Difference between revisions of "Suzanne Poli: a brief history"
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Suzanne Poli, A Brooklyn native, moved to an apartment building on Christopher Street on January 19,1967 with her husband and young daughter. | Suzanne Poli, A Brooklyn native, moved to an apartment building on Christopher Street on January 19,1967 with her husband and young daughter. | ||
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On a night in 1969 she experienced a turbulent night that would become known as The Stonewall Riots. "I heard a noise and a ruckus and all this fighting. I was very much a freedom fighter. When I realized this was because of an injustice going on, I felt my own ideas of equality and justice were being tampered with." | On a night in 1969 she experienced a turbulent night that would become known as The Stonewall Riots. "I heard a noise and a ruckus and all this fighting. I was very much a freedom fighter. When I realized this was because of an injustice going on, I felt my own ideas of equality and justice were being tampered with." | ||
| − | A year later the first Christopher Street Liberation Day March made its debut, and Poli shot the event from her apartment window | + | |
| + | A year later the first ''Christopher Street Liberation Day March'' made its debut, and Poli shot the event from her apartment window and except for two or three parades has shot most of the parades from 1970-1984. | ||
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| + | Poli had many gay friends in the 1960's but says communication and protest were very different and much scarier in the earlier days of what is now knows as the ''Heritage of Pride Parade''. "When I talked to my gay friends back then, there was an austere quiet. There was a hush but also an excitement because we knew it was the beginning of something important." | ||
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| + | In those earlier days the marchers were not gay and lesbians, she says, but rather groups of feminists,socialists and students | ||
Revision as of 11:10, 9 May 2009
Introduction
Suzanne Poli, A Brooklyn native, moved to an apartment building on Christopher Street on January 19,1967 with her husband and young daughter.
On a night in 1969 she experienced a turbulent night that would become known as The Stonewall Riots. "I heard a noise and a ruckus and all this fighting. I was very much a freedom fighter. When I realized this was because of an injustice going on, I felt my own ideas of equality and justice were being tampered with."
A year later the first Christopher Street Liberation Day March made its debut, and Poli shot the event from her apartment window and except for two or three parades has shot most of the parades from 1970-1984.
Poli had many gay friends in the 1960's but says communication and protest were very different and much scarier in the earlier days of what is now knows as the Heritage of Pride Parade. "When I talked to my gay friends back then, there was an austere quiet. There was a hush but also an excitement because we knew it was the beginning of something important."
In those earlier days the marchers were not gay and lesbians, she says, but rather groups of feminists,socialists and students
