It is good to remember that it was through struggle, an uprising-like action, including the use of violence, that gays won theirs rights, not because "our Liberal" regime granted them those rights as many today think.
It was through people's own struggle, not like today's missionaries touring Asia and Africa, lecturing gay people about "their identity" as gays.
It was withinin a context of the war in Vietnam, the Civil Rights Movement, and the influence of other militant groups such as the Black Panthers'.
It was within socio-economic conditions of a fully developed capitalist relations, not a Uganda-like one or a dictatorship. Historian John D'Emilio provides good insights on the subject.
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The BBC calls it "a fury years in the making", i.e. a movement. But it chose a title that reduces it to a "riot"!!
Broidy thinks something has been lost in the process. "I think it's much more powerful without the floats and without Citibank and American Airlines. Yes, it's a sign of progress but in a distinctly capitalist market."
A fury years in the making
It was through people's own struggle, not like today's missionaries touring Asia and Africa, lecturing gay people about "their identity" as gays.
It was withinin a context of the war in Vietnam, the Civil Rights Movement, and the influence of other militant groups such as the Black Panthers'.
It was within socio-economic conditions of a fully developed capitalist relations, not a Uganda-like one or a dictatorship. Historian John D'Emilio provides good insights on the subject.
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The BBC calls it "a fury years in the making", i.e. a movement. But it chose a title that reduces it to a "riot"!!
Broidy thinks something has been lost in the process. "I think it's much more powerful without the floats and without Citibank and American Airlines. Yes, it's a sign of progress but in a distinctly capitalist market."
A fury years in the making
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