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Mar 7, 2024 · In 1969, a series of riots over police action against The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, changed the landscape of homosexual society quite literally overnight. Since then, the term 'Stonewall' itself has become almost synonymous with the struggle for gay rights.
Jun 13, 2019 · June 27-28, 1969: Stonewall crowd erupts after police arrest and rough up patrons. After midnight on an unseasonably hot Friday night, the Stonewall was packed when eight plainclothes or...
Jun 1, 2023 · June 01, 2023. • 8 min read. In 1969, police raids of gay bars in Manhattan followed a template. Officers would pour in, threatening and beating bar staff and clientele. Patrons would pour out,...
Jun 27, 2019 · Colleen Walsh. Harvard Staff Writer. June 27, 2019 long read. Protesters took to the streets in the aftermath of the Stonewall riots in lower Manhattan in the summer of 1969. Stonewall marked a turning point in the gay rights movement. Leonard Fink/The LGBT Community Center National History Archive.
Jun 28, 2019 · The Stonewall Riots made clear that the LGBTQ movement needed to be loud and visible to demand change.
Jun 17, 2019 · Stonewall: A riot that changed millions of lives. When half a dozen police officers raided a Mafia-run gay bar on a hot New York night 50 years ago, little did they know their actions would...
ARTICLE. How the Stonewall Uprising Ignited the Modern LGBTQ Rights Movement. Patrons of the Stonewall Inn were resigned to police raids on gay bars. But on June 28, 1969, they resisted in a rebellion that changed history. Grades. 9 - 12+. Subjects. Social Studies, Sociology, U.S. History, Storytelling. Photograph. Celebrating Stonewall.
