FROM STONEWALL TO THE AIDS EPIDEMIC: 1969-1981
Gay and lesbian life in Bloomington in the summer of 1969 responded to the same currents that moved similar communities nationwide. The Stonewall Riots did not result in a sudden break with past, but they did inspire a new wave of activism, and new forms of organizing, that gradually gathered strength. Within a year of Stonewall, Bloomington had a Gay Liberation Front organization; over the next decade it experienced many of the same successes and failures that characterized queer experience elsewhere in the United States: a new sense of pride and visibility, the first wave of community-based service organizations, contentious intra-community struggles over sexism and racism, disagreements about politics, and a serious right-wing backlash that overturned some early civil rights victories.
Gay Liberation Front in Bloomington
Christine Jorgensen Visits the IU Campus
Women's Spaces and Lesbians in Feminism
Early Gay Awareness Conferences
Cutter Homoerotics in Breaking Away
Bloomington Human Rights Ordinance
Homophobic Harassment in the Community
