I was a member of the Society for Individual Rights, a pre-Stonewall organization in San Francisco. The SIR Center had meetings, dances, and other events in their second floor location on S 6th Street. They also published Vector, a magazine with a gay model on the cover and in the center spread.
I got two of my first jobs in San Francisco through SIR. Since I was rejected by Selective Service, it was very difficult to find a job, if you were an out Gay man.
LittleBilly_169 ancap you can’t create a definition saying what is and isn’t necessary. im just saying its sad we never even touch the topic of gay rights in school.
@LittleBilly_169 ancap What are you talking about? LGBTQ+ History Month is in October in the States and Canada and February in the UK. Besides that, you're telling me that it can't be focused on during history class or another social science class? It's history. People were treated like shit and/or killed (still are).www.cnn.com/2018/07/14/asia/indonesia-banda-aceh-public-flogging-intl/index.html thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/427247-iran-publicly-hangs-man-found-guilty-of-homosexuality-charges The point of history is for people to learn from it and not repeat.
i’m so proud.... i don’t even know why but i’m legit a proud mom right now. thank you for covering this history it is incredibly interesting and shines a light on the events that many people have never heard of.
Hey Alex (and Brian!) my Spanish teacher and I have been arguing for almost a week now over the way Jk Rowling made Dumbldor gay after releasing the books. I said it’s a grab for “wokeness” points but he says it’s subtextual and doesn’t need to be explicitly stated to be considered representation. I tried to argue that “non explicit representation” is often just queerbait but he said (and I quote) “your generation wants everything to be explicate and out but not everyone is out. Just because your undeveloped teenage mind- “ (and that’s where he got cut off by everyone’s ooohhhhhs.) I just think you can’t say you are an ally if you waited until there was no chance of financial or other backlash to claim a character is gay. The books were already released. Also he tried to argue that there was no reason for them to mention anyone’s sexuality but when I responded then why are all the other characters explicitly in only heterosexual relationships he didn’t have a response other than they ~could~ be bi. (Which brings me back to queerbait and how queer interpretations are dismissed. I’m sure if I tried to argue Drarry he dismiss it just as he would if I argued dumbldor is gay if she hadn’t made that statement.) anyway I was wondering if I could get your opinion on the whole “Dumbldor is gay” thing especially with the new movies director saying he’s not going to make Dumbldor “explicitly gay”. (Also anyone else that read this and has an opinion.) ((Sorry this is so long. I really like debating and I wrote a four page argument against him on Monday instead of studying for math.))
JK Rowling published Harry Potter years ago though, when there was absolutely no LGBTQ representation in children's books. There's no way it could've been published if she'd made him explicitly gay.
@@Sylvyi Good point. But she was so famous and powerful already. Maybe she could've pushed for if she actually wanted to. Anyway, I for one am mostly disgruntled by her hogging credit for representation she did not show in her work itself, and the refusal of the franchise to really get into the romantic aspect of the history between Dumbledore and Grindle-whatever, even when now be an apt opportunity to do so.
Thanks for all your hard work with these vids. I'll definitely be sharing. Some of the most down to earth and well researched essays on queer history I've seen on this platform. Thank you 💜
When I first got to NYC in 75 I was 18 and went to some meetings of the Gay Activists Alliance as it was still around. Thank you for promoting the remembrance of our LGBTQ history! I believe that it is very important that it doesn't get lost as those of us who lived it get older and pass. People think that everything is online these days, but this type of info is only there if people put it there! I was a teen in Syracuse and was out in the bars since 15-16. I just tried to look up some of that history and it was pretty sparse!
Great video! Could you please do something about the subtitles, I’ve worked on finnish subtitles for your subtext video, and there’s no option to add your own subtitles, please please please let me translate it and do something about this! Another thing, could you do Richie and Eddie from it for the next are hey gay? Love you 💕
I remember watching a video it was so beautiful to see homosexual men know they were men, now they believe they can be a woman. I never seen a lion try to be a penguin.
Well I've heard that the difference between "transsexual" & "transvestite" would equate roughly to "truscum"/"transmedicalist" & "tucute"/"transgender" today. However cross dressers were also known as "transvestites" since so much of the early movement depended on perception/attribution & actions that invoke those. So to that degree that is true.
