{"id":4133,"date":"2018-05-03T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinkmince.com\/mood\/2018\/05\/03\/lgbt-history-archive-a-secret-world-grows-open\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T01:25:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T06:25:35","slug":"lgbt-history-archive-a-secret-world-grows-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/03\/lgbt-history-archive-a-secret-world-grows-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Homosexuality in America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"378\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/tumblr_os67dd75ez1v6m5vmo1_500.jpg.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/tumblr_os67dd75ez1v6m5vmo1_500.jpg.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/tumblr_os67dd75ez1v6m5vmo1_500.jpg-300x227.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/lgbt-history-archive.tumblr.com\/post\/162287994072\/a-secret-world-grows-open-and-bolder-society-is\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lgbt-history-archive<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA SECRET WORLD GROWS OPEN AND BOLDER. SOCIETY IS FORCED TO LOOK AT IT\u2014AND TRY TO UNDERSTAND IT\u2026HOMOSEXUALITY IN AMERICA,\u201d by Paul Welch, Life, June 26, 1964.<br \/>.<br \/>On June 26, 1964, fifty-three years ago today, Life offered a fourteen-page \u201creport on homosexuality\u201d that more accurately can be described as a report on America\u2019s ignorance of, and distaste for, homosexuals. The subjects, according to the author, \u201care part of what they call the \u2018gay world,\u2019 which is actually a sad and often sordid world\u2026This social disorder, which society tries to suppress\u2026does present a problem\u2013and parents are especially concerned.\u201d<br \/>.<br \/>While the article was groundbreaking in that it featured now-familiar names (e.g., pioneer Jos\u00e9 Sarria), places (e.g., legendary leather bar The Toolbox (pictured)), and organizations (e.g., Mattachine Society and ONE), it also perpetuated stereotypes (listing, for example, \u201cthose professions favored by homosexuals\u201d as \u201cinterior decorating, fashion design, hairstyling, dance and theater\u201d), emphasized self-loathing among gay men (quoting a bar owner as saying, \u201cThis is a place for men, a place without all those screaming faggots, fuzzy sweaters, and sneakers\u201d), and explored the tension between the equally harmful views of law enforcement (describing the \u201cunrelenting crackdown on homosexuals\u201d in Los Angeles) and certain religious organizations, which \u201c[did] not condone homosexuality but [did] regard it as a psychological problem.\u201d<br \/>.<br \/>Interestingly, the article noted a recent legal challenge to the Civil Service Commission\u2019s regulations prohibiting homosexuals from working in the federal government; while not named in the article, Bruce C. Scott, a member of the Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C., was behind that challenge. On June 26, 1965, a year after the LIFE article, Mattachine Washington and other groups made history by picketing the Civil Service Commission in support of Scott\u2019s case. #lgbthistory #HavePrideInHistory #Resist (at San Francisco, California)<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lgbt-history-archive: \u201cA SECRET WORLD GROWS OPEN AND BOLDER. SOCIETY IS FORCED TO LOOK AT IT\u2014AND TRY TO UNDERSTAND IT\u2026HOMOSEXUALITY IN AMERICA,\u201d by Paul Welch, Life, June 26, 1964..On June 26, 1964, fifty-three years ago today, Life offered a fourteen-page \u201creport on homosexuality\u201d that more accurately can be described as a report on America\u2019s ignorance of, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/03\/lgbt-history-archive-a-secret-world-grows-open\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homosexuality in America&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultragay"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71481,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133\/revisions\/71481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}