Chapter Seven: Political Protests After Stonewall (1969-1973) Document
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Chapter Seven: Political Protests After Stonewall (1969-1973) Document 123: Bay Area Protests, July 1969 The document reprinted in The Stonewall Riots is Committee for Homosexual Freedom Newsletter, 8 July 1969, 1. For related sources in the first half of 1969, see Chapter 3. For related sources in July-December 1969, see Julie Smith, “Homophile Gay-Is-Good Movement,” San Francisco Chronicle, 2 July 1969, 22; “Widow Asks for $1,290,000,” Berkeley Barb, 4 July 1969, 11; Leo Laurence, “Gays Get Panther OK,” Berkeley Tribe, 25 July 1969, 7; Committee for Homosexual Freedom Newsletter, 31 July 1969, 2; “All the News,” Mattachine Society of New York Newsletter, July 1969, 9-10; Fr. John Michael McGurk, “Memorial Mass for Frank Bartley,” Vector, July 1969, 6; Gale Whittington, “CHF 1st Victory!” Vector, July 1969, 8; “Pickets Win; Tower Records Rehires Boy,” Los Angeles Advocate, Aug. 1969, 6, 35; “SIR Pushes for Murder Inquiry,” Los Angeles Advocate, Aug. 1969, 10; “Unsafe,” Berkeley Tribe, 26 Sep. 1969, 4; Ed Jackson, “Gays Attack Laws, Police in Three Separate Court Actions,” Los Angeles Advocate, Sep. 1969, 1, 6; “Professor Dies after Vice Arrest in Oakland,” Los Angeles Advocate, Sep. 1969, 5; “State Investigates Bartley Death,” Los Angeles Advocate, Sep. 1969, 5; Marcus, “Safeway Theatre: Gale’s Bust,” San Francisco Free Press, 1 Oct. 1969, 7; Leo Laurence, “Gays at War on Western Front,” Berkeley Tribe, 10 Oct. 1969, 22; Committee on Homosexual Freedom Newsletter, 16 Oct. 1969; “Liberationists Bolt Gay Establishment,” Berkeley Tribe, 17 Oct. 1969, 23; “KQED Gay Rap,” Berkeley Tribe, 24 Oct. 1969, 13; Leo E. Laurence, “Wear Your Gown All Year Round,” Berkeley Tribe, 31 Oct. 1969, 8; “Cross Currents,” The Ladder, Oct. 1969, 30-32; “The New Gay World of Gale Whittington,” Tangents, Oct. 1969, 4-9; “A Talk with Leo Laurence,” Tangents, Oct. 1969, 24-30; “Gay ‘Guerillas’ Picket Drag Ball,” San Francisco Free Press, 1 Nov. 1969, 1, 2, 10, 16; Stevens, “SIR?” San Francisco Free Press, 1 Nov. 1969, 7; Gay Liberation Theatre,” San Francisco Free Press, 1 Nov. 1969, 8-9; “Cops Cleared in Caplan Death,” Los Angeles Advocate, Nov. 1969, 1. For related sources in 1970 and 1971, see “Oakland Arrests Drop; Officers Shifted after SIR Suit,” Los Angeles Advocate, Feb. 1970, 1; Don Jackson, “Justice?” Berkeley Barb, 27 Feb. 1970, 14; Don Jackson, “Gay Memorial Services Planned,” Los Angeles Free Press, 6 Mar. 1970, 21; Douglas Key, “Gays Plan Marches, Leather Sunday,” Los Angeles Free Press, 13 Mar. 1970, 3, 15; Don Jackson, “Crash Glass House,” Berkeley Barb, 13 Mar. 1970, 9; Charles Baireuther, “Impersonator Death: Parents, Friends Do Not Accept Full Police Report,” Los Angeles Sentinel, 19 Mar. 1970, 20; “Laverne Family Seeks Inquest,” Los Angeles Free Press, 10 Apr. 1970, 2; Aubrey Bailey, “Bartley Murder March,” Berkeley Barb, 10 Apr. 1970, 2; “Gay Memorial,” Berkeley Tribe, 17 Apr. 1970, 11; Rev. Jim Rankin, “In Memorium: Frank Bartley,” Berkeley Barb, 24 Apr. 1970, 19; Jim Kepner, “Gays Remember Dover Death with Rally, March,” Los Angeles Advocate, 29 Apr. 1970, 1, 3; “Family Seeks Inquest in