Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenred and queer people (LGBTQ) have been publicly advotg for equal rights and rponsibili wh U.S. society sce the late 1960’s. The Uned Stat has ma nsirable progrs s acceptance of sexual diversy, as has racial and relig diversy. As of June 2015, all stat the U.S. perm…
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WCHCRAFT AND THE GAY COUNTERCULTURE
From Wong’s work, to the wild, androgyno jewelry of partners love and life Alex and Lee, to Billy Shire’s studd “Welfare” jacket (wner of the Levi’s Denim Art Contt) — all reads a b like the left-behd artifacts of a fal Summer of Love, jt before AIDS stroyed a generatn of gay men. The 1969 Stonewall rts Greenwich Village marked the advent of the morn gay rights movement: prefacg the formatn of gay rights anisatns, a more activist LGBTQ civil-rights movement, and the nceptn of annual pri march.
” poster for the Gay Liberatn Front — a movement found to champn the queer muny the aftermath of the Stonewall uprisg. ” Fouratt would help found the Gay Liberatn Front and Hujar also beme volved; a year after the Stonewall Uprisg he anised the takg of this photograph. The image is not nsely-populated — homosexualy was still illegal — however, visually, brgs the queer muny out of the domtic realm and other vert spac, to the public sphere: “It is a famo moment the history of gay rights Ameri, ” ntu Shultz, “and is tertg that Hujar plays a visible role that.
Groundbreakg Queer theorist Eve Sedgwick, her work Epistemology of the Closet, observ the 20th century as beg particularly characterized by the terms homo and heterosexual, so much so that this bary erns almost every aspect of our social beg. She stat, “[the] homo/heterosexual fn has been a pridg master term of the past century, one that has the same, primary importance for all morn Wtern inty and social anizatn. 1910 Bloomsbury Group London is formulated, wh Virgia Woolfe as the facto lear: ntroversial approach to homosexualy and the stutn of marriage (click for more on the Bloomsbury Group).