After the rebellion, MSNY seemed even more out of touch as it urged gays and lesbians to temper their demands, avoid more uprisings, and continue working within the system to achieve reform.Īlthough some budding gay liberationists attempted to work within Mattachine through its recently formed Action Committee, they found themselves increasingly at odds with the organization’s reformist priorities. Radical gays and lesbians had little affinity to the Mattachine Society of New York (MSNY), the civil rights group that had dominated the gay political scene before Stonewall. GLF tapped into the radical sentiments brewing among young, countercultural, and political gays and lesbians in New York City-and mobilized the energy and eagerness for political action that many felt in the days following Stonewall. Within a month after the rebellion at the Stonewall Inn, gays and lesbians organized a new group: the Gay Liberation Front (GLF). “The subjects of Steven Dansky's photos look us right in the eye, and his camera skills allow us to look into their souls.GLFers at the first Christopher Street Liberation Day March. Writer, activist, and co-editor of Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay Liberation “The images record history in a vital and meaningful way with some of the mid-20th century’s most historic moments.”
In a half-dozen photo essays published in The Gay & Lesbian Review (many of them collected in On Bearing Witness: Images and Reflections of the LGBT Movement (1969-1971), Dansky has shared this visual journey with our readers, providing insightful discussion to elucidate the photographs at hand.”Įditor-in-chief, Gay and Lesbian Review/Worldwide
The photographs that he’s collected and archived tell the story of how a ragtag group of gay hippies became a liberation movement in the early 1970’s. “Steven Dansky has documented in photographs the origins of one of the great civil rights movements of our time, the struggle for gay and lesbian equality.
Images and Reflections of the LGBT Movement 1969-1971
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