Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. A famous quote by Johnson, who was present at Stonewall, adorns the wall: “No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us.” It's alarming that pride and ...

But despite not being the first, the Stonewall uprising is still the most famous. And despite the many myths and mysteries surrounding it, Chauncey said the historic event has continued to be ...

When the National Park Service recently removed all references to transgender and queer people from the Stonewall National Monument website, one of our country’s most important ways to honor and ...

Cookie Woolner, a punk rock drummer turned scholar, has unearthed these hidden gems in her groundbreaking book, The Famous Lady Lovers: Black Women and Queer Desire before Stonewall. Through ...

The crowd of thousands that gathered outside the Stonewall Inn on Friday, packing the streets around the most famous gay bar in the world, assembled to pay tribute to the pioneers who 50 years ago ...

Incidents like the one at Cooper’s presaged the more famous queer uprising at the Stonewall Inn a decade later, but—except for Stonewall—these incidents have been largely forgotten.

Forty years ago this weekend, police raids to root out homosexual patrons at the Stonewall Inn caused an uprising whose reverberations are still felt today. “The fire was lit, and it spread ...

Leitsch, accompanied by two other men, went from one watering hole to the next, waiting to be turned way in what is now perhaps the most famous bar ... there’s a pre-Stonewall history of ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The charity Stonewall was founded in the UK in 1989, named after the bar which sparked the famous riots. It works to fight inequality and homophobia, and campaigned to overturn the Section 28 law ...

The National Park Service has removed references to transgender and queer people on its web page for the Stonewall National Monument, which marks the site of the New York City inn where LGBTQ ...