Trinity by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The movement’s success, the author argues, came partly because of the necessity to fight on such elemental and moral grounds. In 1969, the year of the Stonewall uprising, gay Americans “were considered sinful by the church, their sexual practices were criminal in forty-nine states, the psychiatrists said they were crazy, and the State Department held that they were subversive.” Linda Hirshman tracks the progress of the gay rights movement starting several decades before Stonewall, but these smears against gay equality and citizenship form what she calls “the four horsemen” against which gays had to struggle to define themselves as moral, legal, sane, and patriotic. ![]()
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