I was at the Stonewall Riots 50 years ago, the beginning of the current gay rights movement. A crowded gay bar had just been raided, a reminder of the recent past. Certainly the era was rich in rebellion – the protests against the Vietnam war, the Black Power movement and the women’s movement. I even saw Fellini on a snowy night being led into a Sheridan Square gay bar on a prospecting tour. They have given new life to a movement that in big-city America at least had become dull, uninspired and materialistic.

Source: The Guardian June 19, 2019 04:52 UTC