2/1/2024 0 Comments Phoenix gay pride dressStonewall works just as well as “Make love, not war.” And why not? All political movements need slogans and symbols. It looms so large in the contemporary gay imagination that it has become, like rainbow flags and pink triangles, a worldwide signifier of same-sex community. Stonewall, however, has become an epochal milestone. The two most-attended events in New York in the 1960s - the 1964 World’s Fair (held in the aptly named Flushing Meadows) and the visit of Pope Paul in 1965 - have faded from most people’s memories. If you put together all the people who claimed to have been at the Stonewall Inn on the evenings of June 27, 28, and 29, when fighting broke out between New York City police and the enraged denizens of Christopher Street following a raid on the gay bar, you would have enough people to fill Yankee Stadium every night of a World Series. I AM THE only person I know who was openly gay in 1969, lived in the tri-state area, and does not claim to have been at the Stonewall riots. The Boston Phoenix Gay and Lesbian SectionĮven for an old radical, there’s nothing really wrong with Pride as a party - until AIDS takes the person who taught you to see it that way
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