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Essay On The Stonewall Riots

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The Stonewall Riots are often credited as the start of the modern LGBTQ+ movement. Not only do people call it the start of the LGBTQ+ movement one can also see all the important social and political changes in favor of the queer community after the Stonewall uprising. The Stonewall Riots sparked the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement because it provided solidarity. In the article Gay Power Comes to Sheridan Square journalist Lucian Truscott talks to poet Allen Ginsberg on the Sunday night of the riots. Allen Ginsberg describes the feeling of pride that the Stonewall Riots prompted "You know, the guys there [at the Stonewall Inn] were so beautiful — they've lost that wounded look that fags all had 10 years ago." The feeling of gay pride and gay …show more content…

In the 1970s 19 states repealed their anti-sodomy laws.(ACLU) It is also important to recognize that Illinois repealed their anti-sodomy in 1961, eight years before the Stonewall Riots. The new gay power and pride made queer people feel more secure in being out. This lead to the public seeing gay people not as a covert evil menace, but they were able it start accepting them for who they were.
One can see the clear difference between the social and political climate for queer people in 1900s and in 2010. One noticeable difference is the language that is seen as acceptable by society and the language people use in general. In an article Lucian Truscott IV wrote about the Stonewall Riots in 1969 he regularly uses the gay slur faggot “The forces of faggotry, spurred by a Friday…” there was no evident backlash to his liberal use of the gay slur. In contrast when comedian Bob Hope, while on the Tonight Show in 1988, called an audience member a “fag” for wearing a colorful tie, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Discrimination (GLAAD) successfully pressured him into apologizing. Not only did the gay rights organization get Hope to apologize they also had him record a PSA condemning anti-gay language.(The

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In his article ‘Movements before Stonewall need to be remembered, too’, Adam Dupuis discusses the fact that while the Stonewall Uprising was an important event in LGBT history, the events before it should not be dismissed as lesser. The author emphasizes the Annual Reminders, seminal protests which took place in Philadelphia every Fourth of July from 1965 to 1969. Not only were the Annual Reminders the first sustained LGBT demonstrations, but they were the first gay rights protests to have members from multiple cities, with forty activists from Washington, D.C., New York, and Pennsylvania participating. However, these events were discontinued upon the occurrence of the Stonewall Riot in 1969, when the organizers of the Reminders made the decision

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“A group of people decided they’d had enough. They took a stand and in doing so began the New York Gay Activist movement. Which eventually spread to other parts of the country…. I very much doubt they know the impact of their decision to stand firm that day in 1969, but it’s because of those people that gay rights exist in this country today,” Lynley Wayne, LGBT Writer. Everyday people are trying to stand up for themselves.

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The Stonewall Riots are a perfect example of a group of people being stigmatized and persecuted for being outside of what's considered normal. It is an iconic example of discrimination and persecution of the LGBT community in America. Not many establishments welcomed openly gay people in the 1960’s. The businesses that did accept them tended to be gay bars. One place in particular that did so was The Stonewall Inn in New York City.

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The riots at the Stonewall Inn served as a catalyst for the LGBT rights movement. This movement then went on to make strides in the acceptance and equality of the LGBT community. After Stonewall, people came to the realization that it was successful because they were loud and unyielding about what they wanted (Dudley 243). As a result, the LGBT community began planning events such as marches and pride parades to communicate their goals, and these demonstrations eventually evolved into the LGBT rights movement. From the Stonewall riots to present day there have been many achievements made by LGBT community, one of these achievements being equality.

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On June 28, 1969, a police raid took place at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, which is in Manhattan, New York. Three drag queens and a lesbian were arrested for no stated reason. The on looking crowd grew violent and it turned into a riot. This was considered a hate crime. It’s known as the Stonewall Riots and it brought the SAGA (LGBTQIA+) community close together and started up pride movements.

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