Women's Studies 1021F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Stonewall Riots, Gay Bar, After Stonewall
23 Nov 2016
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Women"s studies lecture 5: aids & the work of memorialization. June 28, 1969 police raided a gay bar in greenwich village, nyc (stonewall inn) Led to a series of spontaneous and occasionally violent demonstrations by the members of the gay community (led to gay pride) Stonewall riots occurred in the context of a stronger counter-cultural movement in the usa (civil rights movement 1955-1968) After stonewall riots, gay and lesbian communities split into two separate cultures. Gay men develop a very sex-positive culture in gay bars and bathhouses, celebrating coming out". Lesbians organize more around a political, community-oriented culture, intimately connected to feminism. Lesbian separatism: belief in a different way of life away from utopian. Developed, as gay liberation was perceived as ignoring women. Lesbianism was therefore seen as a political, as much as a sexual, identity. Mid 1970"s the movement became known as cultural feminism". Nonconventional sexualities and the sex wars of the 1980"s.
