Stonewall Inn

In 1969, Stonewall Riots started the LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender) movement in New York. A group of gay customers at a gay bar called the Stonewall Inn were angry with unfair treatment by police outside, a riot broke out. As words spread throughout the city about the discrimination in Stonewall Inn, more and more people joined the riot to fight for their equality. The Stonewall riots inspired people throughout the country to organize in…

For example, the Stonewall Riots in 1967 occurred after a gay bar known as the Stonewall Inn had grown tired of harassment from the police. They threw objects at the police and yelled “gay power,” and the riots grew each night as they continued. A second example of violent protest would be the Berkeley Protests…

They would make wide assumptions about people in order to properly arrest them, and sometimes they would find an excuse to have gay people put in jail- An example would be stonewall riots, were they originally were sent to the Stonewall Inn to look at bottle of alcohol to see if they were bootlegged, but used that as an excuse to arrest and harass queer people. This is a lot like Thomas Putnam making wide claims about people he disagrees with in order to…

As stated on history.com, right after 3 o’clock in the morning, a police raid at the Stonewall Inn, a New York City gay club, became violent when patrons of the establishment and local sympathizers began to revolt against the police. Even though the police had the right to raid the club, seeing as how the club was selling liquor without a license…

The Matrix of Domination as described by Patricia Hill Collins, is the interlocking system of oppression based on race, class, gender, and sexuality. The Matrix of Domination was initiated as a concept to represent the truth that in order to actually understand oppression we must understand its counter position of privilege. Moving beyond the decades old tradition of focusing only on the oppressed (African Americans, women, the poor, LGBTQ), the notion of the Matrix of Domination forces us to…

Unfortunately, this is what life was like before they started to fight back against the oppression. The younger generations have grown up in a society, for the most part, of love, acceptance, and protection for these people. This essay will argue that the Stonewall riots were unpremeditated and violent demonstrations that not only marked the start of the gay rights movement, but created the emergence of concepts and influences that are still prevalent today. It will support this argument…

Before Stonewall provides an historical overview of the development of the experiences of the LGBTQ community in the U.S. in the twentieth century, leading up to the police raid and riots at the Stonewall Inn in New York City in 1969. In the 1920s, gay people were very much present during the time of the prohibition in artist and dance communities, particularly in urban areas such as San Francisco’s Barbary Coast, New Orleans’ French Quarter, and New York’s Harlem and Greenwich Village. They…

In the summer of 1969 in New York a group of gay men, lesbian women and transgender individuals, most of whom were people of color, rose up against the police officers that were raiding the Stonewall Inn and unjustly arresting people. This started what later became known as the Stonewall Riots, which many people consider to be the very beginning of the gay rights movement in America. Years later, in 1980 in El Salvador, Oscar Arnulfo Romero, the archbishop of San Salvador was assassinated while…

rate. After the Black Cat bar incident, Jose Sarria was a gay candidate running for city supervisor. All these events, and many more, resulted in the launching of the stonewall riots and what is known as the “gay rights movement.” In more recent news, on June 24, 2016, President Obama designated a national monument at the Stonewall Uprising in New York City. This monument signifies a huge step…

would be start of change. According to Lucian Truscott IV, the author of, Gay Power Comes To Sheridan Square, “The forces of faggotry, spurred by a Friday night raid on one of the city 's largest, most popular, and longest lived gay bars, the Stonewall Inn, rallied Saturday night in an unprecedented protest against the raid and continued Sunday night to assert presence, possibility, and pride until the early hours of Monday morning.” I’m a faggot, and I 'm proud of it! ““Gay power!" "I like boys…