Stonewall riots

it is irrefutable that 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,…

Ann Bausum’s book, Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights, covers the events of the Stonewall Riots and other important topics brought up by gay rights. The book goes through events going a bit farther back than 1969, when Stonewall occurred, until 2013 in modern times. Bausum recounts the events leading up to the Stonewall Riots, the riots themselves, what it was like to be gay at the time, the aids epidemic, and where we are now in modern day with gay rights. Besides the events…

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 decades prior, Stonewall Inn was the final hit that the LGBTQ+ community could take before sparking a movement that is still ongoing today. The riots following the event sparked mass amounts of…

bars. Other developments included the Compton cafeteria riots, an early riot that occurred in San Francisco, California in which patrons, many dressed in drag, were resisted police brutality and discrimination. Historian Susan Stryker notes that the Compton’s Cafeteria riot involved militant street action by transgender people, and that this movement did spur “lasting institutional change”. Like the later Stonewall riots, the Compton’s riot took place when police targeted a crowd of mostly…

Illinois was the first state to legalize homosexuality. Things really started looking up for gays; and in 1969 homosexuals had their first riot. The police raided a gay bar called the Stonewall Inn in New York City. Instead of the gays allowing them to raid the place they started to fight back. According to History of Gay Rights in the U.S. article “The Stonewall Riots served as the spark that turned the gay rights movement into a much larger protest for equal rights and acceptance. In 1973, the…

Religion could be found in every corner of the world. It dictates what we eat, how we look, what we do or don’t do, and the morals we believe. For a lot of us religion is a big part of our lives and this could be seen in our government. Since the birth of the United States, religion has played a big part in our society, lawmaking, and culture. The U.S is a Christian based country and its morals have dictated a lot of laws. These religious biased laws have suppressed many types of people and the…

In her speech “Our Armies Are Rising and We Are Getting Stronger”, to the Latino Gay Men of New York (LGMNY) in 2001, Sylvia Rivera recounted her life in the context of her contribution to transgender activism, specifically that of the Stonewall Riots which took place during the summer of 1969. Throughout her speech Rivera reveals the underlying and persistent marginalization that took place not only on behalf of the cisgender, heteronormative community, but by her own community as well. Just…

Before Stonewall provides a historical overview of the development of the experiences within the LGBTQ community in the US in the 20th century, leading up to the police raids and riots at the Stonewall Inn in New York City in 1969. The documentary begins in the early 1900s. In this time nobody really knew anything about the gay community, in fact the word gay was “dirty.” If there were any suspicions that a person had gay tendencies they were committed to a mental institution. As the 20s’ came…

The Stonewall Rebellion serves as an iconic and salient symbol of the modern gay rights movement- recently President Obama affirmed its relevance and power through designating Stonewall and the surrounding neighborhood as a National Historic Site. Through his monumentalizing of the Stonewall National Monument as part of America’s National Park System Obama attests to the vitality of LGBTQ+ culture in America, saying, “I believe our national parks should reflect the full story of our country, the…

On June twenty-seventh, 1969 the Stonewall Rebellion, also known as “the emblematic event in modern lesbian and gay history” had started. It was a time where police and agents from the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board were called in to look for violations of the alcohol control laws in a bar named the Stonewall Inn because it was believed that they did not have a liquor license. Most of the raids were common on gay bars and the regular routine for patrons. Although most were fearful that their…