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Stonewall and the emergence of the Gay and Lesbian movement
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The Stonewall riot 27 June 1969, 57 Christopher St. “Stonewall was a symbolic end to victim status.’
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Opposition Military and Masculinity Military and Masculinity Religion Religion Medicine Medicine Popular culture Popular culture Lack of allies Lack of allies
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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)
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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
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Strayhorn/ Auden
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The 1950/60s 1950 Mattachine Society 1956 Howl 1956 James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room sex and drugs and rock and roll
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Gay liberation Gay Liberation Front, Gay Activist Alliance Gay Pride
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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’
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Remembering Stonewall
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