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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.
The Stonewall riots (also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, Stonewall revolution, [57] 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.
Although the Stonewall riots (also called the Stonewall uprising) on June 28, 1969, are generally considered the impetus of the modern gay liberation movement, [1] [2] a number of demonstrations of civil resistance took place prior to that date.
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 ...
1969 – People's Park Riots, May, Berkeley, California; 1969 – 1969 Greensboro uprising, May 21–25, Greensboro, North Carolina; 1969 – Cairo disorders, May–December, Cairo, Illinois; 1969 – Stonewall riots, June 28 – July 2, New York City, New York; 1969 – 1969 York Race Riot, July 17–24, York, Pennsylvania
The Stonewall Inn in the gay village of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, site of the June 28, 1969 Stonewall riots, the cradle of the modern LGBTQ rights movement. [1] [2] [3]This is a timeline of notable events in the history of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community in the United States.
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.
An even later occurrence that is also said to have been the beginning of the movement for Gay Rights was the Stonewall Riots. On June 27, 1969 New York's Stonewall Inn bar was raided by police. Though this was a regular incident in gay bars like Stonewall, the reaction of its patrons, as they refused to leave and clashed with the raiding police ...