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Perry Brass said history will show that the Gay
Liberation Front “created the gay revolution.”
or gender identity.
“I would like to see a situation
where all the LGBT people who are
not in a middle class marriage are
taken care of, too,” Brass said. “I
want to see all of us are taken care
of. This necessity is international.”
Wakeham emphasized employment
and housing as two major
queer issues in light of LGBTQ
youth homelessness and broader
housing discrimination against
same-sex partners — especially
Jason Victor Serinus (left), is seen here with his husband, David.
LGBTQ seniors — as well as employment
discrimination.
“I hope there’s a national gay
rights movement not to be fi red
from your job or housing,” she
said.
But for a brief moment this
past Sunday, GLF members who
participated in the HOP march
huddled together at the northeast
corner of Madison Square Park
and acknowledged the progress
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they made and the advancements
that followed after they laid the
groundwork for future activists. To
this day, others are building on the
backs of their work.
“Stonewall was the spark that lit
the torch that was the Gay Liberation
Front, and from Gay Liberation
Front other groups came out,”
Brass said. “I fi rmly believe — and
history will show — that we created
the gay revolution.”
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folks would have been proud to see
everyone together again. But they
also seized the moment — a rare
one in which they all could gather
and remember the times they
changed the world for the better.
Shumsky described it as “like a
family reunion” and Wakeham said
it especially felt good to catch up
with the others because so much
time passed. It also held special
meaning for Serinus, now 74, after
he missed previous reunions.
“ It’s thrilling,” he said. “To see
so many of us here is wonderful.”
Fifty years after Stonewall and
49 years after the fi rst major LGBTQ
rights march, multiple members
admitted, however, that the
work is far from over. Indeed, the
legalization of same-sex marriage
in recent years represented a step
forward, but that was a step that
they believe was incremental —
especially considering that the
nation still does not have federal
LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections
and numerous nations
around the world still criminalize
people for their sexual orientation
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