Stonewall and the emergence of the Gay and Lesbian movement.

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Stonewall and the emergence of the Gay and Lesbian movement

The Stonewall riot 27 June 1969, 57 Christopher St. “Stonewall was a symbolic end to victim status.’

Opposition Military and Masculinity Military and Masculinity Religion Religion Medicine Medicine Popular culture Popular culture Lack of allies Lack of allies

Precedents DaVinci, Tchaikovsky DaVinci, Tchaikovsky Whitman, Melville Whitman, Melville Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness (1928) Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness (1928)

World War II Leaving small town America Leaving small town America Single-sex units Single-sex units Cities, Bars etc. San Francisco. Cities, Bars etc. San Francisco. Further emergence of ‘gay community’ in larger cities Further emergence of ‘gay community’ in larger cities

Strayhorn/ Auden

The 1950/60s 1950 Mattachine Society 1956 Howl 1956 James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room sex and drugs and rock and roll

Gay liberation Gay Liberation Front, Gay Activist Alliance Gay Pride

Harvey Milk, Counterculture to politics Elected to San Fancisco Board of Supervisors, January 1978 The ‘Briggs initiative’ Shot on 27 Nov 1978 May 1979 ‘White Night Riots’

Remembering Stonewall

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