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The 1969 Stonewall Rts marked a historic turng pot for gay rights, but several smaller uprisgs preced Stonewall as LGBTQ muni phed back agast harassment and equaly.

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PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI

<strong>The long read</strong>: A police raid on a gay bar New York led to the birth of the Pri movement half a century ago – but the fight for LGBTQ+ rights go back much further than that * evergreens lgbt protestors *

While there’s no nyg Stonewall was a key turng pot for the movement, was not nearly the first notable nontatn between LGBTQ people and the early 1950s, there was a burgeong movement of gay men, lbians, and transgenr people fightg for their civil rights.

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The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage. * evergreens lgbt protestors *

"As the homophile movement of the 1950s grew stronger to the 60s and 70s, ” says Marc Ste, profsor of history at San Francis State Universy, “LGBTQ people began to feel embolned and disvered the urage they need durg a powerful perd of social movements. But three teenagers cid that they wouldn’t police were lled and the three were arrted, addn to Clark Polak, a gay-rights lear Phililphia who shed to the scene to help the three protters obta a lawyer, and was subsiquently arrted by police. Dewey’s agreed to stop nyg LGBTQ people by Henry Lel, via the Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Transgenr Historil SocietyCompton's Cafeteria Rt, San Francis, 1966In Augt 1966, after management and police harassed a group of transgenr women and drag queens at Compton’s Cafeteria San Francis—a late-night hangout for many lol queers and sex workers at the time—the cy’s LGBTQ muny rpond wh two nights of was not the first time that ctomers of Compton’s had clashed wh the police, but on this summer night, clientele had had enough.

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