Jackie “Hormona” — whose real name was maybe Jack Daniel Whitehall — is famous for participating in the Stonewall riots. He is sometimes credited with starting these riots.
He appears on the famous photograph taken during the first night of the riots.
John Lauritsen took photograph showing Jackie in 1970. Jackie is shown on a tree in Bryant Park.
Disco, polyester, Nixon and Watergate, equal rights, the "new right", the rise of terrorism . . . oh what a decade. Not much was resolved but a lot happened!
Portrait photographs and paintings of our loved ones and ancestors.
Before photos we had paintings of family members - most usually these were reserved for the well off. The era of modern photography began with the daguerreotype, in 1839. Since the advent of photogr...