国立アメリカ歴史博物館のインスタグラム(amhistorymuseum) - 6月26日 20時12分

What do you wear to a protest?
Barbara Gittings wore this dress while protesting at the Liberty and Independence Hall in Philadelphia. She and others marched to bring attention to the lack of basic Constitutional rights and protections for LGBTQ+ people, including the federal government’s ban on hiring gay and lesbian people. Women participating in the protest were asked to wear dresses so they looked “employable.” In the 1950s, government leadership, including Senator Joseph McCarthy, announced that there were scores of closeted LGBTQ+ people who worked for the government—and that they were a threat, particularly because they were more susceptible to blackmail.
The result? Government offices fired hundreds of employees based on their sexuality. In April of 1953, President Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10450 which barred lesbian and gay people from working for the federal government. Gittings both participated in and helped lead protests against the federal government in the 1950s and 1960s.
Protesting the federal government was just one part of Gittings’ lifelong work as an advocate for LGBTQ+ rights. In the 1950s, she organized the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis, a lesbian rights advocacy group, and edited their magazine, The Ladder. In the 1970s, she worked with the American Psychiatric Association to stop classifying homosexuality as a mental illness. She also worked with libraries to get positive LGBTQ+ materials on the shelves.
#LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #Pride #SmithsonianPride #Stonewall50 #LavendarScare #1950s #AmericanHistory #LGBTQHistory #WomensHistory #BecauseOfHerStory #CostumeHistory #VintageClothing #PoliticalHistory #CivicEngagement #ProtestHistory [📷: New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division, Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen Gay History Papers and Photographs]

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hilaryennis The Smithsonian seriously has a random dress and their collection because a lady wore it to a protest? That's important??? That she happened to be wearing this random, unsymbolic dress? Oooooh it's because gays are involved! They probably have warehouses of junk like this. This is a paper napkin used at a McDonald's by a man who might have liked other men! And here is a toothbrush from another one. ? Would you like the jeans I wore to a pro second amendment protest? I doubt it. ? Talk about bending to ridiculous social justice warriors. They say they want these people to be treated equally but really that means they want them to be put on a pedestal and have every company fly rainbow flags and even the Smithsonian to have a bunch of random stuff that doesn't matter just because a lady who liked gays happened to wear it one day. ?

jtmeyerfl Everything in this country is a cause. What I see is that, causes lose effectiveness, put targets on peoples' backs, and then lead to conflict. The "in" thing now is to be pro gay and to celebrate gays no matter what. I have already seen a rise in gay related hate crimes for it; case and point. More important is the fact your right end where my begin. What keeps balance/harmony is respect towards one another. Perhaps we should begin a movement for awareness of these teaditional values which always seem to be "under attack"!!!!?????

nancyl.hoffmann Hmmm. J Edgar Hoover was a real flamer. And I think most people in DC knew that. No wonder he was so paranoid! In 1968 the FBI tapped my phone bc I had long hair, worked in advertising, and had lots of photographer friends (Chicago in 1968 was a literal war zone). What a vicious hypocrite Hoover was! Thought those days were over. But now Trump attacks gays and trannies in the military. Some men are sooo easily threatened!

victoria_o51 It’s so nuts to me that the same orgs that were firing people 60-70 years ago are now filled with pride posters. It’s so illustrative of how much can change in a generation or two.

treatwitch I love that you have the dress from a protest , especially as how folks dressed was part of the protest . I love this whole series .

margi83301 Thank you for posting this! And for such a detailed history. What an important woman she was in American history!

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