gay power

Queer members of the New Left made coming out into a clarion call as they demanded gay power and liberation in the late 1960s, and it has remained a key strategy of queer activists ever since — a declaration not just of pride, but of purpose and personhood.

The words "Gay Pride" and "Gay Power" were scrawled on the boarded-up windows of the Stonewall.

Marchers trooped to Central Park, chanting “Gay power!” and “Gay and proud!”

“This is now the official Gay Power Stance,” one of their captions read.

Mitchell, though, was struck by it and by the crowd that gathered the night after the raid, calling for gay power as another tense standoff developed with police.