40 years after Stonewall Part 1: emerging voices

Gay Liberation Front: photo by Peter Hujar

June 28, 1969 transformed the social landscape of our nation — and the world. But despite forty years of progress, “[it] is still difficult for the average American to empathize with the struggles of gay people.” Just a week ago, The New York Times offered this as a partial explanation for the anomalous vacuum that prevented one singular voice from leading the gay rights movement after Stonewall — a voice that could have given the years that followed a deeper sense of solidarity, a voice strong enough to inspire martyrdom.

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