A discsn about the Stonewall rts that sparked the gay rights movement. This program was produced by Chigo Accs Network Televisn (CAN TV).
Contents:
- STONEWALL : THE RTS THAT SPARKED THE GAY REVOLUTN
- MEET THE HERO OF THE STONEWALL RTS, A TURNG POT THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER STUDI (LGBTQ): STONEWALL RTS
- STONEWALL: THE RTS THAT SPARKED THE GAY REVOLUTN KDLE EDN
- STONEWALL: THE RTS THAT SPARKED THE GAY REVOLUTN
- STONEWALL: THE RTS THAT SPARKED THE GAY REVOLUTN
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STONEWALL : THE RTS THAT SPARKED THE GAY REVOLUTN
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. * stonewall the riots that sparked the gay revolution *
The Stonewall Rts, also lled the Stonewall Uprisg, began the early hours of June 28, 1969 when New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay club loted Greenwich Village New York Cy.
For stance, solicatn of same-sex relatns was illegal New York such reasons, LGBT dividuals flocked to gay bars and clubs, plac of refuge where they uld exprs themselv openly and socialize whout worry.
MEET THE HERO OF THE STONEWALL RTS, A TURNG POT THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Marsha P. Johnson and others were on the ont l of the Stonewall Rts 1969. Get to know the lears who created a turng pot the gay rights movement. * stonewall the riots that sparked the gay revolution *
However, the New York State Liquor Authory penalized and shut down tablishments that served alhol to known or spected LGBT dividuals, argug that the mere gatherg of homosexuals was “disorrly. But engagg gay behavr public (holdg hands, kissg or dancg wh someone of the same sex) was still illegal, so police harassment of gay bars ntued and many bars still operated whout liquor licens— part bee they were owned by the Rights Before StonewallThe first documented U. In 1966, three years before Stonewall, members of The Mattache Society, an anizatn dited to gay rights, staged a “sip-” where they openly clared their sexualy at taverns, darg staff to turn them away and sug tablishments who did.
When The Commissn on Human Rights led that gay dividuals had the right to be served bars, police raids were temporarily Stonewall Inn The crime syndite saw prof terg to shunned gay clientele, and by the mid-1960s, the Genove crime fay ntrolled most Greenwich Village gay bars. And was one of the few—if not the only—gay bar left that allowed were still a fact of life, but ually rpt ps would tip off Mafia-n bars before they occurred, allowg owners to stash the alhol (sold whout a liquor license) and hi other illegal activi. Stonewall's LegacyThough the Stonewall uprisg didn’t start the gay rights movement, was a galvanizg force for LGBT polil activism, leadg to numero gay rights anizatns, cludg the Gay Liberatn Front, Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD (formerly Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn), and PFLAG (formerly Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays) the one-year anniversary of the rts on June 28, 1970, thoands of people marched the streets of Manhattan om the Stonewall Inn to Central Park what was then lled “Christopher Street Liberatn Day, ” Ameri’s first gay pri para.
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER STUDI (LGBTQ): STONEWALL RTS
On a hot New York night 50 years ago, a police raid on a gay bar rhaped lns of Amerin liv. * stonewall the riots that sparked the gay revolution *
”In 2016, then-Print Barack Obama signated the se of the rts—Stonewall Inn, Christopher Park, and the surroundg streets and siwalks—a natnal monument regnn of the area’s ntributn to gay Gallery The Stonewall Inn is a bar loted New York Cy’s Greenwich Village that served as a haven the 1960s for the cy’s gay, lbian and transgenr muny. Most gay bars and clubs New York at the time were operated by the Mafia, who paid rptible police officers to look the other way and blackmailed wealthy gay patrons by threateng to “out” them. After the Stonewall Rts, a msage was pated on the outsi of the board-up bar readg, "We homosexuals plead wh out people to please help mata peaceful and quiet nduct on the streets of the village.