Man’s Death,” Los Angeles Advocate, 29 Apr. 1970, 1, 2; “Family to File Suit in Bartley Death,” Los Angeles Advocate, Apr. 1970, 5; “Memorial Services for Howard Effland, Victim of Savage L.A. ‘Pigs,’” San Francisco Free Press, Apr. 1970, 2; Don Jackson, “Bartley Murder Protest,” Gay Power (1.16), c. Apr. 1970, 8; Don Jackson, “L.A. Gay Riots Threatened,” Los Angeles Free Press, 15 1 May 1970, 16; “KNBC Hit for Shelving Death Probe,” Los Angeles Advocate, 11 Nov. 1970, 5; “Gavin Says KNBC Hasn’t Copped Out on Slaying Probe,” Los Angeles Advocate, 23 Dec. 1970, 1, 10; “We Remember Frank Bartley,” Berkeley Barb, 16 Apr. 1971, 9. Document 124: Annual Reminder in Philadelphia, July 1969 The document reprinted in The Stonewall Riots is A. B. [Ada Bello], “The Second Largest Minority,” Homophile Action League Newsletter, Aug. 1969, 2. For related sources on the Annual Reminders in 1965, 1966, 1967, and 1968, see Chapter 3. For related sources, see A. B. [Ada Bello], “In the Movement,” Homophile Action League Newsletter, May 1969, 4-5; Bill Wingell, “Great to Be Gay: A Time for Holding Hands,” Distant Drummer, 10 July 1969, 8; “150 Homosexuals Parade Before Independence Hall to Protest Mistreatment,” Philadelphia Tribune, 12 July 1969, 5; Len Lear, “Confederate Flag Flies Atop White House,” Philadelphia Tribune, 15 July 1969, 9, 28; “Reminder Day Demonstration,” Homophile Action League Newsletter, July 1969, 6; “In the News,” Mattachine Society of New York Newsletter, July 1969, 9; “The Fifth Fourth,” The Insider: Newsletter of the Mattachine Society of Washington, July 1969, 1-2; “Gays Confront Gov’t.,” Vector, July 1969, 11; The Insider: Newsletter of the Mattachine Society of Washington, Aug. 1969, 2-3; The Ladder, Oct. 1969, front cover, 39-40, back cover. Document 125: Gay Power Vigil in New York City, July 1969 The document reprinted in The Stonewall Riots is “Gay Liberation Meetings” and “The Gay Power Vigil,” The Ladder, Oct. 1969, 40-41. For related sources, see “From Outside the Pen,” Rat, late July 1969, 4; Jonathan Black, “Gay Power Hits Back,” Village Voice, 31 July 1969, 1, 3; William B. Kelley, “Gaylimnufry,” Mattachine Midwest Newsletter, Aug. 1969, 2; Lige Clark and Jack Nichols, “N. Y. Gays: Will the Spark Die?” Los Angeles Advocate, Sep. 1969, 3, 12; Lige and Jack, “New York Notes,” Los Angeles Advocate, Oct. 1969, 6, 8; Marty Stephan, “Bitch: Summer’s Not Forever,” Come Out!, 14 Nov. 1969, 12; Tom Burke, “The New Homosexuality,” Esquire, Dec. 1969, 178, 304-318; Leo Skir, “Gay Liberation,” The Ladder, Feb. 1970, 8- 13. Document 126: Kew Gardens Rally in New York City, August 1969 The document reprinted in The Stonewall Riots is “Kew Gardens Rally,” Mattachine Society of New York Newsletter, Sep. 1969, 4. For related sources, see David Bird, “Trees in a Queens Park Cut Down as Vigilantes Harass Homosexuals,” New York Times, 1 July 1969, 1, 29; “Vigilantes Chop Up ‘Homosexual’ Park,” San Francisco Chronicle, 1 July 1969, 5; David Bird, “Queens Resident Says the Police Stood By as Park Trees Were Cut,” New York Times, 2 July 1969, 38; S; Al Sostchen and Timothy Lee, “Heckscher: Probe Anti-Homosexual Vandals,” New York Post, 2 July 1969, 32; Dirck van Sickie, letter to the editor, New York Post, 3 July 