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Written By: Ben Cosgrove
In late , two years after the Stonewall riots in New York sparked the modern gay rights movement in America, and twelve months before LIFE ceased publishing as a weekly, the magazine featured an article on &#;gay liberation&#; that, encountered decades later, feels sensational, measured and somehow endearingly, deeply square all at the same time.
Titled &#;Homosexuals in Revolt&#; and touted as &#;a major essay on America&#;s newest militants,&#; the piece elicited strong reactions from readers many of whom, of course, were less than happy that their beloved LIFE would devote a dozen pages to people whom one letter writer characterized as &#;psychic cripples.&#; Largely predictable responses from peeved readers that appeared in the Jan. 28, , issue of LIFE included:
From Telford, Penn. There was plenty to lament in your year-end issue, but the thing that struck me as most sad was the fact that LIFE felt compelled to devote 11 pages to &#;Homosexuals in Revolt.&#;
From Chicago Essentially, it is absurd to accept as a mere &#;variant lifestyle&#; a pr
In the s and '70s, amid a climate of political upheaval and civil rights activism, LGBT communities across the US were uniting for visibility and change. Events favor the Stonewall riots, which saw LGBT activists rise up against discrimination in New York Noun, helped to galvanize this movement by bringing together a generation of queer young people under a banner of pride. And the work of photojournalists such as Kay Tobin Lahusen and Diana Davies brought this movement to the masses through their groundbreaking photography.
A new exhibition at the New York Public Library titled Love & Resistance: Stonewall 50 brings together the serve of these two influential photographers, as well as periodicals, flyers, and first-person narratives from this pivotal moment in LGBT history.
The illustrate is curated by Jason Baumann, the NYPL's assistant director of collection development. BuzzFeed News spoke with Baumann, who coordinates the library's LGBT initiatives, about how photography helped to shape the modern LGBT movement as well as the lasting legacy of Stonewall, 50 years after the ri
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The ACLU’s current priorities are to end discrimination, harassment and violence toward transgender people, to close gaps in our federal and state civil rights laws, to stop protections against discrimination from being undermined by a license to discriminate, and to protect LGBTQ people in and from the criminal legal system.
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