The Stonewall Rts, also lled the Stonewall Uprisg, took place on June 28, 1969, New York Cy, after police raid the Stonewall Inn, a lol gay club. The raid sparked a rt among bar patrons and neighborhood rints as police hled employe and patrons out of the bar, leadg to six days of protts and vlent clash. The Stonewall Rts served as a talyst for the gay rights movement.
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NEW YORK CY GETS READY FOR THE BATTLE OF THE LGBT PRI MARCHSTONEWALL 50THE QUEER LIBERATN MARCH WILL HAPPEN ON THE SAME DAY AS THE NYC PRI MARCH AS A STONEWALL-ECHOG PROTT, SAY ANIZERS, AGAST THE LATTER’S EMBRACE OF RPORATNS AND PS.TIM TEEMANSENR EDOR AND WRERUPDATED MAY 21, 2019 12:34PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAY 16, 2019 4:44AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEAST/IMAGERY OM RECLAIM PRI COALNDO TWO LGBT PRI MARCH NEW YORK CY TAKG PLACE ON THE SAME DAY NEXT MONTH SHOW THE FAILURE OF PRI TO ACMODATE EVERYONE, OR THE ACCEPTANCE THAT PRI MEANS VERY DIFFERENT THGS TO VERY DIFFERENT PEOPLE? DO THE PRENCE OF TWO MARCH SYMBOLIZE ACTURE AT A TIME WHEN THE LGBT MUNY WOULD BE BETTER PLACED TO E TOGETHER TO FACE DOWN MON HOMOPHOBIC FO, OR IS A SIGN OF HEALTHY PLURALY, A TE SHOWG OF HOW DIVERSE THE LGBT MUNY IS, AND A TIMELY OPPORTUNY TO ENGAGE VOLUBLE POLIL PROTT? ON SUNDAY, JUNE 30, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO TAKE YOUR PRACTIL AND PHILOSOPHIL PICK (OR DO BOTH) BETWEEN TWO VERY DIFFERENT PRI MARCH NEW YORK CY.THE MA NYC PRI MARCH, ANIZED BY HERAGE OF PRI, SETS OFF AT NOON THE SHADOW OF THE FLATIRON BUILDG, OM 26TH STREET AND FIFTH AVENUE, MAKG S WAY DOWNTOWN TO GREENWICH VILLAGE AND THE STONEWALL INN, BEFORE SWCHG TO E UPTOWN AND FISHG AT 23RD STREET AND SEVENTH AVENUE. (THIS IS GOOD, IF EVABLY CHAOTIC, NEWS FOR MY EXCELLENT LOL DER, THE MALIBU, ON THAT VERY RNER.) FOUR LN PEOPLE ARE EXPECTED TO ATTEND—THIS YEAR NOT ONLY MARKS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE STONEWALL RTS, BUT IS ALSO WORLD PRI. ORGANIZERS EXPECT NEW YORK CY TO BE BURSTG AT THE SEAMS WH LGBT PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD.THE BREAKAWAY QUEER LIBERATN MARCH, ANIZED BY THE RECLAIM PRI COALN, BEGS EARLIER, AT 9:30 A.M. THAT DAY, ON SEVENTH AVENUE, JT BELOW CHRISTOPHER STREET—SO WH SIGHT OF THE STONEWALL—BEFORE HEADG ACROSS WT 10TH STREET TO SIXTH AVENUE, AND THEN AN EPIC URBAN MARCH NORTH TO CENTRAL PARK, ENTERG AT 59TH STREET AND SIXTH AVENUE BEFORE A PLANNED RALLY ON THE GREAT LAWN. IT IS A REPLITN OF THE ROUTE TAKEN BY THE MARCHERS OF THE FIRST PRI MARCH, THEN