Radical Politics 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/
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
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.
