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The Stonewall Riots: The Evolution Of The LGBT Culture

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The LGBTQ culture has changed over the decades. Homosexuality was illegal in the United States while being looked down upon and banned by Sodomy Laws since the 1600's. A lot has changed since then, according to a 2017 poll by Pew Research Center, "A majority of Americans (62%) support same-sex marriage, while 32% oppose it." The LGBTQ culture has been more accepted into pop culture the past couple of years, but the LGBTQ culture has changed over the decades. The Stonewall riots are credited with being the sparking force for LGBTQ political activism. Before the Stonewall riots, the LGBT culture was repressed. A safe haven for gay men and lesbians were gay bars. Many LGBTQ member did not out themselves due to fear of being fired, shunned by society, …show more content…

The Stonewall riots were the first time the LGBTQ movement had to fight against discrimination. A year after the Stonewall riots in New York on June 28th, 1970, the first Gay Pride Parade took place. There was no floats, or music playing, or scantily clad dancer because the first Gay Pride Parade was a march to make a political statement (Brynn Holland). It was the first time the LGBTQ community was loud, visible, and …show more content…

The LGBTQ culture is now more mainstream than it was before, for example, LGBT characters were under-represented in movies and television. In 1997 Ellen DeGeneres came out as gay, so did her character. The episode won many accolades, but people thought Ellen would suffer a career backlash. Ellen did get the backlash at first, her show got canceled due to low ratings, but she later went on to a successful career as both a TV host and actress (Brynn Holland). Now they are more LGBTQ characters in movies and films because LGBTQ culture has influenced pop

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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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The Stonewall Riots were the spark for the LGBTQ+ rights movement, affecting the social and political environments for people of the LGBTQ+ community. It took decades of organized struggle to get the political and social environment for queer people to where it is today. The watershed moment for that struggle was started in the early morning of June 28, 1969 The Stonewall Riots were an uprising against the prosecution of queer people. They started at around 1:20am on June 28, 1969 when police raided the popular gay bar the Stonewall Inn on Christopher street.

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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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A year later the same day was when the christopher street day liberation march was held. Stone wall was known heavily by the police because they were always down there arresting the queers and fine the establishment. The raiding officers were sometimes rough which turned into making police brutality a common occurrence especially at bars around the country. A raid on june 28 1969 sent fairies, drag queens, trans people and gender nonconforming people on a standoff that lasted 3 days and this is how it became known as the stonewall riots. Months after the riot it sparked a major turning point for the gay rights movement Howard participated in the march as well and Howard also a year later organized the christopher street liberation day march to mark the stonewall riots first anniversary.

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The stonewall riots had a moderate impact on the political and social landscape of America. Historical evidence exhibits that although the stonewall uprising did not change the trajectory of gay rights, it acted as a catalyst for de-stigmatization of LGBTQ+ members. The Stonewall uprising was a 6 day political protest and riot in response to the highly restrictive laws and policies promoting homophobia within America. With politicians and laws promoting homophobia within America from 1950 to 1969, systematic oppression forced queer persons to the outskirts of society. Subsequently, underground organizations became affiliated with queer communities to provide spaces to be openly gay.

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People protest against racial segregation and discrimination leadered by Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X and Andrew Goodman. Fighting for our liberty and race equality they risked and sometimes lost their lives in the name or freedom and equality. This event demonstrates that freedom is the most important right that people should have, they even died for us to have justice, liberty and equality because they knew that it is the only way you can make decisions about you and your benefits to have a good quality of

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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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I do think that we are more acceptable of a society than ever before I mean, you have LGBT genre shows and movies as a category on Netflix, and you have hosts like Thomas Roberts of MSNBC anchoring news broadcasting. I do think if you go through time you will see how the messages have changed—having watched an old sitcom from the 70’s called SOAP, you see how the attitudes of the other characters are to the gay/crossdressing Billy Crystal are. Today though, take the show Modern Family and how accepting characters and viewers alike are of the idea of this Modern Family, this LGBT

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Sammy, a nineteen year old boy who is employed at a grocery store, believes that his manager embarrasses the girls in the store. Sammy is from a world of girls in swimming outfits to no girl’s insight. He is leaving the world of a teenager and transitioning to the world of an adult. He goes through some stages where he is still a young and reckless teenager, but he makes a comment where we can see he is realizing it is time to act his age. At his age, he needs to act responsibly and plan ahead for the future.

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In Mobilizing a Memory, we follow liberal protestant Craig Reynolds as he juggles the transition from the homophile movement to its “rebirth” as a gay liberation movement in the wake of the Stonewall riots. White reveals that from the very outset, Reynolds and other homophile leaders spearheaded the charge to commemorate Stonewall. While some queer activists saw this rebirth at Stonewall as a secular split from oppressive religious control, White argues that in the attempt to “divorce from a religious past,” they created new variations of what they thought they left behind. SHORT JUSTIFY In her next section, Freedom Revival in Lavender, White follows pastor Troy Perry of the Metropolitan Community Church as the remembrance of Stonewall transitions from a local story to a national symbol.

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HISTORY. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Mar. 2017) The LGBT community was swept under the rug, kept secret, but then, they burst into our consciousness and have been working for equality and freedom since. Gays were very oppressed, and were under unfair laws, mostly that their entire existence was illegal.

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David Carter’s book, Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked The Gay Revolution, analyzes the Stonewall riots that occurred during the summer of 1969. Carter views the Stonewall riots as the birth of the Gay Revolution. Carter broke down his book into three sections. The first section was titled, Setting The Stage.

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THE STONEWALL RIOTS The Stonewall riots are widely believed to be the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States. Considered by some to be the "Rosa Parks" moment of the gay rights movement in America, the riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid of the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, New York, in the early hours of June 28th, 1969. This single event has left a resounding impact on the fight for LGBT rights that can still be seen today. Throughout the 50s and 60s in the United States, the FBI along with local police departments kept close watch on what they believed to be "homosexual activity".

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In 1970, on the first anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, the NYC community members marched through the streets in remembrance of the riots. This marched is considered the county's first gay pride parade. During this time, activists also turned the pink triangle into a symbol of gay pride (“Gay Rights”). In the past the triangle was used to discriminate against the homosexuals during World War II. It was placed on people who were believed to be sexual predators.

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Homosexuality was once considered sacred in ancient Rome, albeit being treated poorly since the middle ages. Like this, homosexuality has been suppressed for a long time and thenceforth, the public opinion towards it has been on a downward road until recent years when LGBT groups started stepping up front and coming out along with the increasing controversy towards their rights. The subject of homosexuality has always been polemical. Every once in a while a news article would come up saying something like "Manny Pacquiao provokes storm by calling gay people ‘worse than animals’" or "Sam Smith Talks Coming Out As Gay".

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