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	Stonewall riots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Stonewall riots, which as a whole is often called the Stonewall Rebellion, were a series of violent conflicts between lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, and queer persons and police officers in New York City.
		"Stonewall," as the raids are often referred to, is generally considered a turning point for the modern gay rights movement worldwide, as it is one of the first times in modern history a significant body of gay people resisted arrest.
		However, historians still differ on whether her death's proximity to the Stonewall riots was mere coincidence, or if it was a true cause of the riots.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stonewall_riots (1689 words)

	Stonewall Inn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stonewall Inn was the site of the famous Stonewall riots of 1969, which have come to symbolize the beginning of the gay liberation movement in the United States.
		Stonewall is regarded as the single most important event that led to the modern movement for gay and lesbian civil rights.
		In June 1999, the Stonewall Inn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its historic significance to gay and lesbian history.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stonewall_Inn (202 words)

	Stonewall riots
		The Stonewall Riots that ensued are considered the birth of militant gay rights and ushered in the era of gay pride.
		The Stonewall Riots are considered the birth of militant gay rights and ushered in the era of gay pride and the dawn of disco.
		According to reports, the Stonewall Inn, a two-story structure with a sand pained brick and opaque glass facade, was a mecca for the homosexual element in the village who wanted nothing but a private little place where they could congregate, drink, dance and do whatever little girls do when they get together.
	www.jahsonic.com /Stonewall.html (1621 words)

	Book: Stonewall
		The Stonewall Inn was a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village.
		In the years since 1969, the Stonewall riots have become the central symbolic event of the modern gay movement.
		This landmark book does even more: it unforgettably demonstrates that the Stonewall riots were not the beginning -- just as they were certainly not the end -- of the ongoing struggle for gay and lesbian rights.
	www.uwm.edu /Dept/OSL/LGBT/library/details/2806.html (245 words)

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		The play was about the Stonewall riots and their effect on ending antigay oppression in America.
		The legend of the Stonewall was born as another legend died.
		Stonewall management found it difficult to keep their customers inside Saturday night, since all the action was outside.
	www.qrd.org /qrd/misc/text/stonewall.history-ADVOCATE (6085 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Books / A riveting look at the Stonewall riots
		For six days, what would come to be known as the Stonewall Riots continued intermittently, with the swelling, agitated crowd pelting the cops with loose change, bottles, even Molotov cocktails.
		David Carter's riveting "Stonewall" presents not only the definitive examination of the riots but an absorbing history of pre-Stonewall America, and how the oppression and pent-up rage of those years finally ignited on a hot New York night.
		Her wild resistance inflamed the crowd, which turned on the police with such malice and menace the officers were forced to barricade themselves inside the bar.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2004/06/08/a_riveting_look_at_the_stonewall_riots (642 words)

	National Historic Landmarks Program (NHL)
		This raid and the riot that ensued led to demonstrations and conflicts with the police outside the Stonewall Inn, in Christopher Park, and along neighboring streets until July 3, 1969.
		Stonewall is regarded by many as the single most important event that led to the modern gay and lesbian liberation movement.
		The Stonewall uprising was, as historian Lillian Faderman has written, "the shot heard round the world," crucial because it sounded the rally for the movement.
	tps.cr.nps.gov /nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=-1888210723&ResourceType=Site (253 words)

	Greenwich Village Gazette The Stonewall Police Riot
		The Stonewall Inn at 51 Christopher Street opened in 1930, in street level space which was created by joining two former stables built ninety years earlier.
		The Stonewall was a second home to those who were considered too outrageous to be allowed entry to the strait-laced jazz club two doors down.
		Annual parades are now held at the end of June in most American cities to commemorate the Stonewall riot and the movement for gay rights that began on that night.
	www.gvny.com /content/history/stonewall.htm (402 words)

	Stonewall
		The Stonewall Inn, (named after the Confederate General 'Stonewall' Jackson), was a gay bar (said to be sleazy and Mafia-run) at 51-53 Christopher Street just east of Sheridan Square in New York's Greenwich Village.
		The confrontations between demonstrators and police at The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village over the weekend of June 27-29, 1969 are usually cited as the beginning of the modern movement for Lesbian/Gay liberation.
		The Stonewall riots have developed into the stuff of myth, about which many of the most commonly held beliefs are probably untrue...
	www.queertheory.com /histories/events/queer_history_stonewall.htm (1164 words)

