Abstract
June 1977 marked the eighth anniversary of the Stonewall riots, the event that gave birth to the modern gay rights movement. Celebrated as Gay Pride Day in lesbian and gay communities across the nation, the anniversary was marked with marches and rallies marking the progress achieved toward gay rights the year before. In New York and San Francisco, the largest lesbian and gay communities in the nation were augmented by thousands of visitors in town for the celebrations. For many of these visitors, often closeted lesbians and gay men from small towns and other cities, it was a time to join with other lesbians and gay men to openly celebrate their sexuality.
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Fejes, F. (2008). St. Paul, Wichita, Eugene. In: Gay Rights and Moral Panic. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230614680_6
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