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Stonewall Equality Limited, [2] [1] [3] trading as Stonewall, is a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights charity in the United Kingdom. It is the largest LGBT rights organisation in Europe. [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
Stonewall National Monument is a 7.7-acre (340,000 sq ft; 31,000 m 2) U.S. national monument in the West Village neighborhood of Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan, ...
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.
The original Stonewall Inn was founded in 1930 as a speakeasy on Seventh Avenue South. It relocated in 1934 to Christopher Street, where it operated as a restaurant until 1966. Four mafiosos associated with the Genovese crime family bought the restaurant and reopened it as a gay bar in early 1967. The Stonewall Inn was a popular hangout for gay ...
[8] [9] Known as an outspoken advocate for gay rights, Johnson was one of the prominent figures in the Stonewall uprising of 1969. [6] [10] [11] Johnson was a founding member of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) and co-founded the radical activist group Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), alongside close friend Sylvia Rivera. [12]
Stonewall Columbus (formerly Stonewall Union), LGBTQ organization in Columbus, Ohio founded in 1981. Stonewall Democrats, a United States Democratic Party caucus Stonewall Young Democrats, an affiliated youth-based organization; Stonewall Inn, site of the 1969 Stonewall riots in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City
Stonewall Kitchen is a specialty food producer based in York, Maine, United States. The company was founded as a homemade products stall at a local farmers market in 1991 [ 1 ] and today sells in 42 countries. [ 2 ]
In 2018, Happy Birthday, Marsha! a short film about Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, set in the hours before the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City, was released. [56] A large, painted mural depicting Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson went on display in Dallas, Texas, in 2019 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.