KNOWN AS THE CHRISTOPHER STREET DAY LIBERATN MARCH, 1970.THE 2019 MARCH HAS BEEN ANIZED BY THE RECLAIM PRI COALN BEE OF WHAT SE AS THE OVER-RPORATIZATN OF THE MA EVENT AND THE PRENCE OF POLICE BOTH MARCHG AND PATROLLG AT ; THE PS’ PRENCE IS SEEN AS PROBLEMATIC BY THE RECLAIM PRI COALN BEE OF THE POLICE'S PAST HOMOPHOBIA.THE QUEER LIBERATN MARCH PROUDLY BOASTS NO RPORATE FLOATS, ALTHOUGH SOME POLICE WILL BE ON HAND, ALONGSI TRAED MARSHALS, AS THE MARCH WENDS S WAY NORTH OM GREENWICH VILLAGE. IT HAS BEEN ENDORSED BY MORE THAN 100 ANIZATNS.THE EXISTENCE OF TWO MARCH MAY SEEM EVABLE TO THOSE WHO HAVE FOLLOWED THE YEARS-LONG SAGA THAT PS THE LARGE MARCH—WH S RAFT OF BIG-NAME SPONSORS, ATTEND AND APPLD BY THOANDS WATCHG OM THE SIWALKS—AGAST THOSE ON THE GAY LEFT WHO THK THAT THE MARCH HAS BEE TOO BLOATED AND TOO HOCK WH THOSE SPONSORS AND CERTA GROUPGS, LIKE THE POLICE OR ARY, THAT MARCH THE PARA. SIAR NTROVERSI HAVE FLARED NEW YORK AND AT MANY OTHER PRIS, CLUDG CI LIKE WASHGTON, D.C., AND MNEAPOLIS, RECENT YEARS.FOR MANY, THERE HAS BEEN A SIRE FOR THE PRI MARCH TO RETURN TO BE EXACTLY THAT, AND TO BE FOCED ON ANGRY AND ENERGETIC MANDS FOR LGBT EQUALY, PECIALLY NOW THAT THE HARD-WON RIGHTS OF LGBT PEOPLE ARE IMPERILED UNR AN AGGRSIVELY ANTI-LGBT TMP ADMISTRATN. RECLAIM PRI COALN THAT WILL BE THE FUNDAMENTAL APPEAL TO MANY OF THE BREAKAWAY MARCH; RECTOMIZ THE PRI MARCH AS AN OVERT PROTT MARCH. YOU WILL NOT HAVE TO BE A GROUP OR PART OF A RPORATN TO TAKE PART , AS YOU MT BE TO PARTICIPATE THE MA MARCH, WHICH THIS YEAR WILL HAVE 160 FLOATS, ROUGHLY SPL HALF AND HALF BETWEEN RPORATE AND MUNY GROUPS.CATHY RENNA, SPOKPERSON OF HERAGE OF PRI, TOLD THE DAILY BEAST: “OUR MARCH HAS ALWAYS BEEN A EE SPEECH MARCH. IN FACT RECLAIM MARCHED THE NYC PRI MARCH LAST YEAR.” HERAGE OF PRI MET WH THE RECLAIM PRI COALN, SAID RENNA; NVERSATNS WERE HAD, AND “JT AS THE LARGER MUNY, THERE WAS SOME DISAGREEMENT ABOUT SOME OF THE ISSU, AND SO THEY HAVE CID TO DO A SEPARATE MARCH.”RENNA SAID HERAGE OF PRI HAD EXTEND S PRI PERM OF THAT DAY TO THE NEW MARCH, MEANG THE RECLAIM PRI COALN ULD START S MARCH NEAR THE STONEWALL.“WE’RE ABOUT TO EXPERIENCE THE LARGT PRI EVENT HISTORY NEW YORK CY,” SAID RENNA. “THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF EVENTS HAPPENG. WE WANT ALL THOSE EVENTS TO BE SUCCSFUL. WE UNRSTAND THE CHALLENG AND DISAGREEMENTS WH THE MUNY AROUND SPECIFIC ISSU. NYC PRI GRAPPL WH THEM AS MUCH AS THE RECLAIM PRI COALN DO.” “ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF STONEWALL, ’S REALLY IMPORTANT TO GO BACK TO THE RADIL ROOTS OF THE REBELLN.”