1969: The Year of Gay Liberation

In the wake of the Stonewall Riots on June 28, 1969, gays and lesbians in New York City radicalized in an unprecedented way, founding activist groups—Gay Liberation Front, Radicalesbians, Gay Activists Alliance, and Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries—that created a new vision: Gay Liberation. This panel exhibition charts the emergence of this new vision through reproductions of photographs and original documents from the Library's Manuscripts and Archives Division that show the evolution of Gay Liberation in New York City from the Stonewall Riots to the first LGBT Pride March—Christopher Street Liberation Day 1970.

This traveling panel exhibition is adapted from an exhibition of the same name that was on view in The New York Public Library's Stephen A. Schwarzman Building in June 2009, on the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.

Initial funding for The New York Public Library's LGBT initiative was provided by TimeWarner.