This Is How Whitewashing Us Out of GLBT History Begins
Posted by Monica Roberts at 6:42 AM
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/02/this-is-how-whitewashing-us-out-of-glbt.htmlLast February over at the Bilerico Project I wrote a post for Black History Month about the 1965 Dewey Lunch Counter Sit-In Protest in Philadelphia. which is the first documented evidence of an organized African-American GLBT civil rights protest.
The significance of this is that it happened four years before the June 1969 Stonewall Riots that kicked off the modern GLBT rights movement, and I wrote an October 2007 TransGriot post about it. I was sent the heads up by Dr. Susan Stryker, who does a yeoman's job compiling transgender history and thought I'd find that tidbit interesting.
I wrote this paragraph in my February 2008 Bilerico post on the Dewey's Protest.
The interesting aspect of this campaign is not that it happened during the height of the 1960's Civil Rights movement. It was an African-American GLBT production.
