This was presented at SEU's S.O.U.R.C.E conference.

1. Coming Out Together:
An Analysis of the Stonewall Riots
Using Ideological Criticism
By: Melinda O’Cañas

4. Oppression

5. Importance of this study

6. Literature Review

7. Literature Review
• David Carter’s Stonewall:
The Riots that Sparked the
Gay Revolution

8. Literature Review
• David Carter’s Stonewall:
The Riots that Sparked the
Gay Revolution
• “...led to the inclusion of
sexual orientation as a
protected category in the civil
and human rights
movement” (267).

9. Literature Review
• David Carter’s Stonewall:
The Riots that Sparked the
Gay Revolution
• “...led to the inclusion of
sexual orientation as a
protected category in the civil
and human rights
movement” (267).
• Political change with the
birth of gay liberation
movement.

11. • Martin Duberman’s Stonewall

12. • Martin Duberman’s Stonewall
• Full story in vivid detail
through the stories of 6
individuals

13. • Martin Duberman’s Stonewall
• Full story in vivid detail
through the stories of 6
individuals
• “...the word resonates with
images of insurgency and self-
realization and occupies a
central place in the iconography
of gay & lesbian
awareness” (14).

15. • Jennifer Smith’s The Gay Rights
Movement

16. • Jennifer Smith’s The Gay Rights
Movement
• Society is still looked at as a
sexually segregated
community

17. • Jennifer Smith’s The Gay Rights
Movement
• Society is still looked at as a
sexually segregated
community
• “...we hope that gay power will
become a call for sexual
integration and that the young
activists will read, study, and
make themselves acquainted
with all the facts...” (66).

18. Ideological Criticism
• Set of ideas that organize a group or society’s
understanding of reality or code of meanings
that shape how a group of people sees the
world - Stuart Hall

19. Analysis

20. Analysis
• Theoretical Approach:
Postmoderism

21. Analysis
• Theoretical Approach:
Postmoderism
• Postmodern theories based on
notion that our culture has
moved into a new phase

22. Analysis
• Theoretical Approach:
Postmoderism
• Postmodern theories based on
notion that our culture has
moved into a new phase
• Stonewall Riots represents how
our society has shaped our
culture; the source of progress
leading to a new phase.

23. Conclusion

24. Conclusion
• Gain gay civil & human rights through
acts of creating symbolic meaning

25. Conclusion
• Gain gay civil & human rights through
acts of creating symbolic meaning
• Events have shaped where were are
today as a society

26. Conclusion
• Gain gay civil & human rights through
acts of creating symbolic meaning
• Events have shaped where were are
today as a society
• Looking back 40 years ago