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#1 swmr545

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Posted 03 October 2005 - 05:53 AM

Well, since it's officially Gay History Month, I thought it would be fun to put some little factoids up during October.

Here's the first....

Although many people think the Gay Movement started with the Stonewall Riots in June of 1969, it actually started with the March on Independence Hall in Phillidelphia in March of 1965.

This has been a heated topic of discussion amongst those that were envolved with the two events. Many people don't know about the Independence Hall event because it isn't talked much within the LGBT Community.

Stonewall is known because those who were patrons of the gay bars finally became upset with the way the police were treating them. The names of those arrested would be printed in the morning edition of the paper and many of those people were fired for being gay, and others were harassed and beat up.
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Posted 03 October 2005 - 10:06 AM

Isn't October 11th the annual National Coming Out Day? National Coming Out Day has been around for several years.

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Posted 03 October 2005 - 01:30 PM

QUOTE(Farley @ Oct 3 2005, 10:06 AM)
Isn't October 11th the annual National Coming Out Day?  National Coming Out Day has been around for several years.

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Posted 03 October 2005 - 02:08 PM

QUOTE(swmr545 @ Oct 3 2005, 02:30 PM)
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Tell us more about Independence Hall- as I am new - and Farley has never mentioned it - what you know ?


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Posted 03 October 2005 - 02:35 PM

here is an account of that date- I had never heard this before-
More on the web site
http://hnn.us/articles/11652.html

Forty years ago, three teen-agers in Philadelphia took an extraordinary step by refusing to take a step. Their sit-in began on Sunday, April 25, 1965, at Dewey's restaurant near Rittenhouse Square in Center City. According to an account provided several months later by Clark Polak, a gay-rights leader in Philadelphia, "the action was a result of Dewey's refusal to serve a large number of homosexuals and persons wearing non-conformist clothing."

On the day of the sit-in, more than 150 people were reportedly denied service. When the teen-agers, one female and two male, refused to leave, the police were called, and the three were taken into custody and arrested. Polak, who rushed to the scene and offered to help the three protesters obtain a lawyer, was also arrested. All four were soon found guilty of disorderly conduct.

Over the next week, gay-rights activists affiliated with the Janus Society of America distributed 1,500 leaflets outside of Dewey's, while gay movement leaders negotiated with representatives of the restaurant and local authorities. According to a report published in 1965 in the Janus Society newsletter, "No one was further denied service on the basis of appearance or suspected affiliations."

On May, 2, 1965, one week after the original action, three people conducted a second sit-in at Dewey's. When they refused to leave, Dewey's contacted the police, who spoke with the protesters, declined to take further action, and departed.

Polak's 1965 account indicates that the police told him that "we could stay in there as long as we wanted as the police had no authority to ask us to leave


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Posted 03 October 2005 - 03:47 PM

Looks like you have a lot company. October is also:

National Cyber Security Awareness Month
Children's Health Month
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
National Dental Hygiene Month
Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 - Oct. 15)
Blck History Month
National Orthodontic Health Month
National Novel Writing Month
Women's History Month
Clergy Appreciation Month
Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Health Literacy Month
National Popcorn Popping Month
Energy Awareness Month
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Posted 03 October 2005 - 03:53 PM

It's also National Cause of the Month Months Suck Month.

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Posted 03 October 2005 - 03:56 PM

QUOTE(anonymous @ Oct 3 2005, 03:47 PM)
Looks like you have a lot company.  October is also:

National Cyber Security Awareness Month
Children's Health Month
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
National Dental Hygiene Month
Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 - Oct. 15)
Blck History Month
National Orthodontic Health Month
National Novel Writing Month
Women's History Month
Clergy Appreciation Month
Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Health Literacy Month
National Popcorn Popping Month
Energy Awareness Month

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Black history month is not October, it is February. 12 months available, and they give us the shortest one. tongue.gif



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Posted 03 October 2005 - 04:01 PM

QUOTE(stevethedad @ Oct 3 2005, 04:56 PM)
Black history month is not October, it is February. 12 months available, and they give us the shortest one.  tongue.gif

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No no, he said it was "Blck History Month". The Blcks were a Latvian whaling culture.

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Posted 03 October 2005 - 05:39 PM

QUOTE(anonymous @ Oct 3 2005, 04:47 PM)
Looks like you have a lot company.  October is also:

National Popcorn Popping Month

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I'm there man.
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Posted 03 October 2005 - 05:57 PM

QUOTE(stevethedad @ Oct 3 2005, 04:56 PM)
Black history month is not October, it is February. 12 months available, and they give us the shortest one.  tongue.gif

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Well, yeah, but don't forget that one extra day every four years - yours to do with what you will. blink.gif
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Posted 03 October 2005 - 06:05 PM

QUOTE(folsom500 @ Oct 3 2005, 02:08 PM)
Tell us more about Independence Hall- as I am new - and Farley has never mentioned it - what you know ?
Cheers
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Looks like you found the info. I didn't know of this event either until a couple years ago.
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Posted 03 October 2005 - 06:29 PM

QUOTE(anonymous @ Oct 3 2005, 03:47 PM)
Looks like you have a lot company.  October is also:

National Cyber Security Awareness Month
Children's Health Month
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
National Dental Hygiene Month
Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 - Oct. 15)
Blck History Month
National Orthodontic Health Month
National Novel Writing Month
Women's History Month
Clergy Appreciation Month
Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Health Literacy Month
National Popcorn Popping Month
Energy Awareness Month

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How curious that we have Children's Health Month, Dental Hygiene Monthe and Orthodontic Health Month right before we send our kids out to the streets on Halloween to beg for sugar highs! (Oh how I dislike the candy part of trick-or-treating!!......I am trying hard to find special non-food treats this year for the little goblins that come to my door.)

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Posted 03 October 2005 - 07:10 PM

Yea, history is pretty ghey, man.

Wait...what? blink.gif
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Posted 03 October 2005 - 07:25 PM

QUOTE(forumreader @ Oct 3 2005, 06:29 PM)
How curious that we have Children's Health Month, Dental Hygiene Monthe and Orthodontic Health Month right before we send our kids out to the streets on Halloween to beg for sugar highs!  (Oh how I dislike the candy part of trick-or-treating!!......I am trying hard to find special non-food treats this year for the little goblins that come to my door.)

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Bouncy Balls! I loved those as a kid.
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