Though its changed ownership over the years, the Stonewall Inn has stood as a symbol of the gay rights movement for 50 years.
Posted on 06/28/2019 12:10:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
On June 28, 1969, a New York City police raid on a bar in Greenwich Village sparked riots that would go on to launch the modern gay rights movement. Fifty years later, the Stonewall uprising is still recognized throughout the month of June and this year the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities and their allies are hitting the streets again.
Heritage of Pride, the non-profit organization that hosts New York City's official Pride Month events each June, is holding a rally Friday to "re-imagine" the experience of that day 50 years ago.
The Stonewall riots began in the early hours of June 28, 1969, when police conducted a raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar -- the largest in the United States at the time. Raids on gay bars were routine at the time, but on this particular night, the patrons of the bar resisted.
A crowd outside the bar grew angry and began throwing objects at police as they attempted,pted to arrest and haul away people from inside the bar. Police barricaded themselves inside the bar to await reinforcements from the fire department and specialists trained in riot control.
Spontaneous demonstrations broke out at the site and the group marched around the neighborhood, convening at nearby Christopher Park.
The riots and demonstrations were held off and on over the course of another five days or so. For many people in the LGBT communities, the Stonewall riots marked the moment when they could move from living their lives in secret to fighting for equal rights and protections.
Earlier this month, the New York Police Department issued a formal apology for the force's actions during the 1969 riots.
"The actions and the laws were discriminatory and oppressive, and for that, I apologize," Commissioner James P. O'Neill said
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Thanks for the pic!
I CANNOT wait ‘til June is over!
Completely inappropriate. Maybe NYC can celebrate their draft riots against fighting the Civil War as well...
And parents grieve when their children dishonor them in the month of Father’s Day. Repent! Don’t commit suicide, or something equally rebellious and stupid. Just repent. The Creator has mercy and grace. He doesn’t have error.
De Blasio married a woman who at one time identified as “lesbian”. What’s up with that? Did she change? Lady Gaga said she was “born that way”, so how could she marry a man????
Good Lord have mercy.
Oh my gosh.
How many times must this bar be ‘celebrated’?
Are they trying to make a “Graceland” tourist spot out of it?
It was raided because the Mob owned it.
Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed for less.
I’m in my 60s and I never heard of Stonewall until Obama’s second term. Is it just me or did they manufacture this as some sort of significant turning point in homosexual history?
RE: De Blasio married a woman who at one time identified as “lesbian”. What’s up with that? Did she change? Lady Gaga said she was “born that way”, so how could she marry a man????
The political and debating opponent of conservative William F. Buckley, Writer, Gore Vidal was openly gay. However Vidal thought all men and women are potentially bisexual.
According to him, all you have to to is find the right situation to “trigger” those “switches”.
In the September 1969 edition of Esquire, for example, Vidal wrote:
“We are all bisexual to begin with. That is a fact of our condition. And we are all responsive to sexual stimuli from our own as well as from the opposite sex. Certain societies at certain times, usually in the interest of maintaining the baby supply, have discouraged homosexuality. Other societies, particularly militaristic ones, have exalted it. But regardless of tribal taboos, homosexuality is a constant fact of the human condition and it is not a sickness, not a sin, not a crime ... despite the best efforts of our puritan tribe to make it all three. Homosexuality is as natural as heterosexuality. Notice I use the word ‘natural,’ not normal.”
How many of the stonewall alumni have died of AIDS, drug addiction, alcoholism or suicide?
Ask them why Star of David flags are unwelcome
You know that it’s false history because even other countries are celebrating it.
Isn’t that special?
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