Thomas Carey longtime gay activist at Gay Pride in San Diego 1978. No one mingled while cops attacked a popular cruising area at the docks on June 3, nor did anyone stand around as vigilantes descended on a cruising park in Queens on June 20. When police had raided the bar a few nights before, no crowd had gathered in fact, people ran from Deputy Inspector Seymour Pine, as they had during the five other bar raids in the Village that month. Although Rodwell hated the Stonewall-a Mafia-run, police-harassed, condemnable hole in the wall-this felt different. In the early hours of Saturday, June 28, New York’s Craig Rodwell was heading home from his Greenwich Village bookstore when he saw a crowd gathered outside the Stonewall Inn. For months, the group picketed the States Line Company and other antigay businesses, but by Friday, June 27 one CHF member was so frustrated with nonviolent tactics, he predicted confrontations with police.Īlthough Rodwell hated the Stonewall-a Mafia-run, police-harassed, condemnable hole in the wall-this felt different. Whittington lost his job at the States Line Company as a result of the publicity.ĭeclaring “war on both gay and straight establishments,” Laurence founded the Committee for Homosexual Freedom (CHF)-which Jim Kepner described as “the first full-fledged Gay Lib type group”-in April 1969. as “middle-class bigots,” urging other gays to come out. The Democratic National Convention riots radicalized Leo Laurence, a “tiny, angry man” who returned to San Francisco with promises of a “Homosexual Revolution of ’69.” Attacking the city’s gay establishment, Laurence served briefly as editor of Vector, the magazine of the Society for Individual Rights (S.I.R.), though he was removed after he and his lover, Gale Whittington, publicly lambasted S.I.R. In this excerpt, frustration with police violence at the Democratic Convention in Chicago sets the stage for Stonewall-a riot in direct response to business-as-usual harassment. Featuring more than 300 documentary images of activism in the decades preceding and following the Stonewall Riots of June 1969, the book presents an inclusive, intersectional, and challenging view of queer history. We Are Everywhere, from the creators of the popular Instagram account is a large-format tribute to the fight for queer liberation.
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It wasn’t the first time queer folks fought back, but it was a rallying cry for the next wave of gay liberation.