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. 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 LGBT 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.

Further consideration

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