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1973 New York Gay Rights Demonstration
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-03 at 3.13.21 PM_thumb.png2023-04-03T22:14:06+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4911Demonstration at City Hall, New York (from left: Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, Jane Vercaine, Barbara Deming, Kady Vandeurs, Carol Grosberg, and others), 1973. Many of the people who were participating in the Stonewall riots were younger people — youths who were influenced by American counterculture, antiwar movements, and who had very different expectations of what activism was about compared to older generations. This was a different ideological framework that was much more confrontational and influenced by anarchism, Marxism, and civil rights protests.plain2023-04-03T22:14:06+00:001973Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49