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After Stonewall, Hoose was became part of early Gay Liberation Front an early LGBTQ+ rights organization founded in NYC after the riots. Hoose organized regular "gay community dances on behalf of ...
Attempting to reclaim the Stonewall story for queer people on their own terms, Stein, a gay man, has collected 200 documents (many not easy to access) drawing from both primary and secondary sources ...
Stonewall. They say it was the spark that set the fire ablaze. The start of the modern LGBTQ movement. Protests and riots that lasted for days in defense of gay rights. And from it, came gay pride ...
Two teenage girls have been shot near the historic Stonewall Inn in New York following the city’s pride parade. A 16-year-old girl was shot in the head and is in a critical condition, the New ...
An Oscar-winning William Hurt playing an openly gay character in the 1985 film was “a radical ground-shaking,” says Tonatiuh ...
However, on June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall which led to days of protests and riots. “I’ll never forget it. What led up to the riots, a lot of physical abuse of the police,” she said.
The New York City Pride March had ended and revelers were still celebrating near the Stonewall Inn, the birthplace of the gay rights movement, when the shots rang out. It was just before 10:15 p.m ...