The Pink Panthers

New York City LGBTQ rights group

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 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.[1][2] Gay bashings in New York City were happening on the streets with regularity at the time.[3] The organization's logo was the pink triangle with a paw print in it.[3]

Gerri Wells founded the organization.[3] It recruited about 150 members shortly after its establishment.[3] The members would organize into groups to do foot patrols in gay areas.[3] These patrols would carry whistles to scare off assailants, and some groups carried citizens band radios to call for help.[3] If necessary they would seek police support.[3] In case of an attack, they would intervene to protect the victim.[3] Wells explained that there was a public perception that people could physically assault gay people without consequence, and that the gay community would no longer tolerate this behavior.[4]

They received notoriety when they were successfully sued in 1991 by MGM Pictures, the owner of the rights to the Pink Panther cartoon.[5] 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).[citation needed]

## See also

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* LGBTQ portal

* Black Panther Party
* White Panther Party
* Rainbow Coalition
* List of LGBT rights organisations
* Pink capitalism

## References

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1. ^ Hays, Constance (27 May 1991). "Gay Patrol And MGM In a Battle Over Name". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
2. ^ Moss, Jeremiah (25 October 2010). "Pink Panthers". Jeremiah's Vanishing New York.
3. ^ a b c d e f g h Span, Paula (19 September 1990). "PATROL OF THE PINK PANTHERS". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 14 March 2024.
4. ^ "Pink Panthers Protect Pansies". Weekly World News. October 9, 1990. p. 44.
5. ^ "Gay Group Can't Call Itself Pink Panthers". The New York Times. 5 October 1991. Retrieved 1 January 2015.

## Further consideration

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* MGM-Pathe Communications v. Pink Panther Patrol, 1991 lawsuit

## External links

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* lespantheresroses.org (French/ English site)

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Black Panther Party

Founders|

* Huey P. Newton
* Bobby Seale

Leadership|

* Elaine Brown
* Eldridge Cleaver
* Kathleen Cleaver
* Donald Cox
* Fred Hampton
* David Hilliard

Members|

| West Coast based|

* JoNina Abron-Ervin
* Richard Aoki
* Charles Barron
* William Lee Brent
* Ed Bullins
* Bunchy Carter
* Mark Comfort
* Aaron Dixon
* Emory Douglas
* B. Kwaku Duren
* Barbara Easley-Cox
* Kent Ford
* Reggie Forte
* Raymond "Masai" Hewitt
* Elbert "Big Man" Howard
* John Huggins
* Ericka Huggins
* Bobby Hutton
* George Jackson
* Joan Tarika Lewis
* Jalil Muntaqim (Anthony Bottom)
* Pat Parker
* Geronimo Pratt
* Robert Trivers
* Michael Zinzun

|

East Coast based|

* Mumia Abu-Jamal
* Sundiata Acoli
* Ashanti Alston
* Kuwasi Balagoon
* Dhoruba bin Wahad
* Veronza Bowers Jr.
* Safiya Bukhari
* W. Paul Coates
* Marshall "Eddie" Conway
* Jamal Joseph
* Chaka Khan
* Warren Kimbro
* Lonnie McLucas
* Denise Oliver-Velez
* Larry Pinkney
* Alex Rackley
* Nile Rodgers
* George W. Sams Jr.
* Afeni Shakur
* Assata Shakur
* Russell Maroon Shoatz
* Michael "Cetewayo" Tabor
* James Dixon York

Southern based|

* H. Rap Brown
* Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin
* Mark Essex
* James Forman
* Robert Hillary King
* Pete O'Neal
* Malik Rahim
* Herman Wallace
* Albert Woodfox

Chicago based|

* Mark Clark
* William O'Neal
* Bobby Rush
* Marion Stamps
* Akua Njeri (Deborah Johnson)

Others|

* Stokely Carmichael
* Connie Matthews

Influences|

* Black power
* Deacons for Defense and Justice
* W. E. B. Du Bois
* Frantz Fanon
* Harry Haywood
* Lowndes County Freedom Organization
* Malcolm X
* Robert F. Williams

Programs and projects|

* Ten-Point Program
* Free Breakfast for Children
* The Black Panther (newspaper)
* Rainbow Coalition
* United Front Against Fascism

Inspired groups|

| Contemporary|

* American Indian Movement
* Black Guerrilla Family
* Black Liberation Army
* Black Liberators
* Black Panthers (Israel)
* British Black Panthers
* Dalit Panthers
* George Jackson Brigade
* Gray Panthers
* I Wor Kuen
* Ngā Tamatoa
* Polynesian Panthers
* Red Guard Party
* The Pink Panthers
* Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi
* White Panther Party
* Young Lords

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Subsequent|

* Assata's Daughters
* Black Panther Militia
* Black Riders Liberation Party
* Black Women's Defense League
* Huey P. Newton Gun Club
* New Afrikan Black Panther Party
* New Black Panther Party
* New Panther Vanguard Movement
* Revolutionary Black Panther Party

Films and television|

* Black Power, We're Goin' Survive America (1968)
* Black Panthers: A Report (1968)
* Black Panthers (1968)
* Mayday (1969)
* Interview with Bobby Seale (1969)
* Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther (1969)
* Finally Got the News (1970)
* The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)
* Teach Our Children (1973)
* In the Event Anyone Disappears (1974)
* Charles Garry: Streetfighter in the Courtroom (1992)
* Panther (1995)
* All Power to the People (1996)
* Public Enemy (1999)
* A Huey P. Newton Story (2001)
* Night Catches Us (2010)
* The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015)
* Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
* The Big Cigar (2024)

Books|

* Soul on Ice (1968)
* Seize the Time (1970)
* Blood in My Eye (1972)
* Revolutionary Suicide (1973)
* A Taste of Power (1992)
* Black Against Empire (2013)

Related articles|

* 1968 Olympics Black Power salute
* COINTELPRO
* Intercommunalism
* Murder of Betty Van Patter
* New Haven Black Panther trials
* Panther 21
* Rice–Poindexter case
* Robert Templeton
* Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
* Panther Power (2000)
* Black power movement
* Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention

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