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Beginnings: post-WWII
San Francisco was the point of departure and reentry
for many men involved in the war...Rather than returning home, many soldiers
(and particularly those dishonorably discharged for homosexuality) stayed
or settled in San Francisco after their service ended.
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Left Coast Stonewall: 1960s
In the 1960s, the gay movement absorbed the profound
and successive influences of the civil rights, anti-war, feminist and
counterculture movements...
But it took several years for these elements to converge
and for a grassroots gay community to adopt a civil rights agenda and
burst into the forum of national politics.
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GLBT Mecca(s): 1970s
The years between 1970 and 1975 brought more breakthroughs
in the area of gay rights than those of the previous two decades combined.
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Murder of
Harvey Milk/
White Night Riots
The one thing that was clear and powerful about Harvey
was that he was hard to control. He went to institutions of power without
a sense of "What do I have to do to get people to be nice to me?"
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Fighting Back:
1980s and 1990s
Groups like Aids Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT-UP)
and Queer Nation came into being. Many of their demonstrations shocked
the world into knowing and realizing that AIDS was not exclusively a gay
man's disease and that quick government action and research was needed
to find a cure.
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