1960's and 70's
The media publicity surrounding these acts of revolt against oppression and societal expectations gave a name and a rallying point for queer people who had before been mostly isolated and confused.
In the 1970's the first comic books by out lesbian women were published by Roberta Gregory and Mary Wings, and calls for community only continued to grow. The 70's represented a massive surge of queer activism and revolution as queer people found each other and began to build out community, from queer unions on college campuses, to drag and ballroom culture in major cities.