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    WHAT STONEWALL SPARKED

    LGBTQ activists reflect on 50 years of change
    by Charles Kaiser Jul 01, 2019 4 minutes
    Drucker, a trans woman, is an artist whose work explores themes of gender and sexuality. She was also a producer on Transparent.

    Timing makes history. If the police raid on the Stonewall Inn had happened earlier, it probably would have been instantly forgotten, like so many other attacks on surreptitious gay meeting places. The febrile feeling on that last weekend in June, 50 years ago, was possible only in the final year of the 1960s. That decade’s spiritual alchemy was essential to what is remembered as the opening shot in the gay revolution: a combination of everything from the Pill to LSD, from Bob Dylan to the Beatles, from the civil rights movement to the women’s movement to the battle to end the war in Vietnam. Conventional wisdom had become a non sequitur; that sea change allowed this last transformation.

    In the year before Stonewall, Americans experienced unprecedented sensory overload. The

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