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Stonewall Uprising was shown on PBS's American Experience series on April 25, 2011, as season 23's episode 10. [11] The film was released on DVD on April 26, 2011, [12] and the unedited interviews were made accessible in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting in 2018. [13]
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.
"LGBTQ American history is not taught in Florida's public schools, so I took it upon myself to explain the events of the Stonewall Uprising to my 4th period U.S. history class."
Stormé DeLarverie (c. December 24, 1920 – May 24, 2014) was an American woman known as the butch lesbian whose scuffle with police was, according to DeLarverie and many eyewitnesses, the spark that ignited the Stonewall uprising, spurring the crowd to action. [3] She was born in New Orleans, to an African American mother and a white father.
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.
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American Experience is a television program airing on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States. The program airs documentaries, many of which have won awards, [3] about important or interesting events and people in American history. The series premiered on October 4, 1988, and was originally titled The American Experience.
The Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Streets. New York: Abrams Books for Young Readers. ISBN 978-1-4197-3720-6. Sanders, Kate (producer) (2011). Stonewall Uprising Interviews: Interview with Fred Sargeant (videotape). American Experience; Sargeant, Fred (June 22, 2010). "1970: A First-Person Account of the First Gay Pride March"