#barbaragittings

Gay rights pioneer Lilli Vincenz filmed the 1968 Reminder Day picket at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, on July 4, 1968. The Annual Reminders, starting in 1965, were some of the earliest #LGBTQ demonstrations in the United States.
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Activists #FrankKameny and #BarbaraGittings were among the activists who organized the actions, which were designed to remind Americans that LGBTQ people did not enjoy basic civil rights. Watch the entire seven-minute film “The Second Largest Minority” on @librarycongress website: bit.ly/reminder-day1968
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Listen to our episodes with Frank Kameny:
bit.ly/mgh-kameny
and Barbara Gittings:
bit.ly/mgh-gittings-lahusen1
bit.ly/mgh-gittings-lahusen (at Independence Hall)

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!! 

My first drawing of the month is dedicated to Barbara Gittings

Barbara Gittings, was among the most important figures in LGBT history. Before Stonewall, Gittings organized the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB), served as editor of DOB’s magazine, helped organize the first gay rights protests at the White House and the State Department, and organized the five Annual Reminders at Independence Hall from 1965 to 1969. After Stonewall, Gittings and Frank Kameny led the efforts that resulted in homosexuality being removed from the American Psychiatric Association’s list of mental disorders; she also helped form the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF, @thetaskforce). And, for forty-six years, she was an equal partner in a loving relationship with Kay Tobin, another of the founding parents of the LGBT movement. As the executive director of the NGLTF said at Gittings’ funeral: “What do we owe Barbara? Everything.”