During the summer of 1969 the Berkeley Barb, a newspaper based out of Berkeley California wrote, “Homosexuals took to the streets in New York City last weekend and joined the revolution.” On June 28, 1969, a gay bar in New York City called the Stonewall Inn was raided by police officers setting off a global revolution. Within a day, riots spread across the city, eventually starting a nationwide movement of political activism and pride.
Although the fight for gay rights had been going on for decades prior, Stonewall Inn was the final hit that the LGBTQ+ community could take before sparking a movement that is still ongoing today. The riots following the event sparked mass amounts of publicity that went global, changing the homophobic views of …show more content…
The Gay Liberation Movement is the activist group that is most well-known but there were many others, for example, the Gay Liberation Front, founded in New York City by Michael Brown, and the International Lesbian Gay Association, based out of England. There were also activism groups forming in both Asia and Australia at the time. The global impact that the press was able to contribute following Stonewall Inn was substantial in the fight for gay rights in the last few decades. Not only did the press encourage these groups to be created, but many of these groups began finding ways to continue updating the world on events affecting the LGBTQ+ community and for the Gay Liberation Front, it was a newspaper. The Gay Liberation Front was the first activism group to ever begin a newspaper, and it worked just the way they wanted it to. The GLF Newspaper was named Come Out and the name was very intentional. The goal of the paper was to encourage people to finally stop staying silent and speak out against the injustice they were facing on a day-to-day basis. They would feature stories of gay Americans on every one of their issues and that was a quick way to share the stories of their experiences as members of the LGBTQ+ community living in America facing discrimination and oppression every single day. The Gay Liberation Front founder Michael Brown spoke out in a New York Times article in the late 1900s, “We're probably the most harassed, persecuted minority group in history, but we'll never have the freedom and civil rights we deserve as human beings unless we stop hiding in closets and in the shelter of anonymity,” While the Gay Liberation Front newspaper was able to spark change through the people, finding ways to obtain more legal rights was a lot more difficult for
Although the fight for gay rights had been going on for decades prior, Stonewall Inn was the final hit that the LGBTQ+ community could take before sparking a movement that is still ongoing today. The riots following the event sparked mass amounts of publicity that went global, changing the homophobic views of …show more content…
The Gay Liberation Movement is the activist group that is most well-known but there were many others, for example, the Gay Liberation Front, founded in New York City by Michael Brown, and the International Lesbian Gay Association, based out of England. There were also activism groups forming in both Asia and Australia at the time. The global impact that the press was able to contribute following Stonewall Inn was substantial in the fight for gay rights in the last few decades. Not only did the press encourage these groups to be created, but many of these groups began finding ways to continue updating the world on events affecting the LGBTQ+ community and for the Gay Liberation Front, it was a newspaper. The Gay Liberation Front was the first activism group to ever begin a newspaper, and it worked just the way they wanted it to. The GLF Newspaper was named Come Out and the name was very intentional. The goal of the paper was to encourage people to finally stop staying silent and speak out against the injustice they were facing on a day-to-day basis. They would feature stories of gay Americans on every one of their issues and that was a quick way to share the stories of their experiences as members of the LGBTQ+ community living in America facing discrimination and oppression every single day. The Gay Liberation Front founder Michael Brown spoke out in a New York Times article in the late 1900s, “We're probably the most harassed, persecuted minority group in history, but we'll never have the freedom and civil rights we deserve as human beings unless we stop hiding in closets and in the shelter of anonymity,” While the Gay Liberation Front newspaper was able to spark change through the people, finding ways to obtain more legal rights was a lot more difficult for