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-LGBT violence in Manhattan's West Village. They received notoriety when they were successfully sued in 1991 by MGM Pictures, the owner of the rights to the Pink Panther cartoon. The neighborhood watch group would patrol areas that had a large number of gang assaults on LGBTQ people. 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).
In 2012, Todd A Haley II resurrected the group and formed the LGBT Pink Panthers Movement, establishing headquarters in Denver, Colorado.
See also
- Black Panther Party
- White Panther Party
- Rainbow Coalition
- List of LGBT rights organisations
- Pink capitalism
References
- Hays, Constance (27 May 1991). "Gay Patrol And MGM In a Battle Over Name". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- Moss, Jeremiah (25 October 2010). "Pink Panthers". Jeremiah's Vanishing New York.
- "Gay Group Can't Call Itself Pink Panthers". The New York Times. 5 October 1991. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- "Todd Haley: The Pink Panther Movement". Gay Soul Talk (Podcast). November 2013.
Further consideration
- MGM-Pathe Communications v. Pink Panther Patrol, 1991 lawsuit
External links
- lespantheresroses.org (French/ English site)
