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1 Stonewall and the emergence of the Gay and Lesbian movement

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

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

4 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)

5 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

6 Strayhorn/ Auden

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

8 Gay liberation Gay Liberation Front, Gay Activist Alliance Gay Pride

9 Harvey Milk, 1930-78 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’

10 Remembering Stonewall


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