50 years of the Stonewall uprising in pictures

The New York Public Library 's exhibition Love & Resistance chronicles the emergence of LGBTQ activism with over 150 photographs

By Smita Tripathi

Photo Credit: New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division

Photo by Diana Davies, Stonewall Inn, 1969

Photo Credit: New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division

Photo by Diana Davies, Women embracing at Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, 1976

Photo Credit: New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division

Photo by Diana Davies, Gay Liberation Front marches on Times Square, New York, 1970

Photo Credit: New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division

Homosexuals Are Different…” Mattachine Society of New York, 1960s

Photo Credit: New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division

Black and Blue vol. 1, no. 5, New York Motor Bike Club, September 1967

Photo Credit: New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division

Photo by Diana Davies, Martha Shelley sells Gay Liberation Front paper during Weinstein Hall demonstration, 1970

Photo Credit: New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division

Photo by Diana Davies, “Ida,” member of the Gay Liberation Front and Lavender Menace, 1970

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