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DETAILS: Original pinback button issued by Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee (CSLDC), Held June 23, 1973 at Washington Square Park, Manhattan.
BACKGROUND: The Stonewall riots, also known as the Stonewall Rebellion, were a series of protests by members of the LGBT community in response to a police raid that began in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village NYC. Patrons of the Stonewall, other Village lesbian and gay bars, fought back when the police became violent. The riots are widely considered the watershed event that transformed the gay liberation movement and the twentieth-century fight for LGBT rights. To accommodate the interests of the many different groups participating, the Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee named the days leading up to the march Gay Pride Week.
In 1973, the New York rally was held at Washington Square Park in Manhattan. At the time, the gay and lesbian community showed rifts. In 1973, lesbian feminists had begun to speak out about misogyny enacted within the movement. At the time some of their argument centered around drag, or what they called “the impersonation or mockery of women by men for entertainment or profit.” Drag had its place in the history of the lesbian and gay movement because queens were there the night of the Stonewall Riots. In the public discussion of drag though, the lived experiences of transgender identities who did not see themselves as drag queens were hard to convey. Lesbian feminists like Jean O’Leary saw transgender women like Sylvia Rivera as disruptive to their movement, even calling Sylvia a “man in women’s clothing” at the Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade. This rift is made clear in the video below, where Jean reads a statement about these sentiments to the crowd at the rally.
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GAY RIGHTS BUTTONS
Circa 1950-1979
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