Queens Liberation Front

Queens Liberation Front (QLF) wata ƙungiya ce ta homophile wadda ta fi mayar da hankali kan kare haƙƙin masu sa kayan jinsi na daban (transvestites) da kuma drag queens a birnin New York. An kafa QLF a shekarar 1969, kuma ta kasance mai aiki a shekarun 1970s. Tun daga shekarar 1971, sun fara wallafa mujallar Drag Queens: A Magazine About the Transvestite. Queens Liberation Front ta yi haɗin gwiwa da wasu ƙungiyoyin fafutukar haƙƙin LGBTQ da dama, ciki har da Gay Activists Alliance da Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries. 

 Kafawa 
An kafa Queens Liberation Front a matsayin Queens ta hannun Lee Brewster a shekarar 1969.: 83  A bikin ball na farko da ya shirya a watan Fabrairu 1969, Brewster ya bayyana shirinsa na kafa ƙungiyar, inda aka zaɓi ranar 31 ga Oktoba, 1969 (ranar Halloween, wadda take da matuƙar farin jini a cikin al’ummar drag) a matsayin ranar kafuwar ƙungiyar a hukumance.

An kafa kungiyar ne a wani bangare don adawa da raguwar drag queens zuwa bayan Maris a ranar farko ta Christopher Street Liberation Day a watan Yunin 1970. A cikin zanga-zangar, sarauniyar tituna daga STAR sun koma gaba kuma sun yi tafiya a gaban fareti ko ta yaya.Rivera, Sylvia, "Queens In Exile, The Forgotten Ones" in Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries: Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle. Untorelli Press, 2013.

 Ayyuka 
Queens Liberation Front ta shiga cikin ayyuka da yawa don ba da shawara ga haƙƙin mutanen LGBT, musamman ma masu canza tufafi. Har ila yau, kungiyar ta shiga cikin abubuwan LGBT kamar LGBT Pride March.  :  Mambobin wani lokacin suna sa tufafi yayin da suke neman 'yan majalisa na jihar New York. 

Kungiyar sau da yawa tana aiki tare da wasu kungiyoyin LGBT na gida, kamar su Gay Activists Alliance da Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries. 

A farkon shekarun 1970s, kungiyoyin sun yi nasarar amfani da shari'a don soke dokar Birnin New York game da giciye. : 87 

A cikin 1973, Queens Liberation Front ta amince da gyare-gyare na sulhu ga dokar hana nuna bambanci ta Birnin New York wanda ya kara da jima'i ga dokar, amma ya bayyana dokar ba ta rufe giciye ba. Darakta na kungiyar, Bebe Scarpie, ya sadu da mai tallafawa lissafin a City Hall kuma ya amince da sulhu. Lauyan kungiyar, Richard Levidow, ya yi imanin cewa sashi na warewa ya saba wa Kundin Tsarin Mulki na Amurka kuma saboda haka ba za a iya aiwatar da shi ba.

Lesbian Feminist Liberation ta yi tsayayya da wasan kwaikwayon da drag queens suka yi a 1973 NYC Pride March a Birnin New York. Yayin da suka wuce takardu, Sylvia Rivera, na Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, ta ɗauki makirufo daga Vito Russo kuma ta yi magana game da wannan ra'ayi, ta ba da jawabi game da ciyar da lokaci a kurkuku, kuma maza masu madaidaiciya waɗanda ke cinyewa da dukan membobin al'ummar gay sun tsananta musu da kuma bugawa. Rivera ta ƙare ta hanyar jagorantar waka don "Gay Power!"  Jean O'Leary na Lesbian Feminist Liberation sannan ya karanta wata sanarwa a madadin mata 100 waɗanda suka karanta, a wani bangare, "Muna goyon bayan haƙƙin kowane mutum ya yi ado kamar yadda yake so. Amma muna adawa da cin zarafin mata ta maza don nishaɗi ko riba.  Lee Brewster na Queens Liberation Front ya amsa don tallafawa drag da drag queen a cikin al'umma. An la'anta Brewster da ƙarfi lokacin da ya kira lesbians suna magana da zagi ga mata - "b***hes." June 1973. Accessed Jan 1, 2025. Jama'ar da ke ƙara fushi sun kwantar da hankali ne kawai lokacin da Bette Midler, wanda ya ji a rediyo a cikin gidan Greenwich Village, ya zo, ya ɗauki makirufo, kuma ya fara raira "Abokai". Wannan yana daya daga cikin abubuwan da suka faru da yawa a farkon shekarun 1970 inda 'yan mata mata mata, maza masu luwadi, da kuma drag queens a wasu lokuta sun sami kansu cikin rikici; yayin da wasu abubuwan da suka gabata, kamar wadanda kungiyar mata ta GLF ke jagoranta, galibi suna da jituwa tsakanin waɗannan ƙungiyoyin rikici. Shepard, Benjamin Heim and Ronald Hayduk (2002) From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization. Verso. pp.156-160 

 Duba kuma 
Portal LGBTQ New York City
 Gay Activists Alliance
 History of lesbianism in the United States
 LGBT culture in New York City
 List of LGBT people from New York City
 NYC Pride March
 Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries

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