In finishing up Duberman's section on "Post-Stonewall" and reading about the differences between the GAA and the GLF, I tried finding primarily posters by or about the two movements... I thought initially that since there was a tension between the GAA and GLF because of their different primary agendas, it would be easy. Needless to say, three hours later I was still coming up empty handed. I was able to find numerous images of the GLF poster (on Duberman's cover) but from various sources. I did however find an image of the GAA during a meeting in the Firehouse (NYC's first LGBT community center) sometime in 1970.
In giving up on my initial intentions to find differing posters, I shifted my attention to finding reports of how the Stonewall riots were reported from various resources...i.e. how popular New York periodicals would have reported the riots. I was slightly more successful in finding reports and it deepened my understanding of the "zeitgeist" of the time.
From many of the sources I read, it seemed as though some were fairly objective to reporting the raids and they coincided for the most part with Duberman's reports. However, in contributing more to understanding the zeitgeist, an article I found entitled "Homo nest raided, queen bees are stinging mad" was printed in the New York Daily one week after the raids. This particular one was interesting to me, because of the title alone. In reading it "Homo nest raided, queen bees are stinging mad", I had a very mixed reaction since it seems primarily to be very condescending and almost in coherence with the perspective of the older members of the homophile movement... it in essence describes the "queens" as being showy. This is even more evident in the article itself when it's stated "[The Queens] pranced out to the street blowing kisses and waving to the crowd"
Miscellaneous Images
These images are snapshots of what I would consider the effects of Stonewall. That is, since the Stonewall riots are often deemed the benchmark of the LGBT movement,the "spark" of the revolution, the long term result was ultimately the recognition and acceptance of the LGBT community. These are images from marches in New York and Chicago in 1970, and also snapshots of the first and most recent Gay Pride parades(the first is considered the Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day March)
Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day March:
Gay Pride Parades (Chicago, New York and Brazil)
From many of the sources I read, it seemed as though some were fairly objective to reporting the raids and they coincided for the most part with Duberman's reports. However, in contributing more to understanding the zeitgeist, an article I found entitled "Homo nest raided, queen bees are stinging mad" was printed in the New York Daily one week after the raids. This particular one was interesting to me, because of the title alone. In reading it "Homo nest raided, queen bees are stinging mad", I had a very mixed reaction since it seems primarily to be very condescending and almost in coherence with the perspective of the older members of the homophile movement... it in essence describes the "queens" as being showy. This is even more evident in the article itself when it's stated "[The Queens] pranced out to the street blowing kisses and waving to the crowd"Miscellaneous Images
These images are snapshots of what I would consider the effects of Stonewall. That is, since the Stonewall riots are often deemed the benchmark of the LGBT movement,the "spark" of the revolution, the long term result was ultimately the recognition and acceptance of the LGBT community. These are images from marches in New York and Chicago in 1970, and also snapshots of the first and most recent Gay Pride parades(the first is considered the Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day March)
Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day March:
Gay Pride Parades (Chicago, New York and Brazil)
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