๐ #NO_KINGS & ๐ #NO_FOOLS protest: #Bruce_Springsteen on #Renee_Good, #Alex_Pretti before ' #Streets_of_Minneapolis ' song.
๐๐๐ THE BIRTH OF #NORMALIZING #PORNOGRAPHY AND #HOMOSEXUALITY IN THE ๐ฑ๐ท #USA! by ๐ซ๐ท #France (french Swine again
Not to Meantion the #Birth of #PROCESSED_FOODS = #OBESITY IN ๐ฑ๐ท #AMERICA!
#Anti_pornography movement
Main article: #Anti_pornography movement in the United States
The anti-pornography movement in #Minneapolis #began in the 1980s, as a reaction to the cityโs #adult_industry which had grown significantly in the 1970s. In the '70s, brothers Ferris and Edward Alexander had bought multiple adult businesses in the Central and Powderhorn neighborhoods, including the Rialto Theater on East Lake Street. The theater was popular among heterosexual and homosexual customers, the latter of whom began cruising at the location. As a result, the Minneapolis Police Department conducted raids of adult businesses and harassed their patrons throughout the following decade. This attack would disproportionately target poor and transgender citizens, as well as citizens of color and commercial sex workers. Many residents and the local media sided with the police department, blaming the Rialto for increased crime in the area. Twin Cities lesbian and feminist centers like the Women's Coffee House, the Lesbian Resource Center, and the Amazon Bookstore would later become ground zero for debates about pornography among radical feminists. Many of these radical feminist spaces were dominated by white, middle-class "respectable" Scandinavian Americans.[78] An early opponent to pornography shops was the South Side Sewing Circle, who would frequently "browse" adult stores and confront their customers for buying pornography.[79]
In 1977, the Minneapolis City Council enacted a zoning ordinance which outlawed the operation of adult businesses near churches, schools, or residential areas; however this ordinance was struck down in 1983 after Ferris Alexander sued the city and an appeals court ruled in his favor. After the reversal of the law, neighborhood residents formed various groups[b] which began direct action and political campaigns against the Alexanders' businesses. Despite white middle-class privilege among local feminist groups, this task force was composed of diverse racial and class groups, some of whom were former civil rights activists.[80] Feminists Naomi Scheman, Catharine MacKinnon, and Andrea Dworkin became involved in local organizing. The latter two testified against pornography, however they were both against zoning restrictions, considering them an insufficient measure in fighting pornography. MacKinnon instead advocated for an elimination of pornography altogether, calling it a violation of women's civil rights, and its existence a product of patriarchal violence.[81]
Charlee Hoyt, Republican city council member, then asked MacKinnon and Dworkin to author an expansion to the cityโs anti-discrimination policy, which would eliminate pornography on the basis of radical feminist theory. Opponents of the proposed ordinance, including adult industry workers, civil libertarians, and members of the Christian Right were absent at its hearing; the Alexander brothers too were unconcerned about the ordinance. The law passed by a vote of 7 - 6, but was vetoed twice by then-mayor Donald M. Fraser. MacKinnon and Dworkin later wrote a similar policy for the conservative mayor and city council of Indianapolis, which was passed by the city council but then struck down in a federal appeals court in 1986.[82]
After both the Indianapolis and Minneapolis policies received national news, a split was forged between anti-pornography or radical feminists, and sex-positive feminists nationally.[83] Many Gay men also criticized anti-pornography action as a regulation of public sex and gay male sexuality. This disagreement also stemmed from conflicts between lesbians and gay men concerning protests against Anita Bryant in the mid-1970s.[84]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Minneapolis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pornography_movement_in_the_United_States