By:Patty Winsa News reporter, Published on Sat Jun 27 2015
In February 1976, two gay activists were arrested at the corner of Yonge and Bloor Sts. for kissing each other. They were charged with indecency and later convicted. In response, gay organizations staged a “kiss-in” at the same intersection. Tim McCaskell, Gerald Hannon and Ed Jackson were among the protesters. Their interviews have been condensed and edited.
Why did you stage the kiss-in after the arrest and charges against the two men?
Tim McCaskell: The two arrested men were part of this “Alternative to Alienation” collective, which was kind of flaky. They weren’t particularly a gay group, but they were sexual liberation, psychological stuff, anti-capitalist. It was all this primeval muck of that 1970s period.
But when it actually came down to it, (the men) hired a lawyer who said we don’t want any kind of politics around this at all. So they were found guilty. And they said they were going to appeal. And they didn’t appeal, just paid the fine. And it was over. But for those of us in the gay liberation movement, that left this precedent on the law books that two men kissing in public was a crime, because they hadn’t fought it. So in order to be able to try to challenge that, we organized a kiss-in.
Gerald Hannon: It was the perfect emblem. The two men were arrested and charged and fined for their kiss. It makes perfect sense to flaunt it after that, and say, we dare you to do something this time. (The police) didn’t, of course. And it was so important to be public in those days. It’s hard to imagine now, when it’s pretty easy. You were supposed to be ashamed of yourself. This was a good way of showing that we weren’t.
President Barack Obama Speaks on Marriage Ruling. President Obama declared Friday that the Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide is “a victory for America.” Obama: ‘A big step in our march toward equality’ – WASHINGTON — President Obama ‘s first reaction to the Supreme Court decision requiring states to recognize same-sex marriage came, of course, in a tweet. President Barack Obama declared Friday that the Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide is “a victory for America.”From the White House Rose Garden, he said that social progress sometimes is slow, “and then there are days like this, when that slow, steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt.” “America should be very proud,” he said.
Meet The Man Who Created The Rainbow Flag by Ben Reininga for REFINERY29
A big rainbow flag flaps lazily outside the gay community center in Manhattan’s West Village. It’s a rarity, hand-sewn and oversize, with eight colored stripes. I’m there to meet its creator, Gilbert Baker, a gay rights icon who created the pride flag nearly forty years ago, and is the force behind its adoption as the now ubiquitous symbol of the LGBT rights movement.
As we walk inside, he points above our heads — “That’s one of mine” — and then leads us up to a classroom (he’s an active volunteer at the center and greets several people on the stairs) to tell me how the pride flag came about.
It was 1978. Anita Bryant, the beauty queen turned conservative activist had just finished her nationwide anti-gay rights crusade. Baker was living in San Francisco, which had become a haven the gay community fleeing less tolerant locales. “It was a wonderful time,” he says. “Harvey [Milk] hadn’t been murdered yet and gay artistic empowerment — you had gay chorus, gay band, gay theater, gay film, all of this stuff — was just flowering.”
It was Milk, the first openly gay man elected to public office in the states, who invited Baker to make a flag for a gay rights march he was organizing — just months before his assassination that fall. “Because I loved to sew, my role in the movement became to make banners,” Baker says. “That’s really how I ended up making the first flag — I was the guy who could sew it.”
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Mark’s cock gets hard enough to cut diamonds, so he bends his friend over the couch and proceeds to pound away at Lucas’ meaty ass, his thick cock slapping up against his stomach every time Mark thrusts deeper into him. Wanting to test it out for himself, Lucas mounts Mark, grinding onto him and spreading wide to accomodate Mark’s giant dick, as it fills Lucas up completely. Mark then inverts him over the back of the sofa and pile drives him as Lucas jerks himself off, spraying his massive load all over himself as Mark continues to pound away, before pulling out and blasting Lucas with an overdue, pent up load of his own.
CONFESSIONS OF A BOY TOY: Gay Christmas is here! And what better way to commemorate Pride season than by drooling over some hot vintage photos from Los Angeles Gay Pride. Photographer Alan Light has been attending the Los Angeles LGBT Pride parade since the late 80’s and lucky for us, he had his camera by his side, documenting the sun-tanned, muscled-up, Reagan-hating era in vivid detail.
