Stonewall Inn

After a police raided Stonewall Inn in 1969 it sparked the fight that would continue to this day. In 1973, “homosexuality” was declassified as a mental disorder according to the American Psychiatric Association. Two years later the American Psychological Association followed their…

supervisor in San Francisco. Then loses State Assembly race and in spite co-funds the San Francisco Gay Democratic Club. June 27, 1996, there was a police raid against gays at the Stonewall Inn, which sparked a three-day riot protesting for equal rights and acceptance. This was a turning point in gay rights called the "Stonewall riots" a widespread protest. Finally, in 2004 same-sex marriages become legal in Massachusetts. About 3 years later the house of representatives approves a bill ensuring…

LGBTQ+, short for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and so on, is a community of people gathered together who support or fall under one of these categories. The LGBTQ+ community in conjunction spreads awareness for their rights and laws, or ones that they need, but did you know that up until 2007, anyone could commit a hate crime against a person because of their sexual or gender orientation and not get punished? How about the fact that it wasn’t until 1973 that homosexuality was…

Throughout the 1900’s there was a lot of things built up against the United States, from WWII to the civil rights movements there was plenty for the citizens and the government to deal with. One important part of this time that people forget is the attacks and discrimination of different homosexual groups within this time. Thus it is believed that the U.S. should have gotten involved in stopping any persecution of homosexual individuals or groups in the 1900’s because, if they had done something…

Since the Orlando massacre mainstream articles, analyses, and even cartoons about how easy it is to acquire a gun have expanded. Gun control was a major theme at the June 13 Stonewall Inn vigil in New York City. A call for politicians to “get the guns off the streets” was met with strong applause from the four-thousand-plus crowd, and every elected official who spoke commended the virtues of gun control and their record on the issue…

In the 1960 's many changes occurred in America that questioned traditional society. From these questions, movements like the Sexual Revolution began to flourish. According to historian Beth Bailey, the sexual revolution of the 1960’s “was built on equal measures of hypocrisy and honesty, equality and exploitation” (Bailey 259). However, the sexual revolution did not consist of just one single movement. Multiple movements transpired at the same time, including the developments amongst women,…

Esther Santos, of Dominican decent, is a lively retired social studies teacher and gay-rights activist. Santos immigrated from the Dominican Republic with her mother and father in 1956 at the young age of 6. They lived in New York city with her aunt and uncle until moving into their apartment in the Bronx. In high school, she was a star student and very active in extracurricular activities such as: track and cheerleading. After graduating, she attended New York University where she majored in…

Police brutality has had a long lineage in the United States of America. Beginning in 1877 with the Great Railroad Strike, police began targeting poor labor workers as they attempted to make a fair living. The Pullman Strike of 1894, the Lawrence textile strike of 1912, the Ludlow massacre of 1914, police brutally attacked labor workers on strike. Fast-forward to the 1960s where Native Americans, Latino immigrants, LGBT people, and blacks were the new target, low on the totem pole. Police…

About 49 years ago, Marsha Johnson, an African American transgender female, responsible for a rights movement in the U.S. for the LGBT+ community. The Stonewall Riots, which was when police were targeting a gay inn and the cross dressers and LGBT+ members within. The spark of change was fanned until it grew into a flame which continues to burn today. In America, thought there is more tolerance than back then, the LGBT+ faces injustice…

When gays and lesbians began to demand equality the same as heterosexuals. The Stonewall Inn riot ignited the movement and led to many gay and lesbian get into politics, advocate for the legalization marriage. Since the gay movement of the seventies was nothing to the actual legalization of gay marriage in thirty-five states in the last…