Difference between revisions of "Zapping the New York Academy of Medicine, April 6, 1976"
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A member of the Gay Socialist Action Project, a graduate student at Columbia University, had heard about the upcoming panel and had alerted the Gay Activist Alliance, which organized a demonstration on the evening of the panel. | A member of the Gay Socialist Action Project, a graduate student at Columbia University, had heard about the upcoming panel and had alerted the Gay Activist Alliance, which organized a demonstration on the evening of the panel. | ||
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Members of the Gay Socialist Action Project dressed up and infiltrated the meeting. When the panel began, they interrupted the proceedings from different places in the audience, and each proceeded to read parts of the following statement, written by Jonathan Ned Katz. Before the statement could be read in its entirety, the meeting was shut down. Here is the entire statement: | Members of the Gay Socialist Action Project dressed up and infiltrated the meeting. When the panel began, they interrupted the proceedings from different places in the audience, and each proceeded to read parts of the following statement, written by Jonathan Ned Katz. Before the statement could be read in its entirety, the meeting was shut down. Here is the entire statement: | ||
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Revision as of 15:06, 28 March 2008
On April 6, 1976, two gay organizations "zapped" (demonstrated) at the New York Academy of Medicine, which was hosting a panel on homosexuality featuring some of the most anti-homosexual psychiatrists.
A member of the Gay Socialist Action Project, a graduate student at Columbia University, had heard about the upcoming panel and had alerted the Gay Activist Alliance, which organized a demonstration on the evening of the panel.
Members of the Gay Socialist Action Project dressed up and infiltrated the meeting. When the panel began, they interrupted the proceedings from different places in the audience, and each proceeded to read parts of the following statement, written by Jonathan Ned Katz. Before the statement could be read in its entirety, the meeting was shut down. Here is the entire statement:
