Stonewall Inn

1960s: How The Political Changes Affected Our Society Hook: How have the changes that happened in the 1960s politically affected our society? Thesis: During the 1960s, many political changes have affected our society, such as the Civil Rights Movement, Gay Rights Movement, Women’s Rights Movement, and Vietnam War. I. Civil Rights Movement: The Civil Rights Movement was one of the longest and most remembered events that happened in the US. 1. 1964 – > The wake of the Civil Rights Movement:…

It seems so simple to love, that the comfort of attraction lends itself to everyone and that the subtleties of interest are selfsame, by instinct at least; even so, it’s said that we’re conditioned to love, but to me, it’s not that we’re conditioned to it as much as we’re in the condition of its capability, simply being human—to love’s as natural as life itself, as typical as sight or sound, as native as a thought of rationality. Trouble, then, comes about when love we know true doesn’t quite…

America’s goal of becoming a society that is a “city upon a hill” is often unachievable for some. The United States prides itself on its many freedoms and opportunities, but these freedoms are often not available for many people. One example of the struggle to attain certain civil liberties and rights can be seen in the gay rights movement. Over time, many people have spoken out against the unjust treatment of the LGBT community. They have been subject to a lot of discrimination and harassment…

Gay marriage, or to be more politically correct, same-sex marriage has been the debate of the century. Now to me this particular situation has been stretched to its limit. No one has the right to same how an individual lives their life. The previous laws that were being followed and argued over were made a couple hundred years ago. Time has changed, situations are no longer the same. These laws were based on a religion which is still prevalent in today’s society, however, basing laws off of one…

The Worldwide Contrast on Gay Rights Imagine, a person trying to get married to their closest lover: you see them every day, that is until they are killed for their love. Around the world, gay people have been struggling to live, not having any sort of movement until recent centuries. This movement has started in a couple of countries; however, in comparison countries without a movement have terrible conditions for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transexual (LGBT) people. Gay rights have generally been…

swarm of angry gay youths decided for the first time to fight back. There was a group of patrons outside of the club throwing trashcans, rocks, and random items at the police cars. The police men began to become very nervous and retreated into the Stonewall Inn. The lead…

of being harassed and not being allowed to have the benefits of proper police and federal protection. The Stonewall Riots of 1969 paved way for change in the LGBT community in regard to political possibilities. The movement became more organized and influential following these riots and gave new hope for the community after decades of social and political negligence. Following the Stonewall riots, two new organizations formed. The Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activists Alliance. Both…

riots continued, this time with numbers reaching just over 1,000 people rioting. Within all of the riots, advocacy groups like the Gay Liberation Front, began to develop. These groups began to raise attention to gay rights around the United States. (Stonewall Riots: The Beginning of the LGBT Movement.) It was not to long after that the LGBT community began to win their first battles. In December of 1973, the American Psychiatric Association declared that homosexuality was not a mental disorder.…

Fear has always been around for long time, and if someone who is homosexual, fears of what their families will think about them, and how other’s will treat them on the outside. Some who are homosexual are afraid to come out due to fact that they know their mom and dad don’t believe in gay rights, and that will affect their relationship in bad way. Their biggest fear for being gay is their parents might abandon their relationship as son/daughter and they have to go out in the world without them…

When first hearing the word “equality” what comes to mind? Equality, in moral and definitive standards, is the equal status, rights, and opportunities that all citizens should have upon being born. Our basic human rights should not be abnegated upon the basis of someones race, religion, sex, or sexual preferences. Throughout history, homosexuals — one sexually attracted to people of one’s own gender — have always been discriminated upon. For the past century homosexuals have protested and stood…