Queer History: May
By Welcome to Queer History! Queer History will be a bi-monthly feature highlighting important days in queer history from around the world during the month.
The beginning of May is not exactly chockfull of queer historical events, but I did manage to find a couple of dates of interest.
First week of May, 1970 – Morris Knight leads the Los Angeles Gay Liberation Front (GLF) in a zap of American Psychiatric Association conference in San Francisco, interrupting a film on electroshock therapy as a method for changing sexual orientation with a protest. Many psychiatrists spent an hour talking to them and invited them to a future conference to talk about homosexuality. This protest started the conversations that led to the removal of homosexuality from the DSM in 1973.
5 May 2011 – Brazil’s Supremo Tribunal Federal (Supreme Federal Court) unanimously votes to extend the 112 rights bestowed by União Estável (Stable Unions) to same-sex relationships.
*Featured Image is of the Supremo Tribunal Federal in Brazil.
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I really like this idea!
Between Global Quickies over on Skepchick and Queer History here, I’m going to spend so much more time on the network.
Carry on, good sir!
Ooooooh, I just realized it has been a full year since that STF ruling, ha. That was one very happy day, (:
A few months after the ruling there were a lot of news coming out where couples who’d been on court for years were finally extended those rights, it was a pretty happy year, actually.
People still have to go to court to get the “união estável” documents, though (it’s just WAY easier now).