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This site commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. It also deals with the beginnings of the LGBT movement and how Stonewall was a catalyst for that.

This site described all of the women who contributed to the gay and lesbian movements as well as their accomplishments and the organization that they have founded or worked for. Radical lesbian Donna Gottschalk at New York City Gay Pride March, circa 1971 was one of the activist who was photographed holding a sign that reads: " I am your worse fear, I am our best fantasy" statement that was associated with rebellious and dissident behavior.

40 years of history, when Stonewall became the place lesbians and gays rebelled against the unfair treatment police and public officials were given. This was the turning point for gays and lesbians trying to gain a place in society. New York was the historical place where this movement took place.

Historically speaking World War II divided homosexuality and segregated many families and communities. The Stonewell Inn was a bar was the scenario of precious and irrevocable times that set the precedent or the platform for gays and lesbian trying to validate their civil rights. The one thing that made this process more difficult is the outbreak of AIDS and other venereal diseases.

Fear has always been a driving force when looking at people who are or act differently than most of us. Total acceptance of a person and its ways is freedom. I still believe that 1969 was a difficult year for gay and lesbians trying to fight for their rights. Let us not forget that we were still going by the Oregon laws and "sodomy" was strictly forbidden. New York Police harassed bar owners who sponsored this behavior.

One thing that I extract from this site is the fact that there was not acceptance for gay and lesbian people in the 60's. It is very apparent that there was a social struggle. Our own police and politicians fought against their rights. I cannot even begin to understand that riots and resentment was present when organized social movements were expressed. Jailed and violated gay and lesbians persisted to gain rights and like anything else in this society some sacrificed their own safety to send out the message that they were human beings that deserved respect.

This site talks of the progression of a fight that lasted almost a century. The struggle for women's rights had its phases, encouragements and lead activists. In a few sections, the suffragists, the influence voting rights being granted to African American men had. and the arrival of the 19th Amendment.

This site explains many components of the Stonewall Riots. I kept reading that this event occurred the year before, and was a huge motivation for, the Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day. It quotes a part chanted by the girls apart of the riots, speaks on how sexuality and its changes and expansions led to the formation of a subculture, and the beginning of gay rights and activism.

For over forty years gay pride parades have become tradition in several cities worldwide. They have evolved from radical protests to politicians and entertainers being a part of the event. Participants were very wary of the reaction they would get from non gays. Fear was an issue because back in the 70's It was not accepted to express that you were gay. The parade turned out to be a huge success therefore giving courage to supporters and participants to make this event tradition.

This site shows a really cool timeline from 1969 until 2010 of Gay Pride celebrations that have taken place in San Francisco. For instance, the information on the timeline consists of the temperature of the event, the amount of people that showed up, who was the mayor at the time and a picture of the flyer.

This site talks about a riot that took place in 1969 in New York City. Police raided the Stonewall Inn, which was a popular gay bar located in Greenwich Village section of New York. The streets erupted into violent protests that lasted about six days. The Stonewall Riots, as the incident became known, marked a major turning point in the modern Gay Rights movement. It was also sparked the first Gay Pride parade which took place a year later.

This site focuses on the first gay parade in 1970 in New York City. A group called the Gay Liberation Front created flyers for this historic event. This special day was called Liberation Day. The flyer's logo was an illustration of intertwined male on male and female on female symbols. The planning of this event took place shortly after the Stonewall Riots. The riots that took place at the Stonewall Inn in 1969 caused a split between gay activists. Some supported the violence and others were against the radical protests.

This is a great site that breifly sums up the Women's Right Movement from 1848 to 1920, although women fought for many years after. It describes the events that took place at the convention in Seneca Falls, NY where activists gathered to discuss many reforms. It was at this convention that Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted the treatise that called for women's right to vote and insisted that women be granted "immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the United States."

This site takes a look into women who attended college during the late 1800s and early 1900s. These women were determined to get an education. In 1870, only .7% of students were women. By 1920, it was still only 7.6%. It wasn't until the Women's Movement that woman made a significant appearance in colleges. I thought this site gave a good background to the presence of women in college before and leading up to the Women's Movement, which helps understand the impact the movement had.

