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May 9, 2024 · Stonewall riots, series of violent confrontations that began in the early hours of June 28, 1969, between police and gay rights activists outside the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City. As the riots progressed, an international gay rights movement was born.
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Sep 15, 2023 · 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 17, 2019 · 17 June 2019. NY Daily News Archive / Getty. Tensions rose on the street after the raid. By Tom Geoghegan. BBC News, Washington. When half a dozen police officers raided a Mafia-run gay bar on a...
Jun 28, 2019 · Robert Bryan joined the crowd outside the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969, when a police raid took an unexpected turn. Here’s what they had to say. What was the Stonewall Inn?
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Jun 28, 2019 · 1. The first documented U.S. gay rights organization was founded in Chicago in 1924. How the Stonewall Riots Sparked a Movement. Henry Gerber, a German immigrant, founded the Society for Human...
Feb 22, 2022 · In the early hours of 28 June 1969, New York City police raided a gay bar in Greenwich Village called the Stonewall Inn. The raid sparked a riot between the bar-goers and neighbourhood residents against the police, who were violently handling and arresting employees and patrons from the bar.
