23 Facts About Stonewall riots

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The Stonewall riots are widely considered the watershed event that transformed the gay liberation movement and the twentieth-century fight for LGBT rights in the United States.

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Stonewall riots Inn, located at 51 and 53 Christopher Street, along with several other establishments in the city, was owned by the Genovese crime family.

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Stonewall riots employees do not recall being tipped off that a raid was to occur that night, as was the custom.

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Stonewall riots's escaped repeatedly and fought with four of the police, swearing and shouting, for about ten minutes.

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Only known photograph taken during the first night of the Stonewall riots, taken by freelance photographer Joseph Ambrosini, shows the homeless gay youth who slept in nearby Christopher Park, scuffling with police.

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Mattachine Society newsletter a month later offered its explanation of why the Stonewall riots occurred: "It catered largely to a group of people who are not welcome in, or cannot afford, other places of homosexual social gathering.

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Stonewall riots watched someone squirt lighter fluid into the bar; as it was lit and the police took aim, sirens were heard and fire trucks arrived.

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Thousands of people had gathered in front of the Stonewall riots, which had opened again, choking Christopher Street until the crowd spilled into adjoining blocks.

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When Bob Kohler asked for clothes and money to help the homeless youth who had participated in the Stonewall riots, many of whom slept in Christopher Park or Sheridan Square, the response was a discussion on the downfall of capitalism.

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Stonewall riots are often considered to be the origin or impetus of the gay liberation movement, and many studies of LGBT history in the U S are divided into pre- and post-Stonewall analyses.

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The Stonewall riots were not the only time LGBT people organized politically amid attacks on LGBT establishments.

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People who joined activist organizations after the Stonewall riots had very little in common other than their same-sex attraction.

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Stonewall riots marked such a significant turning point that many aspects of prior gay and lesbian culture, such as bar culture formed from decades of shame and secrecy, were forcefully ignored and denied.

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Stonewall riots'storian David Carter remarks in his book about the Stonewall riots that the bar itself was a complex business that represented a community center, an opportunity for the Mafia to blackmail its own customers, a home, and a place of "exploitation and degradation".

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The true legacy of the Stonewall riots, Carter insists, is the "ongoing struggle for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality".

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Stonewall riots has been compared to any number of acts of radical protest and defiance in American history from the Boston Tea Party on.

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The most significant facet of the Stonewall riots, however, was the commemoration of them in Christopher Street Liberation Day, which grew into the annual Gay Pride events around the world.

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The Stonewall riots Awards is an annual event the charity has held since 2006 to recognize people who have affected the lives of British lesbian, gay, and bisexual people.

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19.

The year marked the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, giving journalists and activists cause to reflect on progress made since 1969.

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Two years later, the Stonewall riots Inn served as a rallying point for celebrations after the New York State Senate voted to pass same-sex marriage.

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21.

In 2014, a marker dedicated to the Stonewall riots was included in the Legacy Walk, an outdoor public display in Chicago celebrating LGBT history and people.

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In 2018, 49 years after the uprising, Stonewall riots Day was announced as a commemoration day by Pride Live, a social advocacy and community engagement organization.

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The designation, which followed transfer of city parkland to the federal government, protects Christopher Park and adjacent areas totaling more than seven acres; the Stonewall riots Inn is within the boundaries of the monument but remains privately owned.

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