Video idea suggestion: I don’t know how familiar you are with Greek mythology, but I’ve been taking a class in it in Uni and would love you do a video on Achilles and Patroclus! I think they’re gay af, but many historians think they’re straight. Almost all the OG ppl who wrote the myths reference Achilles and Patroclus as lovers but again, historians are like “just dude being bros”
Can you do a video on lgbt progress on television. There’s an article floating around where the CW is hailed for its growth in lgbt representation. Which is honestly debatable, seeing as they’re upping the quantity of gays but not the quality of the gays
Will you please do an “are they gay” for killua and gon from hunter x hunter? It would be SUCH A GOOD VIDEO. Like there’s this one part at the end of the greed island arc where biscy asks what gon will do when he finds his father ging, and gon says that that he’s going to introduce gon to killua because he’s his “best friend” and killua starts blushing and it’s adorable.
Hey sorry I’m two weeks late to posting this but I just wanted to suggest that you talk about Nancy Garden and her work- Annie on my mind. It’s an amazing book that did a lot for the lgbt community and representation for the lgbt community. Anyway I won’t give you the Wikipedia page of the book but It’s a great subject in queer history and even if you don’t talk about it it’s a great read.🏳️🌈
It’s BS that Queer History doesn’t get views, yet again when I wasn’t out I never liked searching about Gay History and shit. I encourage you all to educate yourself about our people’s history
The village people compiled of or consisting of mostly gay men . Not compromised … I was over here freaking out thinking that they hurt us in our journey.
Why does homophobia exist? Without homophobia we wouldn’t have lgbt. And without lgbt we wouldnt have to use labels. We could just call it love. I want that so bad.
Employment Discrimination based on sexuality and/or gender identity was just made unconstitutional and therefore illegal, another step in the right direction for our community.
Love this series! Im using your videos as a guideline to write my research paper. Do you happen to have a list of sources that you used in the making of this video?
Stonewall was in 1969 The Comptons Riot in San Francisco was in 1966 ,th-cam.com/video/G-WASW9dRBU/w-d-xo.html by the time Stonewall took place, Gay Lib was already well established in San Francisco. I know, I lived through that time in San Francisco!
Great job on this, but at 3:46 you mention 'churches' but instead flash up a picture of a synagogue, a Jewish place of worship. I would really appreciate if for the future you could be more inclusive to the non-Christians among us and use 'places of worship' or some other catch-all term, especially if you're going to accompany the use of 'church' with a very Jewish image - that's just anachronistic.
hey! can you do an Are They Gay? With eddie and Venom? I mean, technically Venom is a parasite but alos, their ship is canon so... iDK, I just wanted to recommend u that
Hey I love your channel! big fan! And can I beg for an episode of Aretheygay? Markus X Simon from detroit become human, I beg, but serious big fan ekkk!
I appreciate your videos and the history they attempt to teach, but I can't help but notice they fall victim to the same erasure and minimalization of the contributions of bisexual activists. You mentioned the Kinsey report but failed to mention that Kinsey was a bisexual. You credit Rodwell with the conception AND organization of the first Pride March when it was Brenda Howard, a grassroots organizer and bisexual woman, who is literally known as the "Mother of Pride". I understand that it is difficult to find information about bisexual contributions to LGBTQIA history because so many of the books and media written exclude them or change them to simply gay/lesbian but it is vitally important that we dig deeper into these stories and make sure we are not inadvertantly contributing to the erasure and suppression of those in our community. BiNetUSA is an excellent resource for bi history and you can always reach out to me through the group I run, Seattle Bisexual+. I have been an activist for many years and my work is largely focused around education and teaching of LGBTQIA+ history. Thank you for these videos they are an excellent start to changing how our community remembers it's heroes.
Imagine how secure you have to be about your sexuality to be the one straight man in the Village People.
I swear the second I heard Sylvia Rivera talk I started crying
u and me both friend
jiurn I would have too if I felt emotions.
Same
When it zoomed into her fist, I began to cry
When I read jiurn's initial comment, I laughed. Then I heard Silvia Rivera talk. I cried.
I would totally buy some of your merch but i am indeed a broke gay
I am a broke gay as well.
I was a member of the Society for Individual Rights, a pre-Stonewall organization in San Francisco. The SIR Center had meetings, dances, and other events in their second floor location on S 6th Street. They also published Vector, a magazine with a gay model on the cover and in the center spread.
