Talk:LGBT movements in the United States

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As far as I am aware this page does not violate copyright. I am the owner of the website with the page in question. The page in question upon further research was, we believe, authored by one of our early staff members, posted to our wiki at 00:24, 23 Jan 2005. Regardless, the information is published under the same license as the Wikipedia content and is free for use. I designed my transgender specific Wiki with the clear intention that information flowed both ways from the Wikipedia to mine and visa versa. SusanLarson 22:52, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Article depth?

This page is quite long and encompasses a lot of different topics. I suggest it be slimmed down to make it more readable, without so much depth on individual subjects.
Since pages already exist for many of the individual organisations (Mattachine Society, GenderPAC, Daughters of Bilitis, Queer Nation etc.) I suggest that this page should become an overview of the movement, and that detailed information on these groups be moved out of this page and in to the relevant articles.
Thoughts? --David Edgar 11:14, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Origin of phrase?

I don't recall ever hearing the expression "Homophile Movement" before. The article claims that it is/was "a complex group of lesbian, gay and transgender organizations whose roots predate Stonewall by decades. Its foundations were laid in the 1950s." Can anybody provide any actual examples of contemporary (historical) uses of this expression? Can anybody give a cite for the phrase's actual origin? If on the other hand this is actually a phrase of recent origin that was not used in the 1950's, 1960's, etc., the article may want to mention that fact. - 4 december 2005

[edit] reorganising content

Wow, I just came across this article after writing a similar history of LGBT movements at gay rights. There is an awesome amount of information here, but much of it isn't specifically about the "homophile movement", by which most historians mean the homophile rights groups of the 1950s and 60s. I propose we merge this information with the content at "gay rights" on a new page called LGBT movements (or another similar title). Then keep stuff specifically relating to the "homophile movment" here, which I would also merge with homophile. This is a long article, so sections could comfortably be farmed off to seperate articles (eg "transgender activism"). Any thoughts? ntennis 00:48, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

I've moved the page to its new name "LGBT movements in the Unites States" from "Homophile Movement" and rewrote the introduction to match the content of the article. I now see it as complementary to a global "LGBT movements" page, though I wouldn't oppose any merging or shifting around of content between these articles. ntennis 04:53, 4 March 2006 (UTC)