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On June 25, join us at Barnes & Noble in NYC's Union Square for a panel on the history of the #LGBTQ movement and the Stonewall uprising, including #TheBookofPride's Mason Funk! Check out the link in our bio for more info. . #OUTWORDS #QueerHistory #LGBT #PrideMonth #Stonewall50
From #TheBookOfPride’s Mason Funk: .
On pioneering LGBTQ allyship: .
As a bisexual, trans, and Two-Spirit activist who helped organize against the 1978 Briggs Initiative that would have banned gays and lesbians from teaching in California public schools, Marcus Arana states: . “The Briggs Initiative was the place where I found a greater need for a concerted queer civil rights movement. I’d come out of the anti-war movement. I’d done a lot of protesting in the streets. But that was a point where I saw the efficacy of organizing, of grassroots organizing, of working with allies within a system, of creating equal pressures both within a system and outside the system to create change.” . This #PrideMonth, learn more about Marcus’ blueprint for organizing in #TheBookOfPride. . #OUTWORDS #QueerHistory
For many years, coming out at the schools where Betsy Parsons taught seemed like an impossibility until a former student, now an out lesbian in college, came clean about the difficult time she had in high school: .
As the manager of a Los Angeles gay bar called New Faces in the 1960s, Alexei Romanoff helped to organize a protest at the Black Cat—another local gay bar—that was raided by police on New Years Eve in 1966. Taking place more than two years before the 1969 Stonewall riots, many people regard this event as the true genesis of the modern gay rights movement: . “Years later, I met with Chief Bill Bratton of the Los Angeles Police Department. We were looking at the pictures from the demonstration. I said to him, ‘Do you see anybody smiling?’ He looked at them and he said, ‘No.’ I said, ‘They weren’t. They were scared as hell.’” . Learn more from Alexei in THE BOOK OF PRIDE! Click our bio link for more info.
Mason Funk shares a behind-the-scenes reflection on criminal defense attorney and trans activist, Mia Yamamoto: . “A few months after her OUTWORDS interview in April 2017, we invited Mia to say a few words at an OUTWORDS fundraiser. Mia got up and basically set the room on fire with her speech about the importance of recording LGBTQ history and defeating the forces that would like to relegate queer people to the margins of society—literal or figurative ‘camps’ like the one her parents were sent to during World War II.” . Be inspired by 75 LGBTQ heroes in THE BOOK OF PRIDE!
Ada Bello became a prominent LGBTQ civil rights activist in Philadelphia and helped to launch the city’s chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) in 1967. But in a time of rampant LGBTQ hostility, how was she successful at building momentum for LGBTQ Philadelphians? . “I would go to the bookstore and fold the DOB newsletter and put it inside books on the shelf, particularly the outrageous books they used to publish about the sickness of homosexuality. That was perfect. People who bought the book got the newsletter free of charge. I don’t know how much good that did, but it gave me a great deal of satisfaction.” . Learn more about Ada and 74 other LGBTQ heroes in The Book of Pride. Check out the link in our bio to get yours today!
THE BOOK OF PRIDE is out today – available wherever books, e-books, and audiobooks are sold! Check out the link in our bio. 🌈 . After five years in the making, OUTWORDS founder Mason Funk states: .
First copy!! Many thanks to all who made this possible and especially the 75 amazing people in this book. Pre-order now at theoutwordsarchive.org/bookofpride! #outwords #haveprideinhistory #lgbtq #queerhistory

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