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Stonewall Rebellion

From Culture Wars in America: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices
The Stonewall riots, also known as the Stonewall rebellion, took on mythic importance for the gay rights movement. In the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar located in Greenwich Village, New York City. Raids of nightclubs and other venues frequented by gays were common in large American cities during the middle decades of the twentieth century, when repression of homosexuality and gender-bending were at their height. Bar patrons ordinarily complied with orders to leave the premises and passively accepted arrest if they were unable to produce identification. On this particular night, however, the patrons, many of whom were transvestites, resisted the police action, and a raucous crowd joined them outside the bar. Part of the legend of Stonewall is that the mood of some of the gay patrons was especially sour because of the recent death of Judy Garland, a gay icon whose funeral had been held in New York earlier that day. The riots lasted for…
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Full text Article STONEWALL/STONEWALL RIOTS

From Historical Dictionary of the Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements
The three days of riots that erupted after police raided the Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich Village, New York City, gay bar , on the night of 27 June 1969 and early morning of 28 June. This raid has come to mark the birth of the contemporary national Gay and Lesbian and Rights Movement in the United…
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Full text Article Stonewall Riots

From World of Criminal Justice, Gale
The Stonewall Riots was a three-day civil disorder in 1969 involving citizens of the Greenwich Village section of New York City who protested the treatment of homosexuals by the New York Police Department (NYPD). The event that sparked the disorder was a police raid on June 28, 1969 at a club, the…
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Full text Article Stonewall Rebellion, Anniversary of the

From Cultural Studies: Holidays Around the World
The Stonewall Inn was a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village that was raided by the police on June 27, 1969. Police frequently monitored the bar and undertook occasional raids in the past, but on that Friday night, the encounter turned explosive. As the outraged crowd threw stones and…
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The Stonewall Inn, 1969, with a sign that reads:...
Introduction 197 This chapter looks at several seminal events that have since been seen as marking the establishment of a national LGBTQ+ rights movement in the United States. The 1960s and 70s saw an explosion of LGBTQ activism around the country. In cities like Los Angeles and New York, LGBTQ…
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Full text Article Stonewall Riots

From The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies
The Stonewall Riots, a series of New York City protests with significant trans participation, began in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969. The riots erupted after police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar with clientele that included crossdressers, drag queens, street queens, …
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Full text Article Stonewall riots

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
(June 28, 1969) Series of violent confrontations between police and gay rights activists in New York City. In response to the second raid in a week by police on the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in Greenwich Village that had been selling liquor without a license, about 1,000 gays, lesbians, and…
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Full text Article Stonewall Riots, International Effects of

From Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History
A Crowd Attempts to Impede Police Arrests during...
The global impact of the 1969 riots at the Stonewall Inn, which marked a symbolic turning point in gay rights activism . The Stonewall riots, which began in the early hours of Saturday, 28 June 1969, are often credited as the spark that set gay liberation alight, not just in the United States, but…
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Full text Article New York Gay Pride March

From Cultural Studies: Holidays Around the World
In the early morning of June 28, 1969, police conducted a raid at the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village. Tensions between police and the gay community erupted following the raid, leading to days of violent protests and demonstrations. The Stonewall Riots, as they…
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Full text Article Stonewall Rebellion

From Culture Wars in America: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices
The Stonewall riots, also known as the Stonewall rebellion, took on mythic importance for the gay rights movement. In the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar located in Greenwich Village, New York City. Raids of nightclubs and other venues frequented by…
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Full text Article Cooper Do-nuts Riot

From The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies
The Cooper Do-nuts Riot was a May 1959 trans protest against police harassment that took place at the Cooper Do-nuts in downtown Los Angeles. Like the uprisings at Dewey’s restaurant in Philadelphia in April and May 1965, Compton’s Cafeteria in San Francisco in August 1966, and the Black Cat Tavern…
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