Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 New York City.
1968 – Columbia University protests, occurred April 23 in response to the Vietnam War and segregation [19] 1969 – Stonewall riots, occurred June 28 through July 2 as a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBT) community in response to a police raid of the Stonewall Inn [20]
To protest Cuba and the United States' policies on homosexuality Homophile activists picketed the White House on April 17 and the United Nations [17] on the 18th after learning that Cuba was placing homosexuals in forced labor camps. [18] April 25, 1965: Philadelphia: To protest a restaurant's gay-exclusionary service policy
Village Voice staff photographer Fred McDarrah, whose work is being exhibited at the New-York Historical Society, captured several of the most important moments in LGBTQ history.
2016 – 2016 Sacramento riot, June 26, A confrontation between white nationalists and left-wing counter protesters at the California State Capitol. 2016 – Widespread protests erupt in response to two deaths at the hands of police, the Shooting of Alton Sterling and shooting of Philando Castile. New York City, Chicago, St. Paul, Baton Rouge ...
The police raid at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich village had taken place nine months earlier, on June 28, 1969. Although the bar patrons who fought back and the many who rioted and protested in the days following was something new, actions by the New York Police Department against gay bars did not stop with Stonewall and continued for months and years afterward. [1]
The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether Tennessee's Senate Bill 1 -- which prohibits certain types of medical treatments for minors with diagnosed gender dysphoria -- is constitutional ...
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 ...