— TERRY ROETHLE, RECLAIM PRI COALN ANIZER TERRY ROETHLE, AN ANIZER WH THE RECLAIM PRI COALN, SAID WAS HOPG FOR A CROWD NUMBER “THE TENS OF THOANDS.” INTERT HAD CREASED EXPONENTIALLY SCE THE GROUP ANNOUNCED THE MARCH ON TUDAY, HE SAID. “ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF STONEWALL, ’S REALLY IMPORTANT TO GO BACK TO THE RADIL ROOTS OF THE REBELLN, FIGHTG BACK AGAST UNEQUAL STATE NTROL,” ROETHLE SAID. “THE PRENT MARCH IS HIGHLY ENGAGED RPORATNS AND ALSO POLICG—THOSE TWO TIED TOGETHER. THE TE MEANG OF THE ACTUAL REBELLN WAS THE QUEER MUNY STAG A POSN OF FIGHTG FOR MORE, AND CHALLENGG STATE AND RPORATE NTROL TO GET MORE LIBERATN OUR LIV.”WHEN ME TO RPORATE SPONSORSHIP AND THE SIZE OF THE EVENT, RENNA SAID: “OUR MUNY NOT LONG AGO WOULD HAVE BEGGED FOR SUPPORT OM PANI AND RPORATNS, SO WE ULD HAVE THE EVENTS A SAFE AND ACCEPTABLE WAY.” THE PRENCE OF SUCH PANI, AND WHAT THEY FANCIALLY NTRIBUTED, MEANT PRI EVENTS ULD BE EE OF CHARGE, SHE ADD. “THE ANIZATNS DON’T JT SUPPORT PRI JUNE, BUT ALL YEAR ’ROUND, AND IF WE DIDN’T HAVE RPORATE SUPPORT FOR THOSE THGS, WHERE WOULD THE MONEY E OM?” SHE ASKED. RENNA ALSO NOTED THE LOBBYG POWER AND SUPPORT OM RPORATNS STAT LIKE NORTH CAROLA AND TEXAS, WHERE ANTI-LGBT BILLS HAD BEEN TRODUCED. THE OPPOSN OF PANI LIKE APPLE TO SUCH IATIV HAS BEEN SIGNIFINT. “WE LIVE THE UNED STAT, A PALIST UNTRY WHERE ‘MONEY TALKS AND BS WALKS,’ AS MY FATHER WAS FOND OF SAYG,” SAID RENNA.THE RECLAIM PRI COALN WAS “THE OCCUPY WALL STREET” OF THE MOVEMENT, SHE ADD. THIS WASN’T A DIG. “IT IS BRGG REAL AND SER AWARENS OF THE ISSU. BUT RPORATNS HAVE MA SOCIALLY RPONSIVE CISNS ON OUR BEHALF. SIMPLY SAYG, ‘NO RPORATNS AT PRI’ IS LIKE THROWG THE BABY OUT WH THE BATHWATER.” THERE WERE “FELY SOME GOOD ELEMENTS TO THE HERAGE OF PRI MARCH,” ROETHLE NCED. “BUT WE HAD MULTIPLE NVERSATNS WH LEARSHIP AND WASN’T SKG . THERE WAS TOO MUCH PARTY PLANNG, TOO MUCH RPORATE TERT NNECTED TO MODIFITN AND NSUMPTN. I DON’T SEE HOW THEY N BACK DOWN OM THAT, BUT WE HAVE NO ANIMOSY TOWARDS HERAGE OF PRI AT ALL. WE JT MATA THAT A PRI MARCH SHOULD BE POLILLY ENGAGED AND A PROTT MARCH. “I DON’T FEEL THEIR MARCH SHOULD END. WE ARE JT FOCED ON OURS BEG THE BIGGT AND MOST MUNY-BASED MARCH N BE. WE REALLY WANT THIS TO BE FLASHPOT, SHOWG THAT PEOPLE N CHANGE HOW THGS THE MUNY ARE DONE.”NEW YORK CY ALREADY HOSTED SEPARATE MARCH WH A LBIAN, TRANS, AND DRAG FOC, ROETHLE POTED OUT.WHEN ME TO THE MA MARCH, PEOPLE WANTED TO MARCH, WHICH THEY WERE CURRENTLY PREVENTED OM DOG, SAID ROETHLE, UNLS THEY WERE PART OF A GROUP OR RPORATN. “ON THE DAY, ’S RPORATNS WHO GET THE