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Tema / THEME<br />

Trad liberaluri mimarTuleba Camouyalibda, romlis<br />

mTavr mizansac geebisa da lesboselebis sruli<br />

asimilacia warmoadgenda `yvela amerikuli faseulobebis<br />

mxardaWerisa da SenarCunebis gaTvaliswinebiT~.<br />

Sedegad, saSualo fenis TvaliT, moZraobam ufro respeqtabeluri<br />

saxe SesZina, Tumca, masobrivi xasiaTi<br />

dakarga.<br />

formalurad `mataCinebis sazogadoeba~ geebis<br />

garda, lesboselebsac warmoadgenda, Tumca, masSi<br />

mamakacebi sWarbobdnen. lesboselebi samarTlianad<br />

Tvlidnen, rom aseTi organizacia saTanadod ver asaxavda<br />

da ar iTvaliswinebda maT problemebs. 1955 wels<br />

del martinisa da filis laionis TaosnobiT daarsda<br />

pirveli lesbosuri organizacia amerikaSi _ `bilitisis<br />

qaliSvilebi~. `mataCinebis sazogadoebis~ msgavsad,<br />

maTi organizacia moZraobis liberalur frTas ekuTvnoda.<br />

60-iani wlebidan, demokratiuli moZraobis zogadi<br />

gaZlierebis fonze, geebisa da lesboselTa uflebebisaTvis<br />

brZolam ufro radikaluri xasiaTi miiRo. misi<br />

axali lideri, frank kemeni amtkicebda, rom sazogadoebisagan<br />

gulmowyaleba ki ar unda eTxovaT, aramed<br />

ebrZolaT samoqalaqo uflebebisaTvis sxva umciresobebTan<br />

erTad. amgvarma radikalizmma ganxeTqileba<br />

gamoiwvia homofiliur moZraobaSi.<br />

liberaluri yaidis liderebi, romlebic cdilobdnen<br />

sazogadoeba sakuTar uwyinarobaSi daerwmunebinaT,<br />

meore flangze aRmoCndnen da TandaTan<br />

gauCinardnen. axali liderebi ki aqtiur moqmedebaze<br />

gadavidnen. regularulad awyobdnen mitingebsa da<br />

saprotes<strong>to</strong> demonstraciebs, ar eridebodnen policiasTan<br />

Setakebasac. 60-iani wlebis miwuruls, did<br />

qalaqebSi gei-lesbi mioZraoba im droisaTvis popularul<br />

hipebisa da bitnikebis moZraobasTan gadaikveTa,<br />

ramac kidev ufro gazarda maTi masStaburoba.<br />

liberaluridan radikalur moZraobaze gadasvlis<br />

simbolur zRvarad s<strong>to</strong>unvolis amboxia miCneuli. 3 am<br />

stiqiurma buntma geebsa da lesboselebs daanaxa, rom<br />

maT aqvT Zala, magram realuri cvlilebebis misaRwevaT<br />

ufro organizebuli da koordinirebuli moqmedeba<br />

sWirdebaT.<br />

s<strong>to</strong>unvolis Semdeg 4<br />

1969 wels, s<strong>to</strong>unvolis amboxebis Semdeg, niu<br />

iorkelma aqtivistebma axali politikuri organizacia,<br />

geebis ganmaTavisuflebeli fronti (Gay<br />

Liberation Front) daaarses, romelmac moqmedebis ufro<br />

radikalur gza airCia. sul male, organizaciebi imave<br />

dasaxelebiT amoqmedda amerikis sxvadasxva qalaqeb-<br />

ciety “with due consideration <strong>to</strong> the support and preservation<br />

of all American values”. As a result, the movement<br />

gained a more respectable image in the eyes of the middle<br />

class, though at the same time it lost its momentum.<br />

Formally, the Mattachine Society included lesbians as<br />

well, though gay men predominated. Lesbians justifi ably<br />

thought that such an organization would either not suffi<br />

ciently take their interests in<strong>to</strong> account or fail <strong>to</strong> do so.<br />

In 1955, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon founded the fi rst lesbian<br />

organization in America, the Daughters of Bilitis. Like<br />

the Mattachine Society, the organization was of an overall<br />

leftist nature.<br />

In the 1960s, as liberal movements across the board<br />

were gaining strength, the battle for the rights of gays<br />

and lesbians became more radical. Mattachine’s new leader,<br />

Frank Kemeny, maintained that the movement should<br />

not politely ask society <strong>to</strong> take a kinder view, but rather<br />

fi ght for civil rights alongside other minorities. This radicalism<br />

later led <strong>to</strong> a schism in the homophile movement.<br />

Liberal leaders who tried <strong>to</strong> convince society of their<br />

own inoff ensiveness found themselves marginalized and<br />

they gradually became irrelevant as newer leaders en-<br />

diana devisi, demonstracia, jorj vaSing<strong>to</strong>nis xidi, niu iorki, 1973 wlis maisi<br />

Diana Davies, George Washing<strong>to</strong>n Bridge demonstration demonstration, New York, 1973 May

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