Atlanta Police Sued For Making Homosexuals Place Moisturized Faces on Dirty Bar Floor

If the rhythm doesn't get you, Lambda Legal will: They just filed suit against the City of Atalanta, the chief of police, and 48 police officers over September's Eagle bar raid.
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Common Decency, Common Sense

by David Link

I’ve obviously been in a foul mood since Maine, and needed some good cheer.
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UN panel: killing of Russian journalists alarming

UN panel: killing of Russian journalists alarmingThe Associated PressThe expert panel said it also was concerned about violence against lesbian, gay and bisexual persons, including reports of police harassment.
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A New March, a New Movement

by Jennifer VanascoFirst published in the Chicago Free Press on October 14, 2009

The Equality March was a success.
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Tomorrow: Rally At Atlanta City Hall To Protest Police Harassment At Eagle Raid

At noon tomorrow, Saturday, a massive rally is planned for Atlanta's City Hall in protest of police actions during the raid of the Atlanta Eagle last week.
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Hundreds Rally At Atlanta Eagle

Hundreds of protesters gathered at the Atlanta Eagle this weekend to decry last week's raid by the Atlanta police.
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Religious street preacher claims police harassment

A religious speaker has claimed he suffered 'intimidation and abuse' at the hands of three Manchester police officers - after they warned him his Bible preaching could incite hatred on the grounds of race and sexual orientation
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Hiding behind stone walls (Mail and Guardian)

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York when, for the first time in history, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people fought back against decades of police harassment.
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Stonewell Still Making a Difference Across the Pond

Plenty has been written about the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, commemorated last weeek, but I thought this article from the BBC was particularly interesting, reminding us that the impact of that event was felt far beyond American borders.
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Gay community split over 'depoliticised' London Pride

When the gay clientele of a New York bar staged a revolt against police harassment in June 1969 it sparked the awakening of the homosexual liberation movement.
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JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む (Japan Today)

New Delhi’s gay community celebrated a landmark court ruling decriminalizing homosexuality _ a decision that could end widespread police harassment and be a harbinger for gradual acceptance of homosexuals across this deeply conservative country.
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Court decriminalizes gay sex in Indian capital

New Delhi's gay community celebrated a landmark court ruling Thursday that decriminalizes homosexuality — a decision that could end widespread police harassment and be a harbinger for gradual acceptance for homosexuals across this deeply conservative country.
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Gay rights mean different things to different generations of community

Before there were domestic-partnership registries and commitment ceremonies, before same-sex marriages and civil unions — before the gay-rights movement, even — John McCluskey and Rudy Henry met, fell in love and harbored the notion that they could spend their lives making one another happy.
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Video: No son, I can't go swimming on this lovely June day -- I have gays to film.

Pete's discovered YouTube: Okay, (a) a parade participant is not expected to support every last message that makes up the processional, and (b) one decidedly hardcore group's message about fighting back against instances of unfair police harassment doesn't mean that.
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We're Here -- 40 years later

by David Link

Frank Rich’s Sunday essay in the NY Times is about gay rights and Stonewall, and it goes without saying it’s worth reading.
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Stonewall Riots; June 27, 1969.

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, commonly considered the genesis of the official Gay Rights Movement.
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Breaking Gay News...

Stonewall, 40 Years On By Luis Torres | Friday Jun 26, 2009 Forty years ago, a New York City bar called the Stonewall Inn shot to global attention when its gay clientele staged a revolt against police harassment, launching the US gay rights movement.
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Gay rights movement: 40 years since Stonewall riots

Forty years ago, a New York City bar called the Stonewall Inn shot to global attention when its gay clientele staged a revolt against police harassment, launching the US homosexual rights movement.
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Inland gays say much has changed since 1969s Stonewall riots (The Press-Enterprise)

When Connie Confer picked up a gay and lesbian newsletter in the summer of 1969, she was shocked to read that gays in New York City had rioted against police harassment.
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Stonewalled

Seven pages of newly released police reports have helped cast new light on the Stonewall uprising, a six-day series of disturbances that began as a protest by gays against police harassment and became a defining moment in the gay-rights movement.
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