Stonewall riots

A local bar in New York’s Greenwich Village called the Stonewall Inn was the target of this routine police raid. At this age in time, it was still considered socially unacceptable to be gay. There were no laws protecting homosexuals and brutal force was used by the government officials. This all began as police…

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Stonewall Riot was a riot between the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender community against Police officers. It 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. The riots marks the beginning of the modern day gay liberation. During the riots gay and drag queens showed heterosexual people that they are as physical as them. Before the riots gay people and drag queens did not have any right or…

events such as the Stonewall riots. These people people organized social groups such as the Daughters of Bilitis and the Mattachine Society, fighting to be able to exist in public spaces such as bars and the papers and later on, rights to same-sex marriage and equal job opportunity. The LGBT movement has impacted our society in social and public ways, changing the way we will interact in future years. Before the Mattachine Society and the Daughters of Bilitis the Stonewall Riots, and the gay…

Homosexuality was a crime for most of the United States history. As early as the 20th-century people were working discreetly until the Stonewall riots of 1969 for the acceptance of people who are gay in society. The Stonewall Riots were a major turning point for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) community. It was beginning of societal awareness of the persecution and needed rights of the LGBT community. This seminal conflict eventually led to increased social acceptance and legal…

The lasting impact of the Stonewall Riots originates from ideals in the Transcendentalist era. Transcendentalism was an American movement in both philosophy and literature, lasting from 1836 to 1860. Beginning as a movement for reform in the Unitarian Church, it branched off from William Ellery Channing's’ views of an “indwelling God and the significance of intuitive thought” (American Transcendentalism by Donna M. Campbell). Transcendentalism was a belief system that showed the significance of…

The event of the riot influenced several people to commence groups that advocated for the community’s sense of normality. According to an article, “Immediately after Stonewall, a few radical groups were formed. These began fighting against the American Psychiatric Society’s classification of gay as a disease, and in 1973 the Association removed…

authority at gay bars because they were often raided by the police. A popular hang out among the gay community was a mafia run gay bar in New York called the Stonewall Inn. The Stonewall Inn holds great significance because it was the grounds of an event that changed history forever. On June 28, 1969 the police were conducting a raid on the Stonewall Inn. However, events soon revealed that the raid would not go according to plan and would be different from the standard police raid. The patrons…

The Stonewall Riots were violent, spur of the moment protests following the police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a popular meeting place for gay New Yorkers. The year was 1969- Nixon had just been sworn in, and Apollo 11 had landed on the moon barely a week before. It was the tail end of the Civil Rights Movement, but the Gay Rights Movement hadn’t even begun. The Stonewall Riots were pivotal in the creation of the LGBT rights, and their impact can be seen to this day. Prior to the riots, gay…

turned into riots lasting several evenings, with an impact that would continue to this day. Often people divide the history of the United States’ gay rights movement into two epochs- “before Stonewall” and “after Stonewall”. Accordingly, this distinction illustrates the Stonewall Riots’ individual importance for gay rights even as it was not the first event to highlight the injustices of homophobia. Despite its relatively late appearance in the timeline of gay rights history, the riots were the…