I got two of my first jobs in San Francisco through SIR. Since I was rejected by Selective Service, it was very difficult to find a job, if you were an out Gay man.
your videos are so important to me. sad we never learn about any of this in school :/
LittleBilly_169 ancap you can’t create a definition saying what is and isn’t necessary. im just saying its sad we never even touch the topic of gay rights in school.
@LittleBilly_169 ancap What are you talking about? LGBTQ+ History Month is in October in the States and Canada and February in the UK. Besides that, you're telling me that it can't be focused on during history class or another social science class? It's history. People were treated like shit and/or killed (still are).www.cnn.com/2018/07/14/asia/indonesia-banda-aceh-public-flogging-intl/index.html thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/427247-iran-publicly-hangs-man-found-guilty-of-homosexuality-charges
The point of history is for people to learn from it and not repeat.
Not tolerating terfs/fighting their toxic ideas and protecting trans people is gay culture.
Lesbians dont do dick, and you will not trans our butch historical figures
Fr, we need to stand up for those in need
i’m so proud.... i don’t even know why but i’m legit a proud mom right now. thank you for covering this history it is incredibly interesting and shines a light on the events that many people have never heard of.
"queer history doesn't get views" PPFFFFFFFTT
Half of the younger gay generation, could care less about it unfortunately.
I’d never heard of Sylvia and I’m surprised that she was basically erased from history and I believe she was the trans equivalent of Rosa parks
Hey Alex (and Brian!) my Spanish teacher and I have been arguing for almost a week now over the way Jk Rowling made Dumbldor gay after releasing the books. I said it’s a grab for “wokeness” points but he says it’s subtextual and doesn’t need to be explicitly stated to be considered representation. I tried to argue that “non explicit representation” is often just queerbait but he said (and I quote) “your generation wants everything to be explicate and out but not everyone is out. Just because your undeveloped teenage mind- “ (and that’s where he got cut off by everyone’s ooohhhhhs.) I just think you can’t say you are an ally if you waited until there was no chance of financial or other backlash to claim a character is gay. The books were already released. Also he tried to argue that there was no reason for them to mention anyone’s sexuality but when I responded then why are all the other characters explicitly in only heterosexual relationships he didn’t have a response other than they ~could~ be bi. (Which brings me back to queerbait and how queer interpretations are dismissed. I’m sure if I tried to argue Drarry he dismiss it just as he would if I argued dumbldor is gay if she hadn’t made that statement.) anyway I was wondering if I could get your opinion on the whole “Dumbldor is gay” thing especially with the new movies director saying he’s not going to make Dumbldor “explicitly gay”.
(Also anyone else that read this and has an opinion.)
((Sorry this is so long. I really like debating and I wrote a four page argument against him on Monday instead of studying for math.))
yea... harry potter is EXTREMELY heterocentric
I agree with you. If it isn't visible it isn't really representation.
OP, I love your comment and agree with all your points.
JK Rowling published Harry Potter years ago though, when there was absolutely no LGBTQ representation in children's books. There's no way it could've been published if she'd made him explicitly gay.
@@Sylvyi Good point. But she was so famous and powerful already. Maybe she could've pushed for if she actually wanted to. Anyway, I for one am mostly disgruntled by her hogging credit for representation she did not show in her work itself, and the refusal of the franchise to really get into the romantic aspect of the history between Dumbledore and Grindle-whatever, even when now be an apt opportunity to do so.
Thanks for all your hard work with these vids. I'll definitely be sharing. Some of the most down to earth and well researched essays on queer history I've seen on this platform. Thank you 💜
I love your queer history videos
I’m black, gay and PROUD and I love 💗 💖 💕 my LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈 family across the Globe
💚💚💚💚🌈
It's been months but it was so worth it
Yessss! I'm so glad you're continuing with this series! It's so hecking good!
I love this series so much! Thank you for taking the time to teach us what school won't!
yeet ive missed these
Be glad. It wasnt enjoyable
When I first got to NYC in 75 I was 18 and went to some meetings of the Gay Activists Alliance as it was still around. Thank you for promoting the remembrance of our LGBTQ history! I believe that it is very important that it doesn't get lost as those of us who lived it get older and pass. People think that everything is online these days, but this type of info is only there if people put it there! I was a teen in Syracuse and was out in the bars since 15-16. I just tried to look up some of that history and it was pretty sparse!
