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The roots of that bate go back to s earlit days, and suggt that Pri and the Stonewall rts have always been part of a ntent battle for inty and ownership – a battle that has helped produce the very ia of what beg a lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or queer person might Stonewall rts were not the birth of the gay rights movement.

Seven years before that, when police had raid Coopers, a donut shop the cy ntled between two gay bars, LGBTQ+ patrons had attacked officers after the arrt of a number of drag queens, sex workers and gay had been a gay rights movement the US among people scribg themselv as “homophil” sce the late 40s. Hirschfeld’s scientific approach, bed wh his sympathetic treatment of LGBTQ+ people – he was himself homosexual – had been key velopg the ia that their shared experienc uld be unrstood not jt as discrete sexual (and crimal) acts, nor as psychiatric illns, but as a legible sexual and genr inty, which uld be afford civil rights. When gay people began anisg the US after the war, they were forced to start aga om first prcipl, wh only a vague awarens of Hirschfeld’s Hirschfeld, an early mpaigner for gay rights.

Photograph: Getty ImagIn Los Angel 1950, a group of experienced polil activists and munists, cludg Communist party USA member Harry Hay, me together to form the Mattache Society, one of the first homosexual rights anisatns the US.

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) The Mattache Society had radil roots activism, takg on the anisatnal stcture of cells and central anisatn favoured by the Communist well as publishg magaz for gay men, and supportg victims of police entrapment, the society had wir polil aims, cludg to “unify homosexuals isolated om their own kd” and to “te homosexuals and heterosexuals toward an ethil homosexual culture parallelg the cultur of the Negro, Mexin and Jewish peopl”. It wasn’t enough to fend men who had sex wh men; rather, a polil stggle uld only be waged by creatg the ia of the homosexual as an inty, the same polil mol as other mori – someone who uld regnise him or herself as part of a wir culture.

Such aims would bee key to the ncept of “gay pri” some two s two s, however, would be among the harst for LGBTQ+ people US history, as the greater visibily of the homosexual inty led to a nservative backlash, and a moral panic the media that was palised upon by policians. In 1952, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn clud homosexualy s new Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs, classifyg as a “socpathic personaly disturbance”. Meanwhile, Senator Joe McCarthy was g public revulsn towards homosexuals his mpaign agast leftists.

Communists and homosexuals were extribly lked as anti-Amerin subversiv, he argued. ”In 1953, Print Dwight Eisenhower passed executive orr 10450, prohibg homosexuals om workg for the feral ernment – an orr that stayed place, part, until 1995.

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Ironilly, sackg 5, 000 feral employe and thstg them out of the closet, the red-baers provid a new hort of activists for the homophile movement, such as the army map service astronomer Frank Kameny, who voted the rt of his life to the LGBTQ+ e. After he was forced to appear before the Hoe Un-Amerin Activi Commtee, Hay was expelled om the Mattache Society, now a growg anisatn of a few thoand men, and he wasn’t the last radil to be thrown homophile movement began to tackle “subversive elements” and orient self around rpectabily. Adherg to a strict drs of shirt and tie for men and drs for women, 39 activists om var homophile anisatns turned up to “ask for equaly, opportuny, digny”.

The bravery of the men and women nnot be overstated, but the approach of quiet, pole lobbyg would make few roads to a culture of stutnalised homophobia. It didn’t matter if homosexuals were succsful, law-abidg, and nventnal – they were still un-Amerin.

A bar uld lose s liquor licence merely for servg a patron knew to be homosexual, sce homosexuals were, by their very nature, regard as “disorrly”. In 1966, the Mattache Society challenged this policy wh a “sip-” at Juli’, a Greenwich Village bar that was popular wh gay men, but was attemptg to shake off s homosexual bars equently flouted this law, explog legal loophol and payg off the NYPD while chargg their LGBTQ+ ctomers high pric for watered-down drks.

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Unlike the clientele of Juli’, who tend to be whe, middle-class gay men, the Stonewall Inn tered to more ethnilly mixed ctomers, maly gay men, alongsi trans women and some lbians such as Stormé DeLarverie.

Photograph: Michelle V Ags/New York Tim/Rx/eyeveThe creatn of the queer cultur that preced an explic homosexual polil inty was the work of many hands, across many generatns. Men and women who had experienced homosexual sex, relatnships and even subcultur the forc were changed by the experienc, and by war self.

Port ci like San Francis and New York particular beme home to many such displaced the time of the rts, there were enough gay bars New York to necsate discreet guis for visors. While gay guis of the time scribe bars such as Juli’ and Candy Store as “mixed-llegiate” or “very elegant”, Stonewall was dismissed as a place terg only to young dancers. In the Homosexual Handbook, published 1969, Angelo D’Arngelo (sadly a psdonym) scrib as “a haven of and for narcissists”.