Preface

Preface

Description

This short and affecting book captures an important slice of the Gay rights movement that is in danger of being lost to history. The 1969 “riot” at the Stonewall Inn was a turning point. Although I did not see the Stonewall happenings, they were the talk of Greenwich Villagers both Gay and straight, and they permanently changed the sense of self of Gay people, especially younger ones. But it is hardly known—except by a few scholars and those who lived through the events—that in 1980 and 1981 a small group of determined persons in Minneapolis fought, and eventually won, the right to hold a Gay pride block party on the city’s leading thoroughfare over the opposition of almost the entire Minneapolis political establishment.

Source Publication

Gay Pride v. The City of Minneapolis: The Gay Pride Block Party Case

Publication Date

2012

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