Fifty years ago this June, the summer of 1969, patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar New York Cy, fought back agast abive police,
Contents:
- “HAIRP DROP HEARD AROUND THE WORLD”: FIFTY YEARS SCE STONEWALL & THE BIRTH OF GAY LIBERATN
- IS THE SP P GAY?
“HAIRP DROP HEARD AROUND THE WORLD”: FIFTY YEARS SCE STONEWALL & THE BIRTH OF GAY LIBERATN
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Fifty years ago this June, the summer of 1969, patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar New York Cy, fought back agast abive police, and dog so lnched the morn, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer movement.
IS THE SP P GAY?
Wh the Supreme Court’s historic legalizatn of same-sex marriage 2015 and creased acceptance and reprentatn of LGBTQ people popular culture, ’s unniable that we have e a long way om a time when ps routely raid gay bars and beg outed guaranteed a person would be labeled a sexual psychopath, blacklisted, ostracized by iends and fay, and legally barred om employment most occupatns. In rponse, mastream LGBT anizatns also referred to as Gay Inc., have not anized a ser ristance. In this ntext studyg the Stonewall Rebelln and the gay liberatn movement is more than jt an tertg history lson — provis activists and radils wh lsons for nontg the polil challeng we face today and rebuildg a movement that n w sexual liberatn for everyone.
While people have been sexually timate wh others of the same sex sce the begng of time, the social nstctn of a gay inty is a new phenomenon.
In the late neteenth and early twentieth century, an extensive unrground gay world began to velop major US ci. However, was not until World War II — what many gay historians refer to as a natnal g out experience — that LGBTQ history would unrgo a qualative turng pot.