The riot at the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969 was an event that had a massive impact on the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual (LGB) rights movement. The riot started because of a police raid on the bar, due to it being illegal to be a LGB person at that time, the people in the bar had grown tired of the raids and fought against the police. The people involved with the riot did this through its effects on the movement by creating advocacy groups and made changing how LGB people were treated by police. However the Stonewall riots could have only have occurred because of the conditions at the time which were due to the many changes of ideas in society at the time.
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The police at the time of the Stonewall riots regularly raided bars with gay clientele as it was illegal for LGB people to dance with each other or to serve or drink alcohol to an LGB person . During the raids police would enter a bar, staff would stop serving the watered down drinks and take the money earned from the drinks. The police would then make all the people in the bar line up and their ID would be checked. If they did not have an ID, were in drag, or were a woman not wearing at least three pieces of “feminine clothing” they would be arrested. The people who were not arrested were taken outside and left there. The Stonewall riot started when either a “butch” lesbian or an African-American drag queen resisted arrest the reports vary. The crowd outside then started throwing coins at the police, to mock their system of taking money from gay bars for no reason. Other objects were then thrown, and arrested people freed by other LGB people. This chaos lead to the police barricading themselves inside the Stonewall Inn. Riot officers, who usually dispersed riots around the U.S involvement in Vietnam, were sent to disperse the Stonewall riots. This lead to more protests that lasted for almost a week. Even though it was legal at the time for the police to do this the LGB people had revolted …show more content…
This is due to the many improvements for LGB people that came from the riots such as laws preventing discrimination, which lead to other improvements that made acts such as hate crimes illegal. One of these improvements is advocacy groups, these were formed through “intense discussions” regarding civil rights for LGB people that occurred during the riots in New York. The first advocacy group formed was the Gay Liberation Front . This name was chosen due to its ties with anti-imperialism in Vietnam and Algeria . Following the Stonewall riots LGB people across America started to organise groups for gay rights and these groups were formed in almost all major cities . Then around the world the Gay Liberation Front or a similar group was formed in Canada, France, Britain, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Australia, and New Zealand . The Gay Liberation Front then ended but the ideas of gay rights kept going and lead to more groups such as Gay Activists Alliance . This contributed to the organisation of the first gay pride marches to keep advancing rights for LGB people with many marches occurring on June 28 the same date as the Stonewall riots. These marches and advocacy groups lead the way for further changes in the treatment and rights of LGB people such as the “Gay Rights Bill” and the abolishment of laws preventing gay, lesbian or bisexual relationships in 1984 . The “Gay Rights
While the catalyst of the LGB rights movement was the Stonewall riots they largely occurred …show more content…
The police at the time of the Stonewall riots regularly raided bars with gay clientele as it was illegal for LGB people to dance with each other or to serve or drink alcohol to an LGB person . During the raids police would enter a bar, staff would stop serving the watered down drinks and take the money earned from the drinks. The police would then make all the people in the bar line up and their ID would be checked. If they did not have an ID, were in drag, or were a woman not wearing at least three pieces of “feminine clothing” they would be arrested. The people who were not arrested were taken outside and left there. The Stonewall riot started when either a “butch” lesbian or an African-American drag queen resisted arrest the reports vary. The crowd outside then started throwing coins at the police, to mock their system of taking money from gay bars for no reason. Other objects were then thrown, and arrested people freed by other LGB people. This chaos lead to the police barricading themselves inside the Stonewall Inn. Riot officers, who usually dispersed riots around the U.S involvement in Vietnam, were sent to disperse the Stonewall riots. This lead to more protests that lasted for almost a week. Even though it was legal at the time for the police to do this the LGB people had revolted …show more content…
This is due to the many improvements for LGB people that came from the riots such as laws preventing discrimination, which lead to other improvements that made acts such as hate crimes illegal. One of these improvements is advocacy groups, these were formed through “intense discussions” regarding civil rights for LGB people that occurred during the riots in New York. The first advocacy group formed was the Gay Liberation Front . This name was chosen due to its ties with anti-imperialism in Vietnam and Algeria . Following the Stonewall riots LGB people across America started to organise groups for gay rights and these groups were formed in almost all major cities . Then around the world the Gay Liberation Front or a similar group was formed in Canada, France, Britain, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Australia, and New Zealand . The Gay Liberation Front then ended but the ideas of gay rights kept going and lead to more groups such as Gay Activists Alliance . This contributed to the organisation of the first gay pride marches to keep advancing rights for LGB people with many marches occurring on June 28 the same date as the Stonewall riots. These marches and advocacy groups lead the way for further changes in the treatment and rights of LGB people such as the “Gay Rights Bill” and the abolishment of laws preventing gay, lesbian or bisexual relationships in 1984 . The “Gay Rights