AFP have been to New York on the fortieth anniversary of the Stonewall Riot which heralded the start of campaigns for gay equality in the USA and led to the start of Gay Prides.
The uprising ‘rocked the neighborhood for five consecutive nights, as homosexuals fought back against police raids targeting gay-friendly establishments.’
AFP
Observers and participants looking back said in hindsight the riots, involving about 200 mostly young gays, among them drag queens and lesbians, should have been no surprise, given the anti-authoritarian mood of the era.
At the time, they note, revolution was all the rage, including the 1968 student protests, the Black Power Movement, demonstrations against the Vietnam War and the hippie counter-culture movement.
Good feature.
