By the time of the June 1969 Stonewall uprising, the homophile movement was nearly two decades old and there were between 50 to 60 organizations across the country.īut Stonewall was definitely the start of something -and something big, because one year later, when LGBTQ people gathered at Sheridan Square to mark the uprising’s first anniversary and the start of the Christopher Street Liberation Day March, there were 1,500 organizations. Episode Notesįrom Eric Marcus : After listening to Making Gay History’s first two Stonewall 50 episodes, you know that Stonewall isn’t where it all began.
Credit: Photo by Diana Davies, courtesy of Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. Donna Gottschalk-lesbian, feminist, activist, photographer, artist-at the first Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day march in New York City, June 28, 1970.