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June 28, Stonewall Riots
On June 28, , New York City police arrived at the Stonewall Inn, a bar in Greenwich Village that catered to the gay community, to actions a routine raid and arrest any individuals set up to be cross-dressing.
The raid did not proceed routinely, and resulted in resistance and demonstrations by the bar&#;s patrons and other individuals who gathered around the scene. The Stonewall Riots are considered to be a spark that ignited the gay rights movement.
However, in Teaching Stonewall’s 50th Anniversary, Teaching Tolerance editors note that it is important for students to learn that the gay rights movement did not begin with Stonewall.
Before, during and after Stonewall, activists in New York City were fighting against a system that criminalized their love lives and outward expression. Jason Baumann, who curated the Fresh York Public Library’s exhibit honoring the Stonewall Uprising’s 50th anniversary, points out that as early as the s, groups like the Mattachine Society and Daughters of Bilitis were opposing employment discrimination. Queer people at San Francisco
Stonewall at Remembering Importance of Riots, Pride and Visibility
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Kay Tobin Lahusen made her mark on history by photographing LGBTQ advocacy during the Stonewall era.
“We were fighting for our rights well before Stonewall,” Lahusen, the first openly gay American woman photojournalist, told Equality. “[Stonewall] was a spark that did kick a movement forward… it was a flashpoint in the movement. But they were inspired by some older activists, and I’m glad to express I was among them.”
On June 28, , the uprising at The Stonewall Inn, a bar in New York City, was a pivotal marker in the beginning of the LGBTQ rights movement in the U.S. After experiencing police brutality simply for congregating, LGBTQ patrons decided to take a stay and fight back against the brutal intimidation they regularly faced.
Stonewall was the most visible incidence of police brutal
The Stonewall Riots (June 28, )
In , a riot at the Stonewall Inn (later known as the Stonewall Riots) became a turning point in the fight for LGBTQ civil rights. Though few records of the actual raid and riots that followed exist, the oral history of that time has been captured by the participants -- both those who rioted and the police. The Stonewall Riots ignited after a police raid took place at the Stonewall Inn. The tension from ongoing harassment galvanized the LGBTQ community to riot for six days. The protest through the streets of Fresh York City is memorialized as the annual Gay Self-acceptance parades that are now celebrated around the world.
It's very American to say, 'This is not right.' It's very American to say, 'You promised equality. You promised freedom.' And, in a sense the Stonewall Riots said, 'Get off our backs. Deliver on the promise.' So in every queer pride parade every year, Stonewall lives. -Virginia Apuzzo, quoted in&nb
How Police Have Failed LGBTQ+ Communities
These occurrences of law enforcement force constitute just some of the many ways in which Gay people are harmed by those supposedly tasked with perpetuating justice. Over-policing and criminal justice system discrimination also disproportionately impact Gay people — particularly LGBTQ+ people of color, who endure cross-cutting discrimination that has myriad unjust consequences.
LGBTQ+ people have historically experienced disparate police harm and been targeted while facing bias across every layer of our universal safety system. For example, commandment enforcement officials have disproportionately profiled transgender people on the basis of their appearance, clothing, and for doing innocuous things, fond traveling to school. Gay men have also been unjustly targeted by law enforcement for decades, with police engaging in undercover operations specifically aiming to criminalize same-sex conduct. Throughout history, police raided bars frequented by Gay people not only in Modern York City, but throughout the country.
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