Get help with access Institutional accessĪccess to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. As well as charting this post-1968 moment, the chapter also considers those who still hold true to the revolutionary values of 1968. This more liberal, integrationist stance has, in many ways, come to define the gay rights movement in the years since Stonewall, and helped deliver some of its signature triumphs. Yet, within months of the Stonewall riots, such militancy was already on the wane, as groups like the Gay Activists Alliance emerged to lead the fight for full equality and first-class citizenship rights. For a time, gay liberationists echoed the activists of 1968 by denouncing American imperialism and calling for revolution. The gay rights movement of the 1970s embodied the animating spirit of late 1960s activism, with its emphasis on the revolutionary potential of personal politics embrace of direct action and street theatre commitment to building alternative institutions and idealistic faith that a more equal world was possible. This chapter considers the historical significance of 1968 for the gay rights movement in the context of the Stonewall Riots of June 1969.
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