LGBT+ History By The Decades: Gay Liberation | Episode 7

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After Stonewall brought the LGBT community together, it began to drift apart. Watch to learn about how liberation turned into activism, parades, and disagreement.
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[@artemiswolf4508]

Imagine how secure you have to be about your sexuality to be the one straight man in the Village People.

[@jiurn4848]

I swear the second I heard Sylvia Rivera talk I started crying

[@chickenwithitsheadcutoff]

u and me both friend

[@stephaniesummer2663]

jiurn I would have too if I felt emotions.

[@actuallyitsjay8900]

Same

[@dannyblanco8544]

When it zoomed into her fist, I began to cry

[@sarenamae2029]

When I read jiurn's initial comment, I laughed. Then I heard Silvia Rivera talk. I cried.

[@cousinit823]

I would totally buy some of your merch but i am indeed a broke gay

[@grizzlycharizard0017]

I am a broke gay as well.

[@mollykate422]

your videos are so important to me. sad we never learn about any of this in school :/

[@mollykate422]

LittleBilly_169 ancap you can’t create a definition saying what is and isn’t necessary. im just saying its sad we never even touch the topic of gay rights in school.

[@LoveRegi00]

@LittleBilly_169 ancap What are you talking about? LGBTQ+ History Month is in October in the States and Canada and February in the UK. Besides that, you're telling me that it can't be focused on during history class or another social science class? It's history. People were treated like shit and/or killed (still are).www.cnn.com/2018/07/14/asia/indonesia-banda-aceh-public-flogging-intl/index.html thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/427247-iran-publicly-hangs-man-found-guilty-of-homosexuality-charges The point of history is for people to learn from it and not repeat.

[@rparl]

I was a member of the Society for Individual Rights, a pre-Stonewall organization in San Francisco. The SIR Center had meetings, dances, and other events in their second floor location on S 6th Street. They also published Vector, a magazine with a gay model on the cover and in the center spread.

[@Old-USRefugee]

I got two of my first jobs in San Francisco through SIR. Since I was rejected by Selective Service, it was very difficult to find a job, if you were an out Gay man.

[@nicolebee3283]

I’d never heard of Sylvia and I’m surprised that she was basically erased from history and I believe she was the trans equivalent of Rosa parks

[@adrianz5614]

Not tolerating terfs/fighting their toxic ideas and protecting trans people is gay culture.

[@tarantulasareterfs]

Lesbians dont do dick, and you will not trans our butch historical figures

[@sexigmanniska1210]

Fr, we need to stand up for those in need

[@elinathan8363]

"queer history doesn't get views" PPFFFFFFFTT

[@Old-USRefugee]

Half of the younger gay generation, could care less about it unfortunately.

[@anne156]

i’m so proud.... i don’t even know why but i’m legit a proud mom right now. thank you for covering this history it is incredibly interesting and shines a light on the events that many people have never heard of.

[@Marigaymemes]

Hey Alex (and Brian!) my Spanish teacher and I have been arguing for almost a week now over the way Jk Rowling made Dumbldor gay after releasing the books. I said it’s a grab for “wokeness” points but he says it’s subtextual and doesn’t need to be explicitly stated to be considered representation. I tried to argue that “non explicit representation” is often just queerbait but he said (and I quote) “your generation wants everything to be explicate and out but not everyone is out. Just because your undeveloped teenage mind- “ (and that’s where he got cut off by everyone’s ooohhhhhs.) I just think you can’t say you are an ally if you waited until there was no chance of financial or other backlash to claim a character is gay. The books were already released. Also he tried to argue that there was no reason for them to mention anyone’s sexuality but when I responded then why are all the other characters explicitly in only heterosexual relationships he didn’t have a response other than they ~could~ be bi. (Which brings me back to queerbait and how queer interpretations are dismissed. I’m sure if I tried to argue Drarry he dismiss it just as he would if I argued dumbldor is gay if she hadn’t made that statement.) anyway I was wondering if I could get your opinion on the whole “Dumbldor is gay” thing especially with the new movies director saying he’s not going to make Dumbldor “explicitly gay”. (Also anyone else that read this and has an opinion.) ((Sorry this is so long. I really like debating and I wrote a four page argument against him on Monday instead of studying for math.))

[@faemaiden5090]

yea... harry potter is EXTREMELY heterocentric

[@hexx2211]

I agree with you. If it isn't visible it isn't really representation.

