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Stonewall Uprising begins with a general overview of societal attitudes toward homosexuality in 1960s America. Archival footage from locally produced television programs, public service films warning of the "dangers" of homosexuality, an episode of CBS Reports titled "The Homosexuals", and interviews with Stonewall participants and observers Virginia Apuzzo, Martin Boyce, Raymond Castro, Danny ...
The Stonewall riots (also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, Stonewall revolution, [3] or simply Stonewall) were a series of spontaneous riots and demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City.
The Stonewall Inn was Mafia-owned and there were 200 people inside when the raid began shortly after midnight with plainclothes officers presenting a search warrant citing the claim that liquor was being sold illegally at the bar. Despite orders for all patrons to line up and provide identification, several customers refused and a number of ...
What is Stonewall? The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in the heart of New York City’s Greenwich Village, has been cited as the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ rights movement.The bar, opened in 1967 ...
The uprising that took place at The Stonewall Inn 51 years ago this week was the spark that set off a powder keg, paving the way for acceptance and equality of gay, lesbian and transgender people ...
Trans women played a key role in the Stonewall uprising, including activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, who would become pioneers of the nascent gay liberation movement. Though some gay ...
Frédéric André Sargeant (born July 29, 1948) [1] is a French-American gay rights activist and a former lieutenant with the Stamford, Connecticut Police Department. [2] He participated in each of the nights of the 1969 Stonewall riots and was one of the four co-founders of the first NYC Pride March march in Manhattan in 1970.
For those who don’t know, the six-day Stonewall uprising began in the early morning of June 28, 1969, when police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay tavern in New York City’s Greenwich Village.