A New Woman is defined as a woman who worked, thus had more economic independence, making her less reliant on her husband or father. Their jobs were generally low paying, and the settings were usually in factories or department stores. They fought to change the idea of male dominance. One woman discussed is Colleen Moore, one of the first flappers, or a woman who wore short skirts, bobbed hair, listened to jazz, and showed disdain for conventional dress and behavior. An interesting fact about this site is that it comes from Prof. Lavender's course in women's studies program through the College of Staten Island/CUNY.

During the Woman's Movement, their were several famous feminists. This site pulls together a list of famous feminists and gives a little background information on who they were. Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to graduate medical school at the top of her class and open her own clinic since others wouldn't hire her. Amelia Jenks Bloomer was a writer and editor for the first newspaper solely produced by woman, The Lily. Other feminists like Ruth Ginsburg and Emily Murphy, took to the courts to fight for equality for women. All these woman played an important role in achieving the equality and freedom woman have today.

This site is a collection of interview transcripts taken by Kelly Anderson of women describing their experiences during the Women's Movement. One woman by the name of Dolores Alexander describes how her father felt there was no need to educate her and refused to pay for her schooling while he paid for her brother's college in full. His reasoning was that she was a woman and was only going to have kids and had no need for an education. Another woman by the name of Virginia Apuzzo describes growing up as a lesbian in a world that held no tolerance for people like her. I think these transcripts give us a first hand look at what it was like to be in their shoes.

I though it important to clarify the main definitions of change that has taken place, embracing women, leading further to equality. This was prompt by the image of Donna Gottschalk, her viewpoint and voice from a female perspective, being a feminist. Feminist and its history refer to the re-reading of history from a female perspective. It is not the same as the history of feminism, which outlines the origins and evolution of the feminist movement. It also differs from women's history, which focuses on the role of women in historical events. The goal of a feminist and the history is to explore and illuminate the female viewpoint of history through rediscovery of female writers, artists, philosophers, etc., in order to recover and demonstrate the significance of women's voices and choices in the past. Two particular problems which feminist history attempts to address are the exclusion of women from the historical and philosophical tradition, and the negative characterization of women or the feminine therein; however, feminist history is not solely concerned with issues of gender per se, but rather with the reinterpretation of history in a more holistic and balanced manner. "If we take feminism to be that cast of mind that insists that the differences and inequalities between the sexes are the result of historical processes and are not blindly "natural," we can understand why feminist history has always had a dual mission-on the one hand to recover the lives, experiences, and mentalities of women from the condescension and obscurity in which they have been so unnaturally placed, and on the other to reexamine and rewrite the entire historical narrative to reveal the construction and workings of gender." -Susan Pedersen This site is then useful in exploring the image because Donna Gottschalk, has through writing, art and voice of the past address not only the exclusion of women in traditional history, but the negative characteristics placed on the LGBT communi

A report, released by the UN Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva, outlines "a pattern of human rights violations… that demands a response," and says governments have too often overlooked violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Homophobic and transphobic violence has been recorded in every region of the world, the report finds, and ranges from murder, kidnappings, assaults and rapes to psychological threats and arbitrary deprivations of liberty. LGBT people are often targets of organized abuse from religious extremists, paramilitary groups, neo-Nazis, extreme nationalists and others, as well as family and community violence, with lesbians and transgender women at particular risk. "Violence against LGBT persons tends to be especially vicious compared to other bias-motivated crimes," the report notes, citing data indicating that homophobic hate crimes often include "a high degree of cruelty and brutality." Violent incidents or acts of discrimination frequently go unreported because victims do not trust police, are afraid of reprisals or are unwilling to identify themselves as LGBT. The report - prepared in response to a request from the UN Human Rights Council earlier this year - draws from information included in past UN reporting, official statistics on hate crimes where there are available, and reporting by regional organizations and some non-governmental organizations (NGOs). In the report, Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, calls on countries to repeal laws that criminalize homosexuality, abolish the death penalty for offences involving consensual sexual relations, harmonize the age of consent for heterosexual and homosexual conduct, and enact comprehensive anti-discrimination laws. This site is useful in exploring the Donna Gottschalk image, because it not only embraces freedom of speech, and women inequalities but gender inequalities too. The photo t