[@oof-rr5nf]

OP, I love your comment and agree with all your points.

[@Sylvyi]

JK Rowling published Harry Potter years ago though, when there was absolutely no LGBTQ representation in children's books. There's no way it could've been published if she'd made him explicitly gay.

[@oof-rr5nf]

@@Sylvyi Good point. But she was so famous and powerful already. Maybe she could've pushed for if she actually wanted to. Anyway, I for one am mostly disgruntled by her hogging credit for representation she did not show in her work itself, and the refusal of the franchise to really get into the romantic aspect of the history between Dumbledore and Grindle-whatever, even when now be an apt opportunity to do so.

[@orcarmon4527]

I love your queer history videos

[@alexandrite4260]

Great video! Could you please do something about the subtitles, I’ve worked on finnish subtitles for your subtext video, and there’s no option to add your own subtitles, please please please let me translate it and do something about this! Another thing, could you do Richie and Eddie from it for the next are hey gay? Love you 💕

[@spookisghostly4619]

It's been months but it was so worth it

[@danielewenkhare3600]

I’m black, gay and PROUD and I love 💗 💖 💕 my LGBTQIA+ 🏳️‍🌈 family across the Globe

[@TheRetroWoman80]

💚💚💚💚🌈

[@pjsorem8141]

Yessss! I'm so glad you're continuing with this series! It's so hecking good!

[@spacesapphic637]

I love this series so much! Thank you for taking the time to teach us what school won't!

[@lily-xj3hv]

yeet ive missed these

[@lanepenny9857]

Be glad. It wasnt enjoyable

[@noctoi]

Thanks for all your hard work with these vids. I'll definitely be sharing. Some of the most down to earth and well researched essays on queer history I've seen on this platform. Thank you 💜

[@tatsf]

When I first got to NYC in 75 I was 18 and went to some meetings of the Gay Activists Alliance as it was still around. Thank you for promoting the remembrance of our LGBTQ history! I believe that it is very important that it doesn't get lost as those of us who lived it get older and pass. People think that everything is online these days, but this type of info is only there if people put it there! I was a teen in Syracuse and was out in the bars since 15-16. I just tried to look up some of that history and it was pretty sparse!

[@chaallus]

I watched all 7 episodes of 'Queer History' and must say -- well done!!

[@whitneypeterson2079]

Great video! I'm curious to know where you acquired the historic photographs? Thanks!

[@infizer0]

wait you're telling me the people who sing ymca were gay? ...i knew it

[@Old-USRefugee]

Listen to the lyrics!

[@MrSmooth273]

Thank you ! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁👌👌💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹✌✌

[@rocaroro]

Can you do Alex and Brian from AreTheyGay?

[@dudebro6145]

Thank you sensei

[@acchuptalaily7353]

Sylvia Rivera is such an icon

[@dimesmothied7727]

How about Jedtavius from Night at the museum. I know you usually only do TV shows and not movies but it would be cool to discuss

[@bisexualmajima]

This was such a great video. Thanks for spreading this important knowledge.

[@eve36368]

Well I've heard that the difference between "transsexual" & "transvestite" would equate roughly to "truscum"/"transmedicalist" & "tucute"/"transgender" today. However cross dressers were also known as "transvestites" since so much of the early movement depended on perception/attribution & actions that invoke those. So to that degree that is true.

[@lovelysunshinee6646]

Will you please do an “are they gay” for killua and gon from hunter x hunter? It would be SUCH A GOOD VIDEO. Like there’s this one part at the end of the greed island arc where biscy asks what gon will do when he finds his father ging, and gon says that that he’s going to introduce gon to killua because he’s his “best friend” and killua starts blushing and it’s adorable.

[@annyyanez3220]

Video idea suggestion: I don’t know how familiar you are with Greek mythology, but I’ve been taking a class in it in Uni and would love you do a video on Achilles and Patroclus! I think they’re gay af, but many historians think they’re straight. Almost all the OG ppl who wrote the myths reference Achilles and Patroclus as lovers but again, historians are like “just dude being bros”

[@lilahfeuquay5351]

"DECADES" >"HISTORY" > "NEVER" > Used > or > Called it : LGBT - (+) - PRIDE -/etc./

[@reverseashv2169]

Can you do a video on lgbt progress on television. There’s an article floating around where the CW is hailed for its growth in lgbt representation. Which is honestly debatable, seeing as they’re upping the quantity of gays but not the quality of the gays

[@petelarose998]

I support all these moments of liberation. Peter

[@sparrowhawk4641]

That “revolution now” moved my bones

[@lilyfraney4152]

This channel is such a fucking blessing I just can’t say it enough

[@fengxianzhe]

I remember watching a video it was so beautiful to see homosexual men know they were men, now they believe they can be a woman. I never seen a lion try to be a penguin.

