Among those arrested was doorman, Anthony Verra, 25, of 864 49th St., Brooklyn, charged with unlawful sale, consumption and storage of liquor, and Dave Van Ronk, 33, of 55 Sheridan Square ...

The other day I heard a story about folk singer Dave Van Ronk being arrested at the Stonewall Riots. He was at a bar in Greenwich Village in New York and he emerged to find the riot happening.

The riot began the gay civil rights movement. In 1969, Mark Segal was just 18 years old. He was at the Stonewall Inn on June 28 when riots at the New York City gay bar changed the course of LGBTQ+ ...

The media coverage of what is now called the Stonewall riots reflected the era’s homophobic attitudes. In the late 1960s, it was still illegal in most states to be gay, not a single law ...

Last Sunday, I was at the Stonewall Inn in New York City to kick off a campaign to make neighboring Christopher Park a national park. As the site of the infamous 1969 riots that energized the ...

Both he and Lanigan-Schmidt point out that the street youth most responsible for the riots were more likely to be listening to rock and R&B — not Judy Garland. Another prominent Stonewall icon ...

President Biden on Friday marked the 55th anniversary of the riots at the Stonewall Inn in New York, which sparked the beginning of the modern gay rights movement. The president was joined by New ...

U.S. -- Just over 50 years ago, the Pride movement erupted outside of the Stonewall Inn in New York City, with black transgender women like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera helping to lead the ...

When Yvonne Ritter was 18, she celebrated her birthday at the Stonewall Inn on the night of the riots. Ritter, who is transgender, was arrested and thrown into a police van. She was terrified that ...