Stonewall riots

The LGBT community has been suffering inequality for hundreds of years. Even though there was suffering, it inspired movements and projects to be created in order to bring attention to the unfair treatment against the community. Activists such as Cleve Jones create marks and take a step closer to equality. Just last year, gay marriage was made legal in all 50 states and there are many campaigns spreading AIDS awareness and contributing to fundraise for research. The LGBT community just wants to…

The issues of police brutality against the minorities are revealed in events like the stonewall riot in the bar June 1969 that police entered and publicly beat them. The gay face prejudice throughout the movie for example when Harvey milk opens Castro Camera store and then when Harvey shook someone hand the man wiped his hands with a towel.…

The 1970’s began a radical movement for change with the Stonewall riot and the Gay Liberation Front influenced by the civil rights movement, feminism, and antiwar movement. The GLF achieved public support for coming out in public, a new expression of pride for the community, and a growth of movement organizations…

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs is an interesting novel where Johann Hari, the author tells his story of being drawn to addicts and recovering addicts. His feeling of being drawn to these addicts made it possible for him to travel all over the world. I am going to break this novel into three different themes that I saw Hari make. The first theme that I thought was interesting and not surprising is that race plays a huge part in who is to be arrested and or…

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…

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…

:Prohibition and Dispensary Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson once confessed, “I am more afraid of the effects of King Alcohol than all the bullets of the enemy” (Jones 443). To make such a firm statement, Jackson had to understand just how harmful the effects of alcohol on people and America as a whole has had throughout history. From 10,000 B.C. to today, alcohol and its effects have been evident (Hanson). In the 19th century, the consequences that come along with alcohol sprung…

Ken Kesey was born on September 17, 1935 in La Junta California, was raised in Springfield, Oregon.. He also was seen as an important wrestler at the University of Oregon and after he graduated he received the fred lowe scholarship from the University as well. With it he received an literary education from a graduate program at Stanford . In the 1960s, Kesey had worked in a psychiatric hospital ward as a janitor and had also participated in a experiment with the army testing the effects of mind…

The post- WWII middle class nuclear ideal was a time when the husband worked, the wife stayed home and maintained the family, and the children who were obedient and listened well. It was the idea that everyone in the family had to work together with shared responsibilities in order for the family to contribute to the society 's well being. As stated by the New World Encyclopedia, " The family is often referred to as a haven providing love and protection from the rough and tumble industrialized…

The social movements mentioned include women’s rights supporters at Seneca Falls, the lesbian and gay people who protested during the 1970 Stonewall riots and the Civil rights marchers who were beaten in Alabama. For the first time in the history of the U.S., an inaugural speech endorsed same-sex marriage and gay rights (21). He said, “Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters…