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.’
Precedents
DaVinci, Tchaikovsky
Whitman, Melville
Oscar Wilde
Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness (1928)
World War II
Leaving small town America
Single-sex units
Cities, Bars etc. San Francisco.
Further emergence of ‘gay community’ in larger cities
The 1950/60s
1950 Mattachine Society
1956 Howl
1956 James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
sex and drugs and rock and roll
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’