Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Stonewall Riots, Gay Bar
10 Apr 2020
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Women"s studies 1021: october 2 - reading notes. This article is focused on the stonewall rebellion that took place in 1969 and lead to the liberation of gay men and the lgbtq community in the us. The rebellion occurred at a gay bar in new york and the men and women that were asked to leave or were arrested by police fought back for 6 days. The individuals that were interviewed were all at stonewall that night and are now concerned america is moving backward in their policies surrounding the lgbtq. What it means to be touched, proposing that but untouchability or stoneness can be an emotional and sexual category. This reading focuses on butches and how they are typically seen as untouchable and cold. It looks at different poems and writings written by butches or about butches.