1969; “Police Did Answer Call on Cut Trees,” New York Times, 3 July 1969, 29; William 2 Primavera, letter to the editor, New York Times, 3 July 1969, 30; David Bird, “2d Witness Tells of Park Tree-Cutting,” New York Times, 4 July 1969, 25; John Bickford, letter to the editor, New York Times, 5 July 1969, 18; “Arboreal Vandals in Queens,” New York Times, 7 July 1969, 32; David Bird, “Police Continuing Inquiry on Trees,” New York Times, 16 July 1969, 50; “Vigilantes Destroy Park,” Mattachine Society of New York Newsletter, July 1969, 25; William B. Kelley, “Riot, Tree-Cutting Mark NYC Gay Scene,” Mattachine Midwest Newsletter, July 1969, 7; “KKK Rides in Queens,” Mattachine Society of New York Newsletter, Aug. 1969, 8-9; “Vandalism in Park,” Mattachine Society of New York Newsletter, Aug. 1969, 10; “Vigilantes Destroy Park,” Mattachine Society of New York Newsletter, c. Aug. 1969, 24-25; “Tangents,” Tangents, Aug. 1969, 12-13; The Insider: Newsletter of the Mattachine Society of Washington, Aug. 1969, 1-2; “Inquiries Still Open in Tree-Chopping at Park in Queens,” New York Times, 18 Sep. 1969, 49; “‘Vigilantes Destroy N.Y. Park to Rout Homosexuals,” Los Angeles Advocate, Sep. 1969, 26; “The Birth of Gay Power,” Daughters of Bilitis New York Newsletter, Sep. 1969, 1-2; “Cross Currents,” The Ladder, Oct. 1969, 38; “Tangents,” Tangents, Oct. 1969, 17; Marty Stephen, “Bitch: Summer’s Not Forever,” Come Out!, 14 Nov. 1969, 12; “Cross Currents, The Ladder, Dec. 1969, 29. Document 127: Village Voice Protest, September 1969 The document reprinted in The Stonewall Riots is Mike Brown, Michael Tallman, and Leo Louis Martello, “The Summer of Gay Power and the VV Exposed,” Come Out!, 14 Nov. 1969, 10-11. For related sources, see “News,” Gay Power (1.2), c. Sep. 1969, 22; Leo E. Laurence, “‘Homosexuals’ Play on U.C. Campus,” Berkeley Tribe, 10 Oct. 1969, 11; Lige and Jack, “New York Notes,” Los Angeles Advocate, Nov. 1969, 26; “Village Voice Blackout?” GAY, 1 Dec. 1969, 10; “Cross Currents,” The Ladder, Dec. 1969, 32. Document 128: San Francisco Examiner Protest, October 1969 The document reprinted in The Stonewall Riots is “S.F. Cops Arrest 12 Pickets after Melee at Examiner,” Los Angeles Advocate, Jan. 1970, 2, 10. For related sources, see Robert Patterson, “The Dreary Revels of S.F. ‘Gay’ Clubs,” San Francisco Examiner, 25 Oct. 1969, 8; “Gay Liberation Front,” Berkeley Barb, 31 Oct. 1969, 6; Leo E. Laurence, “Gays Penetrate Examiner,” Berkeley Tribe, 31 Oct. 1969, 4; Jerry Carroll, “Gay Melee at Examiner,” San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Nov. 1969, 5; “Protesting Homosexuals Seize City Hall in S.F.,” Washington Post, 1 Nov. 1969, A2; “Bad Day for Gay Group,” San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Nov. 1969, 37; Leo E. Laurence, “Gay Fifteen Get Shaft,” Berkeley Tribe, 7 Nov. 1969, 7, 27; Leo E. Lawrence, “Gays Rising Up Angry,” Berkeley Tribe, 7 Nov. 1969, 8; “Goons Gang Gay Guerillas,” Berkeley Barb, 7 Nov. 1969, 6; Larry Clarkson, “A Fairy Tale,” San Francisco Free Press, 15 Nov. 1969, 1, 2; Marcus Overseth, “24 Hours: From Bust to Bail,” San Francisco Free Press, 15 Nov. 1969, 3; “Didn’t Finger Gays Says City Cop,” Berkeley Tribe, 27 Nov. 1969, 9; William Kelley, “L.A., S.F.