Activists are still pursuing their own investigations 15 years later. Community members believe that the investigation was grossly mishandled or included a cover-up. Nizah Morris, a Black trans woman, is picked up by a police officer at 13th and Walnut and offered a “courtesy ride.” She is found bleeding from her forehead at 16th and Walnut and dies two days later as a result of traumatic blows to her head. A witness tells City Paper, “All of a sudden the entire mood changed from political protest to cops against fags and dykes. SeptemPolice attack ACT UP activists carrying a coffin across Broad Street to protest government neglect of HIV/AIDS amid a devastating death toll. Marchers dress freely, sing and chant, rejecting the respectability politics of Reminder Day. June 1972 - In Philly’s first gay pride demonstration, 10,000 people march from Rittenhouse Square to Independence Hall. September 1970 - Kiyoshi Kuromiya speaks at the Revolutionary People’s Constitutional Convention, organized nationally by the Black Panthers and held in Philadelphia, with a list of demands from the “Male Homosexual Workshop” to be addressed by radical Left movements. JThe first annual Reminder Day picket at Independence Hall.ġ969 - Gay Liberation Front forms in Philadelphia, with a significant proportion of African-American, Latinx, and Asian members.
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After a second sit-in a few days later, management agrees to end its discrimination. Bennet, visit for purchases and comissions**ġ954 - Cops from Frank Rizzo’s precinct raid three clubs and arrest “female impersonators.” Continuing well into the 1970s, countless LGBTQ people are arrested, beaten and/or sexually assaulted by police when they raid queer bars.įebruary 1959 - Captain Rizzo and cops raid Humoresque Coffeeshop, 2036 Sansom, and arrest the owner and 34 patrons (“men with beards,” “women in tights”).ġ962 - Rizzo, now Philadelphia Police Commissioner, instructs bar owners not to serve “drag queens,” under penalty of losing their liquor license.ĪpDewey’s restaurant near Rittenhouse Square refuses to serve groups of “homosexuals and persons wearing non-conformist clothing.” Inspired by the Civil Rights movement, more than 150 Black, white, transgender, lesbian and gay people stage a sit-in, and three teenagers are arrested.
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