I wasn't quite at Stonewall, but it changed my life
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Tim Gay
6/25/09
I remember when Judy Garland died but I don't recall Stonewall. After all, I was not quite 14 back in June 1969.
But a year and a couple of months later, in the fall of 1970, I was voraciously reading about homosexuality, the Stonewall Inn Riots, the Gay Liberation Organization, the Mattachine Society and Judy Garland — all thanks to a high school librarian who quietly stocked the shelves with "liberal" books and magazines.
And less than 10 years later, I was 24, living with a boyfriend in New York City, and suddenly enjoying the excitement of what I now know was the end of the early gay liberation era.