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AARP Celebrates Stonewall 40 by Steve Weinstein
EDGE Editor-In-ChiefWednesday Jun 24, 2009 Everyone and every organization, it seems, is marking the 40th anniversary fo the Stonewall Rebellion. Even the AARP is getting into the act.
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Stonewall, AARP has launched a multiplatform media campaign. Online, television, radio and print content includes contributions from prominent and outspoken members of the LGBT communities.
The exclusive online interactive features will include interviews and quotes from prominent leaders and 50 and older gay men and lesbians, including Martina Navratilova, Bishop Gene Robinson, gay rights movement pioneer Frank Kameny, Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese, SAGE Executive Director Michael Adams, comedian Kate Clinton, Sabrina Sojourner (an openly Lesbian African-American U.S. Representative for Washington, D.C.), John Cepek,National President of PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), David Carter (author of "Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution"), Martin Duberman (author of "Stonewall"), Eric Marcus (author of "Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990"), and Michele Balan (comedian and finalist on "Last Comic Standing").
AARP TV will broadcast an episode of its national lifestyle program "My Generation" called "Stonewall: Milestone Remembered." AARP Radio will feature an interview with Frank Kameny.
"AARP is a trusted resource and advocate for all American’s 50+ and that includes LGBT Americans," said Dave Singleton, promotions director at AARP Publications. "At AARP, we always reflect on the historical moments that changed our members’ lives and, for many of our members, the Stonewall Riots marked a pivotal moment in the fight for equality."
Additional exclusive features on www.aarp.org/stonewall include:
"Stonewall: Milestone Remembered," a video report including a walking tour of the Stonewall site, as well as interviews with LGBT leaders, historians, authors, and Stonewall riot participants.
An online photo timeline of LGBT history since AARP was founded in 1958, including the Stonewall Riots.
Q&A’s with prominent LGBT figures Bishop Gene Robinson and political humorist/author Kate Clinton.
Several articles in AARP’s publications (AARP The Magazine, AARP Bulletin, and AARP Segunda Juventud)addressing LGBT aging concerns and a first-person essay on the significance of the Stonewall Riots to an LGBT boomer about to turn 50.
"Hispanics and the Fight for LGBT Civil Rights," a special online feature on AARP Segunda Juventud’s, Web site.
AARP Radio interview with civil rights pioneer Frank Kameny, now 84.
Quotes from LGBT 50+ leaders about Stonewall.
Interactive features on what visitors think of prominent LGBT figures. Who is most influential? Who’s done extraordinary things in the past 40 years, since Stonewall?
A link to AARP’s LGBT online social network.
"Coming Out at 50;" one man’s personal story.
Original video features including "Stonewall: Milestone Remembered" and "A Conversation with Martina Navratilova."
EDGE Editor-in-Chief Steve Weinstein has been a regular correspondent for the International Herald Tribune, the Advocate, the Village Voice and Out. He has been covering the AIDS crisis since the early ’80s, when he began his career. He is the author of "The Q Guide to Fire Island" (Alyson, 2007).
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