Homophile

Obviously, Average Joe hasn't heard of the term "homophile," and he probably uses the term "homosexual," indicating that the movement failed in the respect. ❋ Katie Miller (2012)

Troy Perry, founder of the Metropolitan Community Churches MCC, remembers meeting Dr. Kameny in 1969: He was a hero in what we then called the 'homophile' movement. ❋ Joseph Ward III (2011)

He urged what was then called the homophile movement to assert itself to achieve equality ❋ Unknown (2011)

She was already an activist in the nascent "homophile" movement. ❋ Unknown (2009)

GLF's membership wasn't the well-mannered ladies and gentlemen from the "homophile" organizations who, since 1949, had pleaded gently for acceptance, and who made sure to dress "appropriately" when marching or demonstrating. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One observer recalled a scene that was the virtual opposite of what the homophile organizations had counseled—and one of the great renegade moments in American history: ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

The homophile and gay marriage movements tell us that the nuclear family is the destiny for all of us who wish to be healthy. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

The first gay political movement in the U.S., the “homophile” movement of the 1950s and 1960s, sought “civil rights,” “full citizenship,” and “recognition that we are just like heterosexuals.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

When homophile organizations staged protests, they consisted of marching in silence for a few minutes, then departing quickly and without a word. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

Like the homophile movement, the gay marriage movement demands that, in order to gain acceptance as full citizens, its constituents adopt the cultural norms of the American citizen: productivity, selflessness, responsibility, sexual restraint, and the restraint of homosexual expression in particular. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

In response to the antihomosexual culture of the 1950s, members of the Mattachine Society, the Daughters of Bilitis, and the Janus Society, the three major homophile organizations, adopted the “politics of respectability” of the civil rights movement. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

Whereas homophile movements had avoided using the word gay in any of their publications, a group calling itself the Gay Liberation Front GLF formed soon after Stonewall. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

The keynote speaker for the conference, a “big but pretty woman” named Joan Fleischmann, later said that “masculine men and feminine women were good public relations” for the homophile movement and that she was selected as convention chair in part because she did not look like “the stereotypical bulldyke.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

The candle honors the evolution of Spirit in pluralistic expressions of sexuality and gender in the era defined by the rise of the feminist, homophile movement, gay liberation movement, queer movement, and LGBTQ community in the past 50 to 100 years. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And if homophiles claim to be a genetically and immutably formed species why cannot I equally claim to be a genetically formed heterophile and therefore incapable of being a homophile? ❋ Unknown (2009)

If I am a heterophile, someone who loves and respects the complementarity of creation, I cannot, at the same time, be its antithesis - a homophile who loves the reduction of everything to the same and equivalence. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the 1950s, the homophile movement first sought social acceptance for gays and lesbians through a handful of small, politically cautious organizations like the Mattachine Society, which sponsored newsletters and discussion groups and lobbied to end police raids targeting gay activities. ❋ Unknown (2007)