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LGBTQ Heritage

LGBTQ Heritage KEN LUSTBADER Guest Editor, Co-Director of the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project Figure 1. Par ticipants of the Stonewall uprising in front of the bar, June 29, 1969. (Photo  Estate of Fred W. McDarrah. Used with permission) 13 6 PAGE 136 .................19315$ $CH1 04-23-19 16:02:01 PS This issue of Change Over Time, focused on LGBTQ heritage, is published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, a key turning point in the LGBTQ rights movement. It is ironic that Stonewall, a seedy, Mafia-run bar in New York City that had a brief run from 1967 to 1969, is now the most officially recognized LGBTQ historic site in the country, if not the world, given that twenty-five years ago the first attempt to secure federal recognition was rebuffed due to “lack of context.” Today, its significance, stemming from a police raid and its aftermath, is not in question, nor is the fact that it was popular with a diverse cross-section of the LGBTQ community in spite of the general oppressive climate of the era. What is not widely known is that the site’s significance is derived from events that occurred outside the bar on the un-gridded streets http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Change Over Time University of Pennsylvania Press

LGBTQ Heritage

Lustbader, Ken
Change Over Time , Volume 8 (2) – May 14, 2019
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KEN LUSTBADER Guest Editor, Co-Director of the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project Figure 1. Par ticipants of the Stonewall uprising in front of the bar, June 29, 1969. (Photo  Estate of Fred W. McDarrah. Used with permission) 13 6 PAGE 136 .................19315$ $CH1 04-23-19 16:02:01 PS This issue of Change Over Time, focused on LGBTQ heritage, is published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, a key turning point in the LGBTQ rights movement. It is ironic that Stonewall, a seedy, Mafia-run bar in New York City that had a brief run from 1967 to 1969, is now the most officially recognized LGBTQ historic site in the country, if not the world, given that twenty-five years ago the first attempt to secure federal recognition was rebuffed due to “lack of context.” Today, its significance, stemming from a police raid and its aftermath, is not in question, nor is the fact that it was popular with a diverse cross-section of the LGBTQ community in spite of the general oppressive climate of the era. What is not widely known is that the site’s significance is derived from events that occurred outside the bar on the un-gridded streets

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Published: May 14, 2019

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