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1209: 119:, was also arrested. Demonstrations took place outside the establishment over the next five days with 1500 flyers being distributed by the Janus Society and its supporters. Three people staged a second sit-in on May 2, 1965. The police were again called, but refused to make arrests this time. The Janus Society said the protests were successful in preventing further arrests and the action was deemed “the first sit-in of its kind in the history of the United States” by 1152: 109:
On April 25, 1965 over 150 people were denied service at Dewey's, a local coffee shop and diner in Philadelphia. Those denied service were variously described at the time as “homosexuals,” “masculine women,” “feminine men,” and “persons wearing non-conformist clothing.” Three teenagers (reported by
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to be two males and one female) staged a sit-in that day. After restaurant managers contacted police, the three were arrested. In the process of offering legal support for the teens, local activist and president of the Janus Society,
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of beginnings, endings, and doorways. The organization focused on a policy of militant respectability, a strategy demanding respect by showing the public gay individuals conforming to hetero-normative standards of dress at protests.
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magazine, one of the earliest gay publications in the United States and the one most widely circulated in the 1960s, and for its role in organizing many of the nation's
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that appeared in every edition: "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears the beat of a different drummer."
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chapter in New York. ECHO was meant to facilitate cooperation between homophile organizations and outside administrations.
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The Janus Society grew out of lesbian and gay activists meeting regularly, beginning in 1961, in hopes of forming a
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due to their increasing national visibility. Mae Polakoff was the group’s first president (from 1962 to 1964).
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chapter. The group was not officially recognized as such a chapter, however, and so instead named itself the
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The Other Side of Silence – Men's Lives and Gay Identities: A Twentieth-Century History
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This article is about the early homophile organization. For the BDSM club, see
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Encyclopedia of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history in America
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Unspeakable: The Rise of the Gay and Lesbian Press in America
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after Polak was arrested on federal obscenity charges.
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Index

Society of Janus
homophile
Philadelphia
Drum
earliest LGBT rights demonstrations
Roman
God
Janus
Mattachine Society
East Coast Homophile Organizations
Mattachine Society
Daughters of Bilitis
Mattachine Society
Dr. Franklin E. Kameny
Clark Polak
Drum
Clark Polak
Stonewall Riots
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
Drum
Philadelphia
Clark Polak
Henry David Thoreau
Walden



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