The Pink Panthers

The Pink Panthers name has been used for several different LGBT rights organizations in North America since the 1970s.

This article is about the LGBTQ rights organizations. For the organized crime network, see Pink Panthers. For the series of comedy films, see The Pink Panther. For other uses, see The Pink Panther (disambiguation).

The most recent incarnations include:

  • A small organization that does fundraisers to promote gay rights organizations
  • A militant gay rights collective in Montreal, Quebec

Pink Panthers Patrol

The Pink Panthers Patrol (often shortened to Pink Panthers) were a civilian patrol group based in New York City, founded by members of Queer Nation in the summer of 1990 in order to combat anti-LGBTQ violence in Manhattan's West Village.[1] They received notoriety when they were successfully sued in 1991 by MGM Pictures, the owner of the rights the Pink Panther cartoon.[2] The neighborhood watch group would patrol areas that had a large number of gang assaults on homosexual men. In NYC, where the Pink Panthers was founded these patrols would generally be in the East and West Village. There was a number of patrols in the rambles (Central Park).

Controversy
See also: Cultural appropriation

As with any invocation of Black politics, sociologists and critical race theorists caution against the co-optation of Black Power and Black symbolism. The main argument is that modeling after Black activism implicitly reduces the struggles and interests of the community.[3]

See also
  •  LGBT portal

References
  1. Hays, Constance. "Gay Patrol And MGM In a Battle Over Name". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  2. "Gay Group Can't Call Itself Pink Panthers". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  3. Chenier, Elise. "The Trouble with Invoking Jim Crow to Fight for LGBT Issues". Retrieved 8 March 2015.
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