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GAY PICTUR
Then ’69 she beme part of this anizatn lled the Gay Liberatn Front and began documentg gay, lbian, and transgenr activists New York Cy and around the was photography weaponized as a tool for LGBT activism? This was due to the fact that homosexualy was illegal the Uned Stat durg this era. Post-Stonewall you have a real emergence as part of gay liberatn of tryg to document the people’s liv.
The photographers were a part of a movement of gay visibily wh the objective of takg back public space. Part of the opprsn faced by gay and transgenr people the ‘60s was beg nied accs to public space. A bar uld be shut down if they had gay patrons, you uld be arrted for cross-drsg durg the time.
The rts happened at the end of June 1969, when the bar was raid one eveng as part of a state crackdown on drkg tablishments that did not have their liquor license — as well as the fact that the bar was servg gay and transgenr people, who were nsired crimal clientele at the the raid a lot of the clientele began to fight back, but what most overlook is that a lot of those who were fightg back were the people on the streets at the time: disenanchised queer youths who were livg on the streets of New York Cy and the Village, many of whom had been kicked out by their fai, had difficulty fdg jobs bee they were genr nonnformg, and this really beme the re of the people who fought back agast the police that night.