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Stonewall (officially Stonewall Equality Limited) is an LGBTQ rights charity in the United Kingdom, founded in 1989 and named after the Stonewall Inn because of the Stonewall riots. The Stonewall Awards is an annual event the charity has held since 2006 to recognize people who have affected the lives of British lesbian, gay, and bisexual people.
Initially, protesters targeted monuments related to the Confederate States of America [citation needed]. As the scope of the protests broadened to include other forms of systemic racism , many statues of other controversial figures such as Christopher Columbus , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Junípero Serra , Juan de Oñate and Kit Carson were torn down or removed.
1970 – Hard Hat Riot, occurred May 8 in a confrontation between construction workers and protesters of the Vietnam War, the Kent State shootings, and the U.S. invasion of Cambodia [21] 1973 – Shooting of Clifford Glover , occurred on April 28 and led to several days of rioting in the South Jamaica neighborhood [ 22 ]
New York City's first gay pride march, then called Christopher Street Liberation Day, was held on June 28, 1970, the first anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall uprising.
Marsha P. Johnson (August 24, 1945 – July 6, 1992) was an American gay liberation [6] [7] activist and self-identified drag queen. [8] [9] Known as an outspoken advocate for gay rights, Johnson was one of the prominent figures in the Stonewall uprising of 1969.
George Floyd protests Part of the United States racial unrest (2020–2023) and the Black Lives Matter movement Clockwise from top: Protesters in Minneapolis where George Floyd was murdered and the unrest began Police and National Guard at a protest in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Bystanders and firefighters at a torched street in Minneapolis Protest near the Multnomah County Justice Center in ...
Earlier Wednesday, Cantrell told reporters that the driver was on a mission to kill as many people as possible. "He was hell-bent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did . . .
Among the 14 people killed in the New Orleans attack: a warehouse manager, an account executive, an aspiring nurse and two loving parents.