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40 Years of Pride

By Queerty Staff March 25, 2009 at 5:03am · 10 comments

How do you round up 40 years of gay rights milestones? In a campy music video, of course. From the Pride at 40 CD, a montage-rap of life since Stonewall.

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10 Comments

  • mark Segal

    Wow, our history to a disco beat

    March 25, 2009 at 7:03am
  • vernonvanderbilt

    Absolutely wonderful, like a queered-up “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” Loved the video as well. I just wish the singers were a little less mush-mouthed. I couldn’t understand a lot of the lyrics.

    March 25, 2009 at 7:03am
  • Alan

    @vernonvanderbilt:

    I totally agree!

    March 25, 2009 at 8:03am
  • Anthony in Nashville

    Where can I get more info on that cd?

    March 25, 2009 at 9:03am
  • rogue dandelion

    how adorable, like my lgbt history class in 5 minutes.

    March 25, 2009 at 9:03am
  • Tomas

    I cannot deny this video’s educational component and innovation in creating a comprehensive multimedia articulation of Queer history. However, the video offended me. While watching the 5-and-a-half minute video, I counted no more than a handful of images of people of color, or representational suggestions that people of color contributed to LGBTQ rights and history. To provide a list of key players and events would be beyond the point. This is not an issue of being overly sensitive, or P.C. This video artistically writes out the presence of people of color from our collective Queer consciousness and written history. So the question that is thus raised is: Does Queer media narratives (make effort to) reflect the multicultural reality of our symbolic community? Certainly, this reflects the tensions within the community. What we have above is a white rainbow, absolved of the complex and rich history of Queerness in the U.S. As much as I would like to enjoy this clip as a danceable and informative tool, the blatant dismissal of diversity is too disconcerting.

    March 25, 2009 at 10:03am
  • Brianna

    @Tomas:

    Yeah…a white, male rainbow. There was some lesbian imagery sprinkled throughout, but it was underwhelming. Have lesbians really contributed that little to the gay rights movement? There’s some imagery of some women dancing and protesting, Daughters of Bilitis, Ellen, Etheridge, The L Word? Is that all?

    Otherwise, it was great.

    March 25, 2009 at 1:03pm
  • YeaYea

    The video was silly.

    Also only white people are gay with the exceptions of 2 tokens.

    March 26, 2009 at 3:03am
  • Jon Gilbert Leavitt

    Thank you all for the comments and feedback. The GLBTQ community is everything and everywhere – black, white, brown, yellow, English speaking, Spanish speaking, Thai speaking, deaf…however it IS difficult to get it all into a 5 minute song/video about gay history. The truth of the matter is, the majority of people who spearheaded the gay rights movement and cause in the beginning through recent times were North American and mainly white. The song references the major timeline of events – and does mention women and people of color, however the video may not encapture them all.
    (In order, the references of non-male and/or non-white include Harlem Nights [referencing Gladys Bentley, et. al.], The Well of Loneliness [Radcylffe Hall], Daughters of Bilitis, ‘Giovanni’s Room [James Baldwin], Lilith Fair, Mary Cheney, John Amaechi and our new president.)
    For the pride parades footage at the end, none of them are from the US (Israel, Denmark, Canada, Thailand, Norway) and the pictures include an African-American and the rainbow hair of an Hispanic man- ok, you can’t see his face, but I took the picture myself.
    It wasn’t an editing choice to make it seem overly white, it’s just the way the movement has been up until only the last twenty years or so; like the feminist movement, hippie movement and other ground breaking groups (in the US), many of the movers and shakers were white – and mostly middle- and upper class, since they were only fighting one struggle. African-Americans, Hispanics, Asians…were battling their own struggle against racism in a racist country (USA) to begin with.
    I can guarantee, if there’s a “Pride 2019,” the faces will change and the diversity will be more apparent. And, if things go the way they seem, as decades pass, the image of bikini-clad go-go boys and drag queens as the image of what most straight society sees us as will change as well.
    In any case, it’s an educational tool…to get more people to realize that Harry Hay, Gladys Bentley or James Baldwin mean more to the GLBTQ community as Madonna or Judy Garland. Without them, we wouldn’t be where we are today.

    Thanks again and all the best in pride,
    Jon

    March 27, 2009 at 2:03pm
  • Tomas

    That simply isn’t true, and should not be disseminated as any type of truth.

    Bayard Rustin
    Barbara Jordan
    Audre Lorde
    Sylvia Rivera
    Marsha P. Johnson
    Keith Boykin
    Rupaul
    Cherrie Moraga
    Gloria Anzaldua
    Archbisop Carl Bean
    Nicole Murray-Ramirez
    Coretta Scott King
    Barbara Smith
    Helen Zia
    The Voguing Ball subculture
    Alice Walker
    The Blank Panthers (specifically Huey Newton)
    The Lavendar Panthers

    just off the top of my head…And there are so many more examples of the diverse activism within the Queer community (And for that matter,the Feminist movement!)

    April 1, 2009 at 5:04am

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