Durg Prohibn, gay nightlife and culture reached new heights—at least temporarily.
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HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
Amerin gay liberatn activist Marsha P Johnson (1945 ‑ 1992), wearg headband, and an unintified woman facepat, on 7th Avenue South (between Grove and Christopher streets), attend the send annual Stonewall anniversary march (Gay Liberatn Day), later known as Gay Pri, New York, New York, June 21, 1971. 20th December 1989: Portra of Amerin thor, AIDS mpaigner and gay rights activist Larry Kramer, founr of ACT‑UP and the Gay Men's Health Crisis group, posg ont of a book shelf his home, New York Cy. By the mid-1920s, at the height of the Prohibn era, they were attractg as many as 7, 000 people of var rac and social class—gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and straight alike.
Stonewall (1969) is often nsired the begng of forward progrs the gay rights movement. The Begngs of a New Gay World“In the late 19th century, there was an creasgly visible prence of genr-non-nformg men who were engaged sexual relatnships wh other men major Amerin ci, ” says Chad Heap, a profsor of Amerin Studi at Gee Washgton Universy and the thor of Slummg: Sexual and Racial Enunters Amerin Nightlife, 1885-1940.