Stonewall Inn

On Saturday June 28th 1969, at 1:20 in the morning, police officers raided the Stonewall Inn leading to the revolutionary battle toward the LGBT liberations movement (The Historic Stonewall Inn). Stonewall Inn is a gay bar located on 53 Christopher St, New York, NY 10014, between West 4th Street and Waverly Place, in the Greenwich Village of Lower Manhattan. Stonewall Inn is a tavern open to all genders, but more specifically to the gay community of Lower Manhattan. This bar represents and brings awareness to the LGBT community that fought long and hard for their equal rights. The two adjoining, two story, red brick buildings together form the legendary Stonewall Inn as a reminder of progression for the community and that now gay individuals are free to walk the streets of New York without the fear of bring violated for their gender (Associated Press).…

June 28, 1969, New York City Police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club located on New York City’s Christopher Street. This soon turned violent when police forces roughly dragged out the patrons and employees out of the bar. The police arrested the employees for serving liquor without a license, which was their reason for disturbing the peace, and forced multiple patrons into a police van. This unnecessary act sparked a riot, bringing together residents and bystanders as they threw bottles and…

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.…

era were homosexual sex was illegal in every state except Illinois. Homosexuals were discriminated against homosexual sex was punishable by prison. Within Greenwich Village is the Stonewall Inn which was a common area for homosexuals to hangout and drink. In the 1960's, New York created police vice squads that's purpose was to raid gay bars and baths. They began using decoys to solicit and entrap gays. By 1966 over 100 men a week were arrested as a result of this effort. Police raided this…

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…

these collective fronts altered history with their movement. Typically, what starts a movement is a turning point that causes a collective uprising, refusing to continue in the current state. In the Stonewall riots’ case, the police raid of The Stonewall Inn was the catalyst for this movement, connecting a broad spectrum of people to demand better treatment. For many people in the 1960s and throughout American history, it was hard to exist as yourself. As time passed, many marginalized groups…

Groves 1 Jared Groves Ms. Ayers English II 10 - 31 - 16 The Stonewall Riots The Stonewall Riots were protests about gay rights and the beginning of the gay rights movement. It refers to the violent raids and arrests on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village at the Stonewall Inn (“White House…” par. 1). It happened June 28, 1969, in New York. It took place at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village. Most who protested were LGBT people (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender). They all protested…

Gays and lesbians have been standing up and sometimes even rioting for many years. For example, “The Stonewall riots (also referred to as the Stonewall uprising or the Stonewall rebellion) were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBT) community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. They are widely considered to…

Based on the events of the 1969 Stonewall riots is the film, Stonewall. The movie focusses on fictional Danny Irvine, a gay Caucasian youth who leaves his conservative Indiana countryside for New York City. In the weeks leading up to the riot, he meets and befriends a group of LGBTQ youth. Danny is shown the rough lifestyle of theft and hustling of these street kids as well as the realities of police raids and the brutality of their bigotry. In the process, he learns more about LGBTQ culture…

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