The Pink Panthers

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] They received notoriety when they were successfully sued in 1991 by MGM Pictures, the owner of the rights to the Pink Panther cartoon.[3] 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).

This article is about the LGBT 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).

Controversy
See also: Cultural appropriation

The main argument is that modeling after Black activism implicitly reduces the struggles and interests of the community.[4]

See also

References
  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. "Gay Group Can't Call Itself Pink Panthers". The New York Times. 5 October 1991. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  4. Chenier, Elise (25 February 2014). "The Trouble with Invoking Jim Crow to Fight for LGBT Issues". Retrieved 8 March 2015.

Further consideration
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