Stonewall might have been the flashpoint of the LGBTQ Pride movement — but it wasn't the beginning
Collections at the New York Public Library. He’s spent the last three years curating the library’s current exhibit,a collection of photography, flyers, and political ephemera from the first three decades of the gay civil rights movement. The NYPL’s Gay and Lesbian Collection is the largest of its kind — home to the archives of two of the first out lesbian photojournalists, Kay Tobin Lahusen and Diana Davies, as well as many of the country’s largest gay rights organizations.
He hopes the exhibit helps to place the Stonewall Riots in the decades-long arc of gay civil rights activism. By the time the riots erupted, homophile organizations like the Mattachine Society and the Daughters of Bilitis had been picketing employment offices, holding panel discussions, distributing newsletters and building grassroots networks for almost 20 years.
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