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
Famous Queer Visitors at IU and in Bloomington
Women's Spaces and Lesbians in Feminism
a room of one's own ad, editorial drawing
Bloomington's Early Queer Conferences and Gatherings
invitation, kameny photo
Gay and Lesbian Academe at Indiana University
picture of martha vicinus, gay studies excerpt, homosexuality course
film poster
Bloomington Human Rights Ordinance
coffee house ad
Queer Community Organizations of the 1970s
new horizons poster/newsletter
