Friday, Jan. 30, guest speaker, Professor Johnson, gave a powerpoint presentation on gay rights at The University of Tampa.
The presentation was held in the library at 4 p.m. Johnson discussed the underground movements of which the gay movement started.
‘The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States,’ published in 1983, discusses the gay rights movement between 1940-1970. In 1951, small underground gay political groups began to form.
Then in 1969, one of the largest gay political movements, Gay Pride, began taking hold that June.
The advertising and consuming of goods were being used as a gateway for the gay political movement.
Physique Magazine had about 1,000 total subscribers. 1945-1969, consuming networks of the first gay commercial market gave supporters of the gay movement the right to produce and consume goods before the revolution of the gay community movement.
‘Frank Kamney’s Attic’ was a well known gay and lesbian protect location in Washington, D.C. Kamney, was the founder of The Madison Society in Washington.
Bill Kelly, another gay rights supporter, grew up in a small town in Missouri in the 1950s.
He purchased a Physique Magazine as a gateway into the gay community. The importance of these magazines became a huge tool for the gay rights movement.
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