Who threw the first brick at Stonewall? The question has been argued over by generations of queer historians, with little consensus. By some accounts, either Marsha P. Johnson or Sylvia Rivera ...

What kind of gay bar was Stonewall? What was a gay bar in 1969 like, anyway? Who went there? Who didn’t? Who protested? Who started it? Who threw the first brick? Was it the launching pad of the ...

While history often highlights the Stonewall uprising as a pivotal moment for queer liberation, Rivera made sure the world ...

Johnson was part of the “vanguard” that resisted police during the Stonewall riots — demonstrations ... credit Johnson for throwing the first brick or shot glass that sparked the riots.

A routine police raid on an unlicensed West Village gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, turned into the spark that fueled the modern-day LGBTQ rights movement. Who threw the first brick? Was there even a ...

Despite their importance in the timeline of queer history, the Stonewall riots that kick started ... thematic context to the story. This is the first feature film role for star Frederick Weller ...

For the first time in history, the people that are always incarcerating us, we were now incarcerating them," Segal said. This brick wall connected the two parts of the original Stonewall Inn.