although there are -- as historian richard meyer tells us, there are only 17 people who showed up to take the photograph for this image. the gay liberation front, which had emerged as a self-proclaimed revolutionary organization after stonewall, had a membership of about 150 people at the time and they only managed to get about 17 to show up to take the picture for this image. there are probably a few other people left out of this image on "the ladder." so the number is not all that different, but we have a different display of them. they are filling the frame more fully in the image for the gay liberation front. they seem, even though there may not be that many more people actually there, they seen to be -- they seem to be a larger number of people. is there anything else that you notice that is similar or different? here in the middle. >> in the reading, it talked about in "the ladder," the woman was wearing a skirt and the men were wearing suits, and they were conforming to gender identity to make it seem like they were with society. and they were not -- that they were at the same

richard meyer points out that this is an idealized notion of what people wanted the movement to look like. and that the movement is an incredibly male-dominated movement, both in the numbers of membership and leadership at the time. it is a kind of utopian idea of what gay liberation might look like. image talksn this about home a file groups picket. we have a difference in any. they are calling themselves homo phile groups, which many societies developed to sort of distance themselves from the sexual connotations of homosexuality and the medicalized ideas that characterize them as deviants. rms, have taken the greek te homo meaning same, and philia -- anyone goes with it means? love. they are focused on love of people of the same sex. homosexualather than -- calling attention to the same kind of love you note is being displayed by the gay liberation front. but they are doing it as a way of distancing themselves from accusations of abnormality. whereas the gay liberation front is embracing those accusations of abnormality and finding the kind of revolutionary possibility for overturn