Day 2 of the National LGBT Blogger and Citizen Journalist Initiative
by: Pam Spaulding
Sun Dec 07, 2008 at 10:30:00 AM EST
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Tim McFeeley, Former HRC Director and NGLTF Policy Institute Director, gave a talk, "Reviewing Our History, Assessing Our Present and Planning our Future." He covered a wide range of issues and historical milestones from Stonewall through today, and discussed how to create new messaging for the next generation of social activists.
Some of the figures and topics in LGBT history that Tim discussed in an insightful presentation:
* Stonewall
* Harry Hay and The Mattchine Society.
* Daughters of Bilitis, The Ladder, and Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon
* J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson
* Frank Kameny, legendary activist and legend of messaging (see "Gay Is Good: How Frank Kameny changed the face of America")
* Barbara Gittings and Kay Lahusen
* The use of ECT and lobotomies to "treat" homosexuality
* Early LGBT groups such as: Gay Liberation Front, Gay Community Network and Gay Activists' Alliance, Gay Rights National Lobby, the latter was the first organization involved in affecting legislation. Human Rights Campaign Fund (the first iteration of HRC) was founded as a PAC.
* How equal rights for women were added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act at the last minute "poison pill" -- but still passed. Public accommodations law did not cover women at the time either.
* Anita Bryant and the Save Our Children (1977)
* "No Promo Homo" policies