MEDIA VERAGE, AND MUNY GROUPS FD THEIR MSAGE IS LOST.”FOR LGBT PEOPLE NOT AFFILIATED WH A LARGER GROUPG, “THERE ARE TOO MANY BARRIS, AND TOO MANY POLICE,” SAID ROETHLE. “IT’S BEE A SPECTATOR THG, NOT A MUNY ACTIVY. PEOPLE SAY THAT TO , THAT THEY N’T STAND THE RPORATE FLOATS AND JT BASIC LACK OF MOBILY ON THE DAY—BEG ABLE TO CROSS STREETS OR GET TO SUBWAYS.”RENNA RELLED AND CHERISHED THE PROTT MARCH OF YORE, SHE SAID. “BUT TODAY’S WORLD THE SIZE AND SPE OF MANY OF THE EVENTS MEANS ’S A SAFETY ISSUE. WE’RE NEW YORK CY. YOU N’T HAVE SEVERAL LN PEOPLE AT AN EVENT AND NOT HAVE NYPD AND HOMELAND SECURY. YOU HAVE TO REALIZE WE ARE A TREMENDO SOFT TARGET. THE [ANTI-LGBT] CLIMATE WE ARE LIVG NOW MEANS ’S MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER THAT WE KEEP EVENTS SAFE AND ACCSIBLE. WE HAVE SEEN HATE CRIM SPIKE. IT’S A REAL CHALLENGE AND STGGLE TO FD THE BALANCE.” “WHEN I TALK TO LARGER MUNY POPULATNS, WHAT I HEAR THE MOST IS HOW N WE IMPROVE RELATNS WH, AND BEHAVR OF, THOSE WH LAW ENFORCEMENT UNLS WE HAVE OUT QUEER LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSIZG THEIR LLEAGU? HOW DO EXCLUDG THE POLICE PLETELY HELP THE SUATN ANY?”— CATHY RENNA, SPOKPERSON FOR HERAGE OF PRI THE POLICG ISSUE IS ONE OF PRENCE ON THE STREETS PROTECTG PUBLIC AND MARCHERS, AND ALSO AS MARCHERS THEMSELV.FOR RENNA, THE POLICE ARE VAL TO PROTECT AND SERVE THE PUBLIC THAT DAY, AND THE FACT THAT THE PS MARCH IS PART OF THE PLURALY OF WHO IS MARCHG, SHE SAID, ALONGSI GROUPS LIKE THE RECLAIM PRI COALN. THE MA PRI MARCH SHOULD ACMODATE EVERYONE, SHE SAID.“WHEN I TALK TO LARGER MUNY POPULATNS, WHAT I HEAR THE MOST IS HOW N WE IMPROVE RELATNS WH, AND BEHAVR OF, THOSE WH LAW ENFORCEMENT UNLS WE HAVE OUT QUEER LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSIZG THEIR LLEAGU? HOW DO EXCLUDG THE POLICE PLETELY HELP THE SUATN ANY? IS PERFECT? NO. IS THE ONLY THG WE SHOULD DO? ABSOLUTELY NOT. BUT WHAT WE’RE TRYG TO DO HERE IS ADDRS DIVERSE NCERNS OM EXTRAORDARILY DIVERSE MUNY.”RENNA SAID HERAGE OF PRI WAS WORKG WH THE NYC ANTI-VLENCE PROJECT TO ENSURE THAT ALL LGBT PEOPLE’S PRI-RELATED TERACTNS WH POLICE WERE RPECTFUL. “IF ANYONE IS MISTREATED OR, GOD FORBID, ANYTHG WORSE, THERE WILL BE A MECHANISM TO REPORT THAT.” (IN FACT, THE AVP HOTLE IS TEND TO PROVI LGBTQ PEOPLE WH A ROURCE TO REPORT ALL KDS OF VLENCE, AND IS NOT FOCED ON CINTS VOLVG POLICE SPECIFILLY.)FOR ROETHLE, HOWEVER, “AT PRI, WE N REALLY SEE THE CREEPG POLICE STATE G UP SCE 9/11 IMPACTG SOMETHG AS HARMLS AS AN LGBT POLIL MARCH.”WHEN TO THE QUEER LIBERATN MARCH, SAID ROETHLE, THE ALN WANTED AS “LTLE POLICE PRENCE AS POSSIBLE, AND NONE WOULD BE FE. IT WILL BE MIMAL ANYWAY, BEE MOST OF THEM WILL BE DOG THE OTHER MARCH. OUR MARSHALS MEAN WE WILL BE ANIZG OUR OWN SECURY.”WOULD THAT REALLY GUARANTEE MARCHERS’ SAFETY?