Stonewall inn

Stonewall was a rebellion and a release of fear. But it was also the celebration of personhood by queer Americans standing proud and unashamed

Decades after the Stonewall Inn Uprising, the historic New York tavern proves its staying power as one of the world’s foremost patrons of queer community.

It was an unlikely partnership, but between NYC’s LGBTQ+ community in the 1960s forced to live on the outskirts of society, and the Mafia

This Sunday, the cities of San Francisco, New York, Paris, Seattle, London, and Minneapolis, all ring in LGBT Pride. Around the world, Pride takes the shape of parades, events, performances, and exhibitions, commemorating and recognizing the ongoing gay rights movement, and celebrating the diversity within the LGBT community. The reason the last weekend in June

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Stonewall Inn Historic Marker. New York City.

The weekly protests for Black trans liberation continue in the tradition of the 1969 Stonewall Riots.

Michael Bronski, Professor of the Practice in Activism and Media Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University, speaks to Newsweek about the origins of Pride Month and the Stonewall Uprising.

June is unofficially recognized this year as LGBTQ Pride Month, because of an NYC demonstration that took place in 1969.