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This flyer describes the need for gays and lesbians to continue to fight oppression. IT is most likely form the mid 1970's. It cites Stonewall as a catalyst for the liberation movement. The author establishes Stonewall as the "first" time gays rose…

The Gay Revolution Party outlines its evaluation of oppressive social structures in this manifesto for the nascent political movement. Whether the Gay Revolution Party was an offshoot of the Gay Liberation Front or simply an ideological expression…

Image and text from Ecstasy Magazine (Gay Ecstasy) back page, #24. The photo is enhanced for use in this article. The subject is identified as Donna Gottschalk holding a sign at a Gay Liberation event in 1970. Although credit is not given in the…

An article in the Rat, Subterranean News entitled "Queen Power" chronicling the night of the Stonewall Riots. Included on the page is a caricature of a gay man captioned with a lisp. The reporter who wrote this account is not credited and neither is…

This commemorative plaque was placed on the site of the Stonewall Inn in 1977 by the "5th Ave. Gay Walk for Freedom" which may have been a local history tour group or perhaps the name given to the Pride march that year, being the last year supporters…

Images belonging to activist Craig Rodwell taken at the Mattachine Society Annual Reminder Picket line in Philadelphia, 1968. The Annual Reminder was held in front of Independence Hall each year from 1965 to 1969 on July 4th to demonstrate for equal…

Personal photograph belonging to Craig Rodwell, owner of the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop, of a billboard on 7th Avenue near Christopher Street in New York's Greenwich Village. Date and context of the image are unknown.

A flyer announcing an event organized by the Mattachine Society early on in the gay rights movement, probably 1970. The flyer talks about gay oppression and ends with "Mattachine=Militance" (sic). Mattachine was considered too concerned with…