	Stonewall : The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution_0312200250
		David Carter's masterful study, Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution, researched painstakingly over a ten-year period, has finally exhausted the store of information to be had about those climatic nights in 1969.
		The Stonewall riots, beginning on June 27, 1969, in and around the Stonewall Inn in lower Manhattan, are pivotal at least in memory because they galvanized the gay liberation movement, which in the last generation has profoundly altered social attitudes toward gays and lesbians.
		Carter's narrative, particularly of the riots, is not at all triumphalistic, nor is it weighted unfairly against the police and city authorities (who, even on the most neutral account, do not come off well).
	www.priceviewer.com /bookdetail/_0312200250.jsp (1035 words)

	Stonewall 1969
		Deputy Inspector Seymour Pine and his eight detectives from the NYCPD (Public Morals Section) had no reason to believe that tonight's raid on the gay Stonewall Inn was going to be any different from other raids in Greenwich Village that had led to the closing of two bars.
		As reason for raiding the police claimed that the Stonewall was selling liquor without a licence but the patrons of the Stonewall and other bars in the Village thought differently.
		The raid on the Stonewall was brief and businesslike.
	www.angelfire.com /ma2/HomeOfDavidBKing/Stonewall/Stonewall.html (772 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution - David Carter - Hardcover
		But for Carter, the most audacious, energetic and enterprising of riot participants were the drag queens, homeless queer youths and other gender transgressors whose position on the farthest margins of society enabled their radical response to oppression.
		The author depicts the Stonewall riots as a unique convergence of time, place, and circumstance and performs some gentle revisionism on the received version of events, emphasizing the contributions of lesbians and street youth while downplaying, but not discounting, the role of drag queens.
		Certainly the riot was a product of the charged political and social scene of the late '60s, but it's also significant that the raid took place on a summer Friday, late enough at night so that lots of the many customers had downed a good few drinks by the time the cops arrived.
	btobsearch.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?r=1&btob=Y&isbn=0312200250&endeca=1&itm=10 (851 words)

	USM Libraries: News & Events: David Carter Lecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		On the 35th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, David Carter uncovers the truth behind the times, the places and the riots themselves.
		He began work on Stonewall in the spring of 1994, as celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots began.
		In addition to these revelations, STONEWALL offers a clear and detailed look at what life was like, politically and legally, for gay men in New York in the 1960s, including the social life in gay bars, most notable of which is the Stonewall Inn.
	library.usm.maine.edu /newsandevents/carter.html (812 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> Stonewall Riots
		Gay and lesbian activism certainly existed prior to this time, but the confrontations between police and demonstrators at the Stonewall Inn in New York City catalyzed the movement and inspired gay men and lesbians to move their cause to entirely new heights utilizing entirely new tactics.
		Although mafia-run, the Stonewall, like other predominantly gay bars in the city, got raided by the police periodically.
		But for some reason, the crowd that had gathered outside the Stonewall, a crowd that had become campy and festive and had cheered each time a patron emerged from the bar, soon changed its mood.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/stonewall_riots.html (829 words)

	Washington Blade Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Carter places the reader outside the bar, rioting with the rest of the crowd, as well as inside, hunkered down with the police and a reporter who were barricaded there fearing for their lives.
		Carter also explains how the police raided the Stonewall that night not to harass gays, as the myth goes, but to protect closeted gays working on Wall Street who were being flmailed by the manager of the Stonewall.
		The police, by no means, come off as good guys in “Stonewall.” But Carter does fill in the shades of gray that have often been missing from previous versions of what happened on the night gay people turned the corner in their struggle for equal rights.
	www.washblade.com /print.cfm?content_id=3225 (622 words)

	Stonewall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		STONEWALL follows the lives of a half-dozen gay New Yorkers in the weeks leading up to the Stonewall riots while examining police harassment, Mafia control of gay bars, and the general oppression and homophobia faced by gay men and women in the days before the Stonewall Riots launched the Gay Rights Movement in earnest.
		STONEWALL was directed by Nigel Finch, who recreated not only the Stonewall Inn but the Sheridan Square of the late 1960's.
		STONEWALL, the album and the film, is a celebration of the fight for individual liberty and dignity beating at the core of the Gay Rights Movement.
	www.sonymusic.com /artists/Stonewall/Stonewall.html (575 words)

