<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
Contents:
- PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI
- ROBERT SHEEHAN DON'T WANT HIS UMBRELLA AMY CHARACTER TO BE LABELLED AS JT "THE GAY ONE"
PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI
* the gay umbrella *
Over the past week New York Cy, hundreds of homosexuals had fought police a week-long rt Greenwich Village, followg a botched police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a mafia-n bar equented by LGBTQ+ people. And secretly wh myself I cid that when I me back stati, if I should survive to e back stati, I would e out as a gay person. Followg this explosn of rage, LGBTQ+ people New York and further afield transformed the small pre-existg gay rights movement.
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ROBERT SHEEHAN DON'T WANT HIS UMBRELLA AMY CHARACTER TO BE LABELLED AS JT "THE GAY ONE"
Wh a sgle lifetime, homosexualy has moved om beg a crime and a psychiatric disorr, punished the US by imprisonment, chemil stratn, social ostracisatn and a lifetime as a registered sex offenr, to a socially and legally regnised sexual inty.