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Queer spaces to check out in Philadelphia
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New Delhi, Jan 21 : In 1965, four years before the Stonewall Riots in New York ignited the worldwide modern gay rights movement, a group of protesters began an annual July 4th pride march in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
These annual reminders were demonstrations designed to remind the American people that many American citizens were denied the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness promised in the Declaration of Independence. What started at Independence Hall evolved into a civil rights movement and since then, Philadelphia has been a seat of progress and activism for the LGBTQ community.
people getting fired from their job, evicted from their apartment, denied health insurance. everything. city government was also absent and koch s administration was not talking about aids publicly. act up is born in 1987 emerging from the powerlessness that many affected by the disease are feeling. act up s original motto was also its formula. anger into action. our grief after a while became anger, and we took that anger and frustration, and we focused it. a key part of act up strategy is to use the media to spread its message. act up is very, very savvy. we had people like ann northrup who used to be diane sawyer s producer at cbs. we had bob rafske who did pr from corporate america, and from day one they told us how to talk to the media and how to get our message out. if the press didn t get a film camera there or didn t get a print photographer there, we started taking our own pictures
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