For instance, we often think that gay men were isolated from each other because there was no visible subculture that they could join. In Gay New York, George Chauncey refutes myths about gay life before Stonewall that persist among queer people. In our collective imagination Stonewall has become, as its name suggests, a monumental wall of stone: sedimented, unmovable, something we can perceive clearly–but perhaps at the expense of the queer lives that came before and the legacies that continued after it. In the United States, we think of Stonewall as the beginning of the modern gay liberation movement. This year, we commemorate the courageous queers who rebelled against police brutality and the raiding of their spaces. The uprising on Christopher Street was of vital significance for public queer life.
This year we celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Stonewall and with good reason.
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