[@gabbiocampo1748]

Hey sorry I’m two weeks late to posting this but I just wanted to suggest that you talk about Nancy Garden and her work- Annie on my mind. It’s an amazing book that did a lot for the lgbt community and representation for the lgbt community. Anyway I won’t give you the Wikipedia page of the book but It’s a great subject in queer history and even if you don’t talk about it it’s a great read.🏳️‍🌈

[@pestopastapepperoni]

I think you should do a Larry Stylison “are they gay?” i mean there’s lots of material there

[@frankieanderson182]

thank you for making these videos i love them

[@RaySantos31081956]

👍😄🌈💋❤🌍💕👬👭👫🌻🎼Sou livre quando você também é..UNIDADE NA DIVERDIDADE.

[@aquathemystic2299]

CAN YOU DO ARE THEY GAY VENOM AND EDDIE??? I JUST SAW VENOM AND BOY OF BOY YOULL HAVE FUN WITH THIS ONE

[@ashleyjones9788]

Asmrtheygay should be your new channel name put that on a T-shirt. Also we gotta get you on the podcast soon lmao

[@erosheartache2398]

Are they Gay? Nygmobblepot, Pretty PLEEEASE!! Your videos are FANTASTIC! thank you for all the hard work!

[@theeclassyfratboiii5495]

You have the best content, thanks for that. As a recent Bisexual convert to the Homosexual Agenda, this is very informative and needed😉😊

[@mylove0155]

Thank you thank you thank you for bringing up Sylvia Rivera ❤🌼

[@user-hq8hd1qh8u]

Please do venom and eddie. Theres so many bromance in there.

[@Stig007]

The village people compiled of or consisting of mostly gay men . Not compromised … I was over here freaking out thinking that they hurt us in our journey.

[@nseruame4318]

Please review ADORA and CATRA from SHERA

[@naomi-art-stuff]

man i really miss these videos.

[@tswizzle2020]

i love these videos so much! also the music is this one Slaps

[@ripleyjlawman.3162]

Huh, nice lesson.

[@christopherterrazas6424]

It’s BS that Queer History doesn’t get views, yet again when I wasn’t out I never liked searching about Gay History and shit. I encourage you all to educate yourself about our people’s history

[@chantlmcclary6419]

Wow that person lost lost everything for liberation omg such a powerful speech 😩💘😊

[@Old-USRefugee]

Stonewall was in 1969 The Comptons Riot in San Francisco was in 1966 ,kzbin.info/www/bejne/fV66coaNbsmFeLc by the time Stonewall took place, Gay Lib was already well established in San Francisco. I know, I lived through that time in San Francisco!

[@jasminezehl9076]

Love this series! Im using your videos as a guideline to write my research paper. Do you happen to have a list of sources that you used in the making of this video?

[@hmmmok1924]

Can you make a are they gay? : House and Wilson. Soooo much subtext there

[@imjustanormalchannel5401]

Can I get a Dretriot Become human Are The Gay Please? 🤣

[@maiju-wh9tw]

Can you do Are they gay video about Larry Stylinson

[@katherinepetrin5707]

you could do adora and catra from the she-ra reboot it's a good show i highly recommend it :))

[@danielcarpioguzman4161]

Hey do a “Are they gay?” Video about Evan and Seth from Supercool pls :(

[@dannyblanco8544]

I STAN SYLVIA SO MUCHHHHHHHHHH

[@battyangel]

Thank you for making these videos - they're awesome \o/

[@samcat2295]

Hey that video you shown, are they still alive?? I’d love to know more about them!

[@Fungusvansant]

Brilliant job with the video I love these sm!! Btw there’s this pretty recent film made about Tom of Finland, you should check it out if you like!

[@elsagillsten]

7:12 WHAT!? I didn’t know that! It is moments like this I feel a little nationalistic 🇸🇪

[@mayapivoda7977]

That's a really interesting video! Do you (or does anyone) have links to source material?

