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1969 Radical Gay Riot vs. Police Bigots
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1969 Radical Gay Riot vs. Police Bigots

The Stonewall Rebellion in NYC signalled the start of the gay pride movement, which has continued its progressive and liberation movement until this day. Here we had oppressive Irish (as seen through the phrase "paddy-wagon") and Italian Catholic lower-middle class cops facing down a rebellion of an ethnic/

  • Jesse Brennan
Jesse Brennan May 23, 2018 • 1 min read
Gender and Sexuality
Sexuality

Gender and Sexuality

While reading Lucian IV’s 1969 Village Voice Essay Gay Power Comes to Sheridan Square I am struck by his use of the phrase “Gay Power” which is obviously based on the slogan “Black Power.” I suppose this points to an intersectionality of the New Left which incorporated progressive views

  • Jesse Brennan
Jesse Brennan Apr 23, 2018 • 2 min read
Stonewall Uprising
Sexuality

Stonewall Uprising

In June of 1969, a spontaneous demonstration erupted after a police raid of a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village. This signalled the beginning of the gay pride movement.

  • Jesse Brennan
Jesse Brennan Apr 23, 2018 • 1 min read
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