In this episode of This Month in Queer History, Julian discusses the first activists ever arrested at a gay sit-in in New York City in 1970, Rockefeller Five, and the protests which led to their arrest.

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Sources:

Burroway, Jim. “Today In History, 1970: The ‘Rockefeller Five’ Arrested in GAA Zap.” Box Turtle Bulletin, 24 June 2016, www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2016/06/24/73810.

“Gay Activists Alliance Zap at the New York Republican State Committee Headquarters.” NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, www.nyclgbtsites.org/site/gay-activists-alliance-zap-at-the-new-york-republican-state-committee-headquarters. Accessed 8 Aug. 2021.

Neil Miller, Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present (New York: Vintage Books, 1995), 380.