[@mercyblake7550]

can you do Superbat please ?

[@confettiitsaparade7845]

Hey I love your channel! big fan! And can I beg for an episode of Aretheygay? Markus X Simon from detroit become human, I beg, but serious big fan ekkk!

[@luciadn4848]

Ooof I gotta ketchup on these

[@gandalfstormjoe3717]

Employment Discrimination based on sexuality and/or gender identity was just made unconstitutional and therefore illegal, another step in the right direction for our community.

[@Drawingmoony]

Are they Gay? With Aragorn and Legolas please😍

[@gwyneth6335]

5:45...Rita Mae Brown... a queen

[@petelarose998]

Liberation for ALL!!!!!!

[@moonbook12]

Yay this series is the best:)

[@Thisisfifty]

@4.12 I believe the word you are looking for is "comprised". And Village People members were straight.

[@sharonsanders7994]

do one on rarity and applejack

[@ryeliths]

do an are they gay with albus dumbledore and gellert grindelwald lmao

[@kibbyken]

Great work thank ya

[@abirdonacreek8705]

Yay, an upload💜💜

[@picklebananaeggplant]

FYI cross dressing laws were called masquerade laws

[@Joshsamet]

Hey you went to my school Eldo represent

[@halcyonclaire7179]

you should do a garashir video

[@sugarwaterenthusiast1309]

I swear, everytime I finish watching a video from this channel, I get a little bit gayer, and I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing...

[@sodaspider4997]

good, definitely good.

[@sedecim]

Well done young blood!

[@reioflightasmr2699]

I appreciate your videos and the history they attempt to teach, but I can't help but notice they fall victim to the same erasure and minimalization of the contributions of bisexual activists. You mentioned the Kinsey report but failed to mention that Kinsey was a bisexual. You credit Rodwell with the conception AND organization of the first Pride March when it was Brenda Howard, a grassroots organizer and bisexual woman, who is literally known as the "Mother of Pride". I understand that it is difficult to find information about bisexual contributions to LGBTQIA history because so many of the books and media written exclude them or change them to simply gay/lesbian but it is vitally important that we dig deeper into these stories and make sure we are not inadvertantly contributing to the erasure and suppression of those in our community. BiNetUSA is an excellent resource for bi history and you can always reach out to me through the group I run, Seattle Bisexual+. I have been an activist for many years and my work is largely focused around education and teaching of LGBTQIA+ history. Thank you for these videos they are an excellent start to changing how our community remembers it's heroes.

[@LibertarianLeninistRants]

do you edit the audio with audacity? I might know some ways to fix these sounds even if you don't have a pop filter

[@parallel4]

An upload!

[@rickodean6775]

Your videos are amazing!!!!!

[@rikkeveland]

Are Cordelia Good and Misty Day gay From american horror story: coven and apocalypse

[@ApplePi3.1415]

Why does homophobia exist? Without homophobia we wouldn’t have lgbt. And without lgbt we wouldnt have to use labels. We could just call it love. I want that so bad.

[@emmamcchug4783]

I don’t know if you take requests but Gotham’s Edward and Oswald are pretty gay but not canon.

[@cilantrolime]

I fucking read the thumbnail as "gay libertarian." I thought it was a video essay about some random gay dude in history who was a libertarian.

[@sylvchuisnotactive4529]

You need to do Eddsworld Tom and tord, and maybe Edd and matt as well. Don't have too, just a suggestion.

[@ladydruyear]

Have you seen the movie Velvet Goldmine?

[@patrici4batew0man]

hey! can you do an Are They Gay? With eddie and Venom? I mean, technically Venom is a parasite but alos, their ship is canon so... iDK, I just wanted to recommend u that

[@reecemelon5821]

PLEASE do mista x giorno are they gay!! (jojo's bizarre adventure)

[@toontrooper4103]

1:36 yo what is that symbol

[@EllieIsOnYoutube]

Great job on this, but at 3:46 you mention 'churches' but instead flash up a picture of a synagogue, a Jewish place of worship. I would really appreciate if for the future you could be more inclusive to the non-Christians among us and use 'places of worship' or some other catch-all term, especially if you're going to accompany the use of 'church' with a very Jewish image - that's just anachronistic.

[@lp4069]

YES 💜💜💜💜