	Mission Statement
		The Stonewall Riots were the first time that gays (specifically, gay men and women, drag queens, and street people) fought back physically against police harassment and entrapment.
		The Stonewall Riots (named after the Stonewall Inn, the Greenwich Village gay bar outside of which they took place) occurred on June 27, 28, and 29, 1969.
		The riots were three nights of violent street protests and arrests involving over 300 gay people who finally grew tired of all the verbal slurs, unfounded arrests and beatings the police had subjected them to.
	www.pridesouthflorida.org /mission.htm (951 words)

	The Stonewall Riots, a turning point in gay history
		The myth that the Stonewall riots gave birth to the gay movement is an insult and a discredit to all the men and women who fought for our rights at a time when it was not fashionable - and was even dangerous - to do so.
		Stonewall was actually a culmination, a culmination of more than 100 years of organized gay rights activity in the western world.
		A detailed historical account of the 1969 riots at the Stonewall Inn in New York City in June, 1969, which marked the beginning of Gay Liberation and Gay Pride.
	www.gay-astrology.com /stonwall.shtml (4437 words)

	Gotham Gazette -- Favorite Books About New York
		The Stonewall Riots are the watershed event in gay history for they changed the course of the movement for gay civil and human rights by making its success possible.
		And that the police raided the Stonewall because of a flmail operation that was being done using a prostitution ring, run by Ed Murphy, manager of the Stonewall Inn.
		I am struck that the Stonewall Riots inspired the introduction of the first civil rights bill for gay men and lesbians, but that the legislation was not adopted until 1986.
	www.gothamgazette.com /books/book_chat/transcripts/stonewall.shtml (2529 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: Coming Out Into the Light
		While accepting that the riots were instrumental in assembling strong gay and lesbian movements, the writers argue that as a result of the emphasis placed on the riots, history has been forgotten and the important movers of the pre-Stonewall era repeatedly overlooked.
		Broken up into several sections, the book continues the discussion of the Stonewall riots with a quick overview of the prohibitions against homosexuality, including punishments and laws associated with such legal and religious condemnation, as well as an investigation into the origins of the term "homosexual" itself.
		While the Stonewall riots are clearly seen asholding immense symbolic significance, the writersargue that this significance appears in partbecause the riots are seen as a creation myth anda rallying point of the queer fight for civilrights.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=217246 (888 words)

	Stonewall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stonewall riots, in 1969, a turning point for the modern gay rights movement
		Stonewall Inn, in New York City, the site of the riots
		Stonewall Jackson (1824–1863), Confederate lieutenant-general Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stonewall (141 words)

	The Center :: The Stonewall Riots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Some even accredit the riots to the passing of actress Judy Garland who was laid to rest the day before the riots.
		Their goal was not only to end the police raids that had started the riots but also to get job protection for gay employees, and repeal sodomy laws.
		Before the riots it was estimated that only a few dozen on these organizations had existed.
	www.lgcsc.org /stonewall.html (471 words)

	Reclaiming Stonewall
		Stonewall was a rebellion of the oppressed taking to the streets and fighting back.
		The coalition was made up of people who were disgusted with the single-issue, assimilationist direction the lesbian and gay movement has taken, and outraged by a large segment of the community's willingness to dance on a US warship used to bomb Vietnam during the 1960s.
		The "Stonewall was a Riot" action took place 10 pm Saturday, June 25, in Sheridan Square.
	www.spunk.org /library/pubs/lr/sp001714/stonewal.html (810 words)

	Southern Voice Online
		He places the reader outside the bar rioting with the rest of the crowd and inside hunkered down with the police and a reporter who were barricaded inside fearing for their lives.
		Most of the accounts of the riots focus on that first night when the Stonewall was raided by police and a large crowd waited outside.
		He also explains that police raided Stonewall that night not to harass gays, as the myth goes, but to protect closeted gays working on Wall Street who were being flmailed by the bar’s manager.
	www.sovo.com /2004/6-25/arts/books/index.cfm (670 words)

	The Stonewall Riots - 1969
		The Stonewall Riots were a turning point in the struggle for homosexual equality.
		The word 'Stonewall' has entered the vocabulary of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgendered people everywhere as a potent emblem of the gay community making a stand against oppression and demanding full equality in every area of life.
		And a prominent gay rights group in Britain passes under the name Stonewall, although its strategy of backroom lobbying and deals with the New Labour government is far removed from the heroic spirit of resistance shown on Christopher Street in June 1969.
	www.socialistalternative.com /literature/stonewall.html (3223 words)

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