The Pink Panthers Patrol (often shortened to Pink Panthers) were a civilian patrol group based in
New York City
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, founded by members of
Queer Nation
Queer Nation is an LGBTQ activist organization founded in March 1990 in New York City, by HIV/AIDS activists from ACT UP. The four founders were outraged at the escalation of anti-gay violence on the streets and prejudice in the arts and media ...
in the summer of 1990 in order to combat
anti-LGBT violence in Manhattan's West Village.
They received notoriety when they were successfully sued in 1991 by
MGM
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and abbreviated as MGM, is an American film, television production, distribution and media company owned by Amazon through MGM Holdings, founded on April 17, 1924 a ...
Pictures, the owner of the rights to the
Pink Panther
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cartoon.
The neighborhood watch group would patrol areas that had a large number of gang assaults on homosexual men. In
NYC
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, 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
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.
See also
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Black Panther Party
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White Panther Party
The White Panthers were an anti-racist political collective founded in November 1968 by Pun Plamondon, Leni Sinclair, and John Sinclair. It was started in response to an interview where Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, w ...
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Rainbow Coalition
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List of LGBT rights organisations
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Pink capitalism
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References
Further consideration
MGM-Pathe Communications v. Pink Panther Patrol 1991 lawsuit
External links
lespantheresroses.org(French/ English site)
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Black Panther Party
International LGBT political advocacy groups
LGBT political advocacy groups in the United States