”Over the next several nights, gay activists ntued to gather near the Stonewall, takg advantage of the moment to spread rmatn and build the muny that would fuel the growth of the gay rights movement. 336 pag, 8 unnumbered pag of plat: 24 cm"In June of 1969, a seri of rts over police actn at The Stonewall Inn, a small, dank, mob-n gay bar Greenwich Village, New York changed the longtime landspe of homosexuals society, lerally overnight. Comg durg a time when lbians and gays were routely closeted and fear of losg their jobs, their apartments, their fai and even their eedom, the rts - barely vered the media at the time - were the spark that led to a new ancy and openns the gay polil movement.
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At the time, the New York State Liquor Authory prohibed venu om servg gay people unr the guise that gay bars were “disorrly” tablishments, and The Stonewall Inn, which was opened by Tony Lria of the Genove crime fay 1967 as a private gay club, was subjected to equent route police raids. Mann says Johnson played an active role stigatg the crowd and fightg back agast police the first night of the uprisg and joed folks throwg over RiveraSylvia Rivera was a trans-Lata sex worker and civil rights activist volved the Black Liberatn Movement, Gay Activist Alliance and GLF. Acrdg to “Stonewall: The Rts That Sparked the Gay Revolutn, the self-clared “Queen of Sex” is one of three people wns say were “ the vanguard" of the phback agast the police force addn to Johnson and Rivera.
Nova was a foundg member of New York Gay Youth — a safe space for LGBTQ+ youth sce the GLF only accepted members over HormonaJackie Hormona, a sex worker, was photographed durg the first night of the Stonewall Rts. Image source, NY Daily News Archive / GettyImage ptn, Tensns rose on the street after the raidWhen half a dozen police officers raid a Mafia-n gay bar on a hot New York night 50 years ago, ltle did they know their actns would spark a movement that rhaped the liv of generatns to didn't throw a brick that night.
STONEWALL: THE RTS THAT SPARKED THE GAY REVOLUTN
An hour earlier, the police had raid the bar Greenwich Village for the send time that week, but this time on a Friday night at 1am when was 200 ctomers - lbians, gay men, transgenr people, naway teenagers and drag queens - were thrown out on to Christopher Street. Gay people were ed to nng om the police, but this time they were the on on the advance and the men uniform on the gay rights movement didn't start that night but was vigorated by what happened the hours and days after the first was thrown. And jt as Ms Parks' refal to give up her seat on a b Alabama to a whe man had the effect of animatg the civil rights movement 14 years before, so Stonewall electrified the ph for gay equaly.
STONEWALL: THE RTS THAT SPARKED THE GAY REVOLUTN
Even what you wore was policed - fewer than three piec of clothg emed appropriate to your genr uld put you was a huge amount of anger bee gay people had no polil power to prevent this, says William Eskridge, a profsor at Yale Law School. The rally anised by Shelley and Robson do not get the same billg the history books as the big gay rights march the followg year, which has bee known as the first Pri was hugely signifint. But s creatn marked the start of a new era, leadg to a wave of new activist groups like the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) and the radil lbian group Lavenr Menace of which Shelley was a founr member.
STONEWALL: THE RTS THAT SPARKED THE GAY REVOLUTN
In the that followed, the feral exclns on gays and lbians were lifted, and the medil profsn reversed s long-held belief that homosexuals need psychiatric Milk beme one of the first openly gay elected officials the US, 1977 San Francis. Two years later, about 100, 000 people took part a natnal march on Washgton - probably at that pot the biggt gatherg of gay people of the anti-sodomy laws were stck down the 1980s, makg homosexualy effectively legal, although was s before gay marriage beme a ferally-regnised right 2015.
The legal progrs was matched by a change attus - three-quarters of Amerins are today acceptg of gay 2019, there are still battl to fight - gay people n still be fired om their jobs many stat. It's therefore worth reflectg on how much me out of that police raid on a Mafia bar, says David Carter, thor of Stonewall: The Rts that Sparked the Gay Revolutn, which is regard as the five acunt of what happened.