| of their participation in stonewall, | but they were really major activists |at the time and were on the front| lines of all of the demonstrations. so the whole community came together, then? yeah, both this new generation of activists and also the older l generation of activists and lesbian activists, gay activists and transgender activists. oh, yes lesbians unite, yeah. and so here you see thousands- of people who were willing to come out of the closet and be part of this political movement. i it s hoped that exhibitions like this will help keep the memory of what happened alive and inspire future generations. i m 27 this is the first time i m seeing many of these pieces. why should people my age, my generation, care about this exhibition? in this internet age of people - liking things on facebook and a kind of internet activism, i think it s very hard for people ito realise the real oppression thati people faced in the 19605 and 705, and also that they were able to make