“THIS IA THAT GUARANTEEG OUR SAFETY: YOU’RE NEVER GOG TO GET THAT 100 PERCENT,” SAID ROETHLE. “Y, THERE HAVE BEEN BASHGS ON PRI DAY, BUT I MYSELF HAVE NEVER HEARD OF ANYONE G TO THE MARCH AND DOG SOMETHG MALEVOLENT. I REALLY DON’T THK THERE’S A NEED FOR THAT EXTENT OF POLICG. PEOPLE SHOULD FEEL FORTABLE AROUND A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE AND MARSHALS AND WHAT IS PUBLIC SPACE.” “THE MON ENEMY IS NOT EACH OTHER, ’S NOT RPORATE SPONSORS. THE ENEMY IS THE TMP ADMISTRATN, WHICH IS TRYG TO RENR VISIBLE. THE PRINT HAS CREATED A CLIMATE OF HATE AGAST QUEER PEOPLE, PEOPLE OF LOR, WOMEN, AND PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT RELIGNS. WE SHOULD BE G TOGETHER.”— CATHY RENNA THE PROSPECT OF TWO MARCH, AND THE ISSU FLOWG OM , SAID RENNA MA HER FEEL “LIKE WE’RE ONE OF THOSE SUATNS WHERE A CIRCULAR FIRG SQUAD HAS BEEN CREATED. THE MON ENEMY IS NOT EACH OTHER, ’S NOT RPORATE SPONSORS. THE ENEMY IS THE TMP ADMISTRATN, WHICH IS TRYG TO RENR VISIBLE. THE PRINT HAS CREATED A CLIMATE OF HATE AGAST QUEER PEOPLE, PEOPLE OF LOR, WOMEN, AND PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT RELIGNS. WE SHOULD BE G TOGETHER.”“WE’RE ALL FOR UNY,” ROETHLE SAID. “ANYONE WHO WANTS N JO OUR MARCH. WE’RE SETTG THE TONE. THIS IS THE PRIMARY MARCH. THIS IS THE MARCH TT TO THE SPIR OF THE STONEWALL REBELLN. AND UNY GO BOTH WAYS. PEOPLE N GO TO OR THE HERAGE OF PRI MARCH. OR DO BOTH.” “MY GOAL IS THAT MORE AND MORE PEOPLE E TO THE QUEER LIBERATN MARCH. IT’S THE ONLY TE FN OF WHAT THE PRI MARCH SHOULD BE.”— TERRY ROETHLE THE POSIVE RPONSE TO THE QUEER LIBERATN MARCH SHOWED, SAID ROETHLE, “THE GROWTH OF SIRE FOR POLIL TN AND ENGAGEMENT THE LGBTQ MUNY. IT SHOWS A RISTANCE TO MERELY CELEBRATG THIS ERA OF TMP AND THREATS TO LGBTQ PEOPLE GLOBALLY. IT SHOWS PEOPLE REALLY WANT TO ENGAGE AND DO SOMETHG MUNY-BASED AND ACTIVE. MY GOAL IS THAT MORE AND MORE PEOPLE E TO THE QUEER LIBERATN MARCH. IT’S THE ONLY TE FN OF WHAT THE PRI MARCH SHOULD BE.”“I DON’T BUY THAT WEAKENS ,” SAID ROETHLE OF HAVG THE TWO MARCH, AND THE POLIL DISAGREEMENTS BEHD THE MOVE. “MORE NVERSATN, MORE DIFFERENCE OF OPN, MORE PHG UP AGAST EACH OTHER, MORE DISCSN AND BATE IS ALWAYS HEALTHY. AMERINS HAVE FALLEN WAY TOO EPLY TO THE MO OF ‘JT LEAVE THGS AS THEY ARE.’ THAT’S WHY THGS ARE GETTG WORSE.” TIM TEEMAN
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