TY - JOUR
AU - Kissack, Terence
AB -  I06/’ R AD I AL HISTORY R E’V I EW C math. While it is true that Stonewall was a riot, the failure to follow u p on the significance of Stonewall is small improvement over f Miller. Stonewall is eventually named in The Sixties. In the fall o 1969, Citlin’s friend, Marshall Bloom, committed suicide. To the surprise of his friends, ”nude-boy magazines” were found in his room. Some “speculated that [for Bloom) the implications of the Stonewall gay riot, the new message of gay pride, hadn’t sunk in.”2 This historiographical oversight is due in part, as Winifred Breines has suggested, to the tendency of many New Left historians to juxtapose the ”good sixties,” or the early period of antiwar and civil rights activism, with the ”bad sixties,” the final years of the decade characf terized by the turn towards totalizing critiques o ”the system,” a f f rejection o liberalism and electoral politics, and the advocacy o v i e lent revolutionary action. Histories built around this dichotomy construct a narrative that describes the sixties as “years of hope” that, with the break-up of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the slow collapse of the 
TI - Freaking Fag Revolutionaries: New York's Gay Liberation Front, 1969-1971
JF - Radical History Review
DO - 10.1215/01636545-1995-62-105
DA - 1995-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/duke-university-press/freaking-fag-revolutionaries-new-york-s-gay-liberation-front-1969-1971-m4D80Hu5Nz
SP - 105
VL - 1995
IS - 62
DP - DeepDyve
ER -