Veteran homophile activists joined with LGBTQ folks who had earned their stripes in the Black civil rights movement, the anti-war effort, and the women’s movement to launch new, in-your-face organizations dedicated to confronting the system-the discrimination, harassment, and criminalization-that forced gay people to live in fear. Even before the six nights of confrontations outside the Stonewall Inn had come to an end, meetings were called by movement leaders to channel the anger and energy released by the multi-day melee on the streets of Greenwich Village. The Stonewall uprising was followed by a year of intensive organizing. This new “gay liberation” phase of the movement didn’t just happen. And pre-Stonewall activists, who numbered in the hundreds, were joined by thousands-even tens of thousands-of newly energized activists committed to fighting for gay liberation. By the time of the June 1969 Stonewall uprising, the “homophile” movement was nearly two decades old and there were between 50 to 60 organizations across the country.īut Stonewall was definitely the start of something -and something big, because one year later, when LGBTQ people gathered at Sheridan Square to mark the uprising’s first anniversary and the start of the Christopher Street Liberation Day march, there were 1,500 organizations.
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Episode Notesįrom Eric Marcus : After listening to Making Gay History’s first two Stonewall 50 episodes, you know that Stonewall isn’t where it all began.
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Credit: Photo by Diana Davies, courtesy of Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.
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Donna Gottschalk-lesbian, feminist, activist, photographer, artist-at the first Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day march in New York City, June 28, 1970.