Great video! Could you please do something about the subtitles, I’ve worked on finnish subtitles for your subtext video, and there’s no option to add your own subtitles, please please please let me translate it and do something about this! Another thing, could you do Richie and Eddie from it for the next are hey gay? Love you 💕
I watched all 7 episodes of 'Queer History' and must say -- well done!!
Sylvia Rivera is such an icon
wait you're telling me the people who sing ymca were gay?
...i knew it
Listen to the lyrics!
Thank you sensei
Thank you ! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁👌👌💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹✌✌
Can you do Alex and Brian from AreTheyGay?
This was such a great video. Thanks for spreading this important knowledge.
I support all these moments of liberation. Peter
Great video! I'm curious to know where you acquired the historic photographs? Thanks!
I remember watching a video it was so beautiful to see homosexual men know they were men, now they believe they can be a woman. I never seen a lion try to be a penguin.
Well I've heard that the difference between "transsexual" & "transvestite" would equate roughly to "truscum"/"transmedicalist" & "tucute"/"transgender" today. However cross dressers were also known as "transvestites" since so much of the early movement depended on perception/attribution & actions that invoke those. So to that degree that is true.
Video idea suggestion:
I don’t know how familiar you are with Greek mythology, but I’ve been taking a class in it in Uni and would love you do a video on Achilles and Patroclus!
I think they’re gay af, but many historians think they’re straight. Almost all the OG ppl who wrote the myths reference Achilles and Patroclus as lovers but again, historians are like “just dude being bros”
How about Jedtavius from Night at the museum. I know you usually only do TV shows and not movies but it would be cool to discuss
thank you for making these videos i love them
Can you do a video on lgbt progress on television. There’s an article floating around where the CW is hailed for its growth in lgbt representation. Which is honestly debatable, seeing as they’re upping the quantity of gays but not the quality of the gays
This channel is such a fucking blessing I just can’t say it enough
Will you please do an “are they gay” for killua and gon from hunter x hunter? It would be SUCH A GOOD VIDEO. Like there’s this one part at the end of the greed island arc where biscy asks what gon will do when he finds his father ging, and gon says that that he’s going to introduce gon to killua because he’s his “best friend” and killua starts blushing and it’s adorable.
Thank you thank you thank you for bringing up Sylvia Rivera ❤🌼
That “revolution now” moved my bones
👍😄🌈💋❤🌍💕👬👭👫🌻🎼Sou livre quando você também é..UNIDADE NA DIVERDIDADE.
i love these videos so much! also the music is this one Slaps
You have the best content, thanks for that. As a recent Bisexual convert to the Homosexual Agenda, this is very informative and needed😉😊
"DECADES" >"HISTORY" > "NEVER" > Used > or > Called it : LGBT - (+) - PRIDE -/etc./
Please review ADORA and CATRA from SHERA
Asmrtheygay should be your new channel name put that on a T-shirt. Also we gotta get you on the podcast soon lmao
CAN YOU DO ARE THEY GAY VENOM AND EDDIE??? I JUST SAW VENOM AND BOY OF BOY YOULL HAVE FUN WITH THIS ONE
I think you should do a Larry Stylison “are they gay?” i mean there’s lots of material there
Hey sorry I’m two weeks late to posting this but I just wanted to suggest that you talk about Nancy Garden and her work- Annie on my mind. It’s an amazing book that did a lot for the lgbt community and representation for the lgbt community. Anyway I won’t give you the Wikipedia page of the book
but It’s a great subject in queer history and even if you don’t talk about it it’s a great read.🏳️🌈
Please do venom and eddie. Theres so many bromance in there.
Thank you for making these videos - they're awesome \o/
It’s BS that Queer History doesn’t get views, yet again when I wasn’t out I never liked searching about Gay History and shit. I encourage you all to educate yourself about our people’s history
Yay, an upload💜💜
Are they Gay? Nygmobblepot, Pretty PLEEEASE!! Your videos are FANTASTIC! thank you for all the hard work!
Hey that video you shown, are they still alive?? I’d love to know more about them!
The village people compiled of or consisting of mostly gay men . Not compromised … I was over here freaking out thinking that they hurt us in our journey.
man i really miss these videos.
Yay this series is the best:)
Wow that person lost lost everything for liberation omg such a powerful speech 😩💘😊
Huh, nice lesson.
