"Hairpin Drop Heard Around the World"
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Title
"Hairpin Drop Heard Around the World"
Subject
An account of the Stonewall Riots entitled "Hairpin Drop Heard Around the World" written by Dick Leitsch, President of the Mattachine Society in 1969.
Description
One of the most well known written accounts of the Stonewall riot, with details and description that ultimately became accepted as part of the Stonewall narrative. The account only briefly describes the first night of the bar raid at Stonewall Inn and continues with more detail about the following evening and the organized effort to demonstrate and protest in the streets around Sheridan Square and Christopher Park. This account was distributed by Mattachine in the days following the first weekend of unrest. "Hairpin drop" was a slang term for letting people know you are gay through a subtle hint.
Creator
Dick Leitsch
Source
LGBT Community Center National History Archive. Bob Kohler Collection #110.
Publisher
NA
Date
1969
Contributor
Dick Leitsch
Rights
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Relation
Bob Kohler Collection #110 of the LGBT Center National History Archive. Box 1, Folder 17.
Format
JPEG
Language
English
Type
text
Identifier
IMG_0630-2 and IMG_0631-2
Coverage
NA
Text Item Type Metadata
Text
As shown in facsimile
Original Format
Text
Files
Collection
Citation
Dick Leitsch, “"Hairpin Drop Heard Around the World",” Stonewall: Riot, Rebellion, Activism and Identity, accessed December 5, 2023, https://stonewallhistory.omeka.net/items/show/31.
Comments
Bob Skiba
Is the last page of Leitsch's "Hairpin Drop" article anywhere? Thanks!
Maisie Quinn
The entire article is in The Stonewall Reader, which is a collection of articles written before, during, and after the Stonewall Uprising. It's all stuff from the NYC Public Library's archives, so you might also be able to find the full article there.
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