Gay Liberation Front and gay students and supporters demonstrate & occupy N.Y.U.’s Weinstein Hall, for the rights of gay people on campus. Photo by Diana Davies, 1970.
the closer it gets to the big day, GLBT Pride, the more and more we get excited for the rush of power and emotion we feel during the parade, watching mothers walk proudly with their gay sons, watching same sex senior citizens slowly make their way down broadway after being together for over half a decade, watching teenagers feeling free and safe in the streets for tgh he first time in their lives, activists scurrying around from one point of of cheerleading to another of educating, straight people smiling at us not in pity or disgust or because we make them laugh like clowns but because they are truly happy for the strides we have made in society. i have been attending the parade since my senior year of high school back in 1993. as often as possible we shall be posting these cornucopias if you will of bits and pieces of political propaganda, moments captured in gay civil rights movement history, short films, comedic and campy caricatures and more. enjoy!
A very modern military partnership
Only 10 years ago, the Army was expelling soldiers for homosexuality. Now gay weddings get the regimental blessing. Terri Judd reports.
DAVID SANDISON
The civil partnership ceremony at which L/Cpl James Wharton, of the Household Cavalry, married Thom McCaffrey, a regimental first
One groom wore ceremonial uniform with his Iraq medal, the other morning dress with an orchid. Surrounded by silverware and paintings commemorating great battles, Lance Corporal James Wharton, 23, and his new husband enjoyed their first dance to Tina Turner in the warrant officers’ mess of the most prestigious regiment in the land.
The Household Cavalry, famed for escorting the Queen during state occasions and the fact that it counts both her grandsons among its officers, celebrated its first gay wedding in style. L/Cpl Wharton was joined in a civil partnership with his boyfriend, the Virgin air steward Thom McCaffrey, 21, surrounded by members of L/Cpl Wharton’s regiment, the Blues and Royals.
“The entire regiment has been really supportive,” he said. “When I went to ask the Squadron Leader, Major Nana Twumasi-Ankrah, for permission to get married, he just said ‘This is fantastic, congratulations’.”
“28 ready-to-color images by Jacinta Bunnell, Irit Reinheimer and various talented illustrators.
Given the gender stereotypes pervasive in most children’s media, this coloring book is a wonderful invention.
It is a fun consciousness-raising tool for adults & children who want to unlearn a lifetime of sexist and heterosexist education. Besides buying a copy for yourself and children, how about donating one to your local school, library, chapter of PFLAG, or LGBT youth group?
Published by Soft Skull Press.
View more pages at www.girlsnotchicks.com“
the h.o.d. daily gazette