Great work thank ya
Why does homophobia exist? Without homophobia we wouldn’t have lgbt. And without lgbt we wouldnt have to use labels. We could just call it love. I want that so bad.
Can you do Are they gay video about Larry Stylinson
I STAN SYLVIA SO MUCHHHHHHHHHH
can you do Superbat please ?
Employment Discrimination based on sexuality and/or gender identity was just made unconstitutional and therefore illegal, another step in the right direction for our community.
Love this series! Im using your videos as a guideline to write my research paper. Do you happen to have a list of sources that you used in the making of this video?
5:45...Rita Mae Brown... a queen
Can you make a are they gay? : House and Wilson. Soooo much subtext there
That's a really interesting video! Do you (or does anyone) have links to source material?
1:36 yo what is that symbol
7:12 WHAT!? I didn’t know that! It is moments like this I feel a little nationalistic 🇸🇪
you could do adora and catra from the she-ra reboot it's a good show i highly recommend it :))
Your videos are amazing!!!!!
Stonewall was in 1969 The Comptons Riot in San Francisco was in 1966 ,th-cam.com/video/G-WASW9dRBU/w-d-xo.html by the time Stonewall took place, Gay Lib was already well established in San Francisco. I know, I lived through that time in San Francisco!
do you edit the audio with audacity?
I might know some ways to fix these sounds even if you don't have a pop filter
Great job on this, but at 3:46 you mention 'churches' but instead flash up a picture of a synagogue, a Jewish place of worship. I would really appreciate if for the future you could be more inclusive to the non-Christians among us and use 'places of worship' or some other catch-all term, especially if you're going to accompany the use of 'church' with a very Jewish image - that's just anachronistic.
Ooof I gotta ketchup on these
Liberation for ALL!!!!!!
Can I get a Dretriot Become human Are The Gay Please? 🤣
I swear, everytime I finish watching a video from this channel, I get a little bit gayer, and I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing...
good, definitely good.
An upload!
Are they Gay? With Aragorn and Legolas please😍
Hey do a “Are they gay?” Video about Evan and Seth from Supercool pls :(
YES 💜💜💜💜
do one on rarity and applejack
Well done young blood!
you should do a garashir video
I fucking read the thumbnail as "gay libertarian." I thought it was a video essay about some random gay dude in history who was a libertarian.
@4.12 I believe the word you are looking for is "comprised".
And Village People members were straight.
Hey you went to my school Eldo represent
hey! can you do an Are They Gay? With eddie and Venom? I mean, technically Venom is a parasite but alos, their ship is canon so... iDK, I just wanted to recommend u that
Are Cordelia Good and Misty Day gay
From american horror story: coven and apocalypse
Hey I love your channel! big fan! And can I beg for an episode of Aretheygay? Markus X Simon from detroit become human, I beg,
but serious big fan ekkk!
Have you seen the movie Velvet Goldmine?
do an are they gay with albus dumbledore and gellert grindelwald lmao
FYI cross dressing laws were called masquerade laws
I appreciate your videos and the history they attempt to teach, but I can't help but notice they fall victim to the same erasure and minimalization of the contributions of bisexual activists. You mentioned the Kinsey report but failed to mention that Kinsey was a bisexual. You credit Rodwell with the conception AND organization of the first Pride March when it was Brenda Howard, a grassroots organizer and bisexual woman, who is literally known as the "Mother of Pride". I understand that it is difficult to find information about bisexual contributions to LGBTQIA history because so many of the books and media written exclude them or change them to simply gay/lesbian but it is vitally important that we dig deeper into these stories and make sure we are not inadvertantly contributing to the erasure and suppression of those in our community. BiNetUSA is an excellent resource for bi history and you can always reach out to me through the group I run, Seattle Bisexual+. I have been an activist for many years and my work is largely focused around education and teaching of LGBTQIA+ history. Thank you for these videos they are an excellent start to changing how our community remembers it's heroes.
You need to do Eddsworld Tom and tord, and maybe Edd and matt as well.
Don't have too, just a suggestion.
Brilliant job with the video I love these sm!! Btw there’s this pretty recent film made about Tom of Finland, you should check it out if you like!
Can you do a are they gay of katsuki bakugou and izuku midoriya from my hero acadamia #bakudeku
I don’t know if you take requests but Gotham’s Edward and Oswald are pretty gay but not canon.