HISTORY 102 Lecture 37: Gay_Liberation
30 Nov 2016
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Daughters of blitis (1955) lesbian social club founded in sanfran in "55, created magazine the. Stonewall riot (1969) riot outside the stonewall inn in ny, one of many confrontations, like. Compton"s cafeteria in sanfran, that were sparked by police harassment of gay bars, the. Stonewall riot, however, attracted more attention than earlier antecedents bc it fit into a broader narrative of civic unrest, afterward, gay liberation front founded, shifting the focus of the movement, fit into larger concerns about law and order, Harvey milk first openly gay elected official in the us, elected to the city board of. Homosexuality was considered a mental illness by the medical board. Cold war was a negative time period for homosexuals, lavender scare, 600 federal officials fired for being gay, twice as many people were fired for being gay than fired for communist activities. The coming out caused many americans to see that homosexuality was much more expansive than they would have thought.
