jaye Johnson and Rev. Patti Dershem, and the work of Elizabeth Koehler, Erik Adamian, Nicholas Bihr, and James Lituchy. The ONE Archives Foundation is the oldest LGBTQ organization in the U.S. and the community partner of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a formerly incarcerated Black transgender woman born in Chicago, Illinois on October 24, 1940. In her twenties, she worked as a professional “female impersonator” in New York and frequented the Stonewall Inn, where she participated in the 1969 rebellion. After the murder of her close friend – a transgender Puerto Rican woman and sex worker – went uninvestigated, she grew motivated to radically improve the lives of trans and gender nonconforming people of color. Upon moving to California in 1978, Griffin-Gracy became heavily involved with various HIV/AIDS organizations. In the mid-2000s, Griffin-Gracy became the Executive Director of the Transgender Gender Variant Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP), a community organizing project lead by transgender, gender-variant and intersex people who have experienced or are currently experiencing incarceration. Miss Major currently resides in Little Rock, Arkansas.
photographer.OnJuly2, 1951, Sylvia Rivera, a Latinx transgender woman, was born in the Bronx, New York. Between familial abuse at home and bullying in primary school, Rivera abandoned formal education and left home at age eleven. She then lived on 42nd Street, an area that was home to drag queens, hustlers, and queer street youth; it was here that young drag queens and trans women informally adopted Rivera and taught her how to survive. Like many transgender and gender non-conforming people, she found momentary refuge in the street scene outside the Stonewall Inn during the 1960s. A major player in the riots, Rivera eventually grew frustrated with the way LGBTQ+ rights movement focused on white, cisgender, gay men. Rivera, with her friend Marsha P. Johnson, went on to establish the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) in 1970, after which she largely disappeared from activist circles. For the remainder of her life, she devoted herself to working with transgender communities in New York City.
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The Los Angeles contingent enlisted the help of the American Civil Liberties Union to acquire a city permit and become the first LGBTQ march sanctioned by a city government. In the years following, the marches grew in size and participation, and spread across the world in cities small and large. Now often known as the Pride Parade, the event serves as an annual reminder and celebration of the Stonewall Riots.
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In 1970, just a year after the Stonewall Riots, commemorative marches and “gay-ins” were organized in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles to coincide with the anniversary of Stonewall. New York’s march started with a small group of people, grew to hundreds, and then to thousands as it entered Central Park.
(Top) New York, New York, June 28, 1970. Photographed by Fred W. McDarrah. ONE Archives at the USC Libraries; (Right top) An unidentifed group of young people celebrate on a building stoop near the boarded-up Stonewall Inn. Photographed by Fred W. McDarrah. ONE Archives at the USC Libraries; (Right bottom) Marchers in the first Los Angeles Pride Parade. Pat Rocco photographer, Pat Rocco Papers. ONE Archives at USC Libraries; (Left) Poster advertising the Gay-In at Central Park. “Alternative Press Collection.” Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut. www.onearchives.org
This exhibition was made possible through the generous support of Edith Windsor and the work of Elizabeth Koehler. The ONE Archives Foundation is the oldest LGBTQ organization in the U.S. and the community partner of ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.
American gay rights activists Foster Gunnison (1925 - 1994) & Craig Rodwell (1940 - 1993) (both center) lead the first Stonewall anniversary march, then known as Gay Liberation Day (and later Gay Pride Day).
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