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No History Without the T
When the National Park Service removed trans people from the webpages of the Stonewall National Monument, it echoed one of the darkest chapters of the queer past.
by
Hugh Ryan
via
Slate
on
February 16, 2025
What Is Stonewall in 2024?
A touristy dive bar, an unfinished liberation movement, and now a visitor center for the National Park Service.
by
Brock Colyar
via
Curbed
on
June 20, 2024
Edmund White on Stonewall, the ‘Decisive Uprising’ of Gay Liberation
At what point does resistance become the only choice?
by
Edmund White
via
Literary Hub
on
April 30, 2019
Deconstructing the Stonewall Myth (Brick by Brick)
Why it's important to know that Marsha P. Johnson did not start the riots at Stonewall.
by
R. E. Fulton
via
Nursing Clio
on
June 26, 2018
Stonewall and Its Impact on the Gay Liberation Movement
A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by
Lucy Santos Green
via
Digital Public Library of America
on
January 1, 2017
partner
Transgender Rights, Won Over Decades, Face New Restrictions
More than 50 years after the Stonewall uprising marked the birth of a movement for LGBTQ+ rights, transgender activists continue to push for inclusion.
via
Retro Report
on
May 30, 2023
Transgender Legal Battles: A Timeline
New laws regarding transgender youth are based on the assumption that the gender binary is natural.
by
Mena Davidson
via
JSTOR Daily
on
May 12, 2022
Vice, Vice, Baby
The history of patrolling sex in public.
by
Max Fox
via
Bookforum
on
September 7, 2021
The Revolution That Wasn’t
Do we give the activist groups of the 1960s more credit than they deserve?
by
Michael Kazin
via
The New Republic
on
July 30, 2021
The History of Pride
How activists fought to create LGBTQ+ pride.
by
Meg Metcalf
via
Library of Congress
on
June 1, 2020
Love One Another or Die
During the AIDS crisis, different contingents of the LGBTQ movement set aside their differences to prioritize mutual care.
by
Amy Hoffman
via
Boston Review
on
April 2, 2020
Writing Gay History
How the story itself came out.
by
Jim Downs
via
Humanities
on
June 27, 2019
Before Stonewall, There Was a Bookstore
Networks of activists transformed Stonewall from an isolated event into a turning point in the struggle for gay power.
by
Jim Downs
via
The Atlantic
on
June 27, 2019
partner
Stonewall's Legacy and Kwame Anthony Appiah's Misuse of History
The New York Times should have done a better job fact-checking Appiah’s essay. Philosophy may be allegorical. History isn’t.
by
Alan J. Singer
via
HNN
on
June 23, 2019
The Stonewall Riots Didn’t Start the Gay Rights Movement
Giving Stonewall too much credit misses the movement’s growing strength in the 1960s, sociologists note.
by
Greggor Mattson
via
JSTOR Daily
on
June 12, 2019
Stonewall: The Making of a Monument
Ever since the 1969 Stonewall Riots, L.G.B.T.Q. communities have gathered there to express their joy, their anger, their pain and their power.
by
Cheryl Furjanic
via
New York Times Op-Docs
on
June 4, 2019
From “Sip-in” to the Hairpin Drop Heard Round the World, Protests Can Work
A small act of protest that resulted in significant change.
by
Nancy Unger
via
Nursing Clio
on
March 23, 2017
The Sissies, Hustlers, and Hair Fairies Whose Defiant Lives Paved the Way for Stonewall
In 1966, the queens had finally had enough with years of discriminatory treatment by the San Francisco police.
by
Hunter Oatman-Stanford
via
Collectors Weekly
on
August 15, 2016
How Greenwich Village Became America’s Bohemia
Greenwich Village’s bohemian and queer culture roots lie in its history of incarcerating women, notably via the Women’s Court and House of Detention.
by
Hugh Ryan
via
The Gotham Center
on
November 20, 2024
The Complicated, Disputed History of the Rainbow Flag
Who created it? What was it meant for? And how did it come to be what it is today?
by
Christina Cauterucci
via
Slate
on
June 19, 2024
Before It Burned Down, This Bathhouse Served as a Haven for New York City's Gay Community
For decades, gay men gathered anonymously at the Everard Baths, seeking sexual liaisons and camaraderie alike.
by
Robert Klara
via
Smithsonian
on
June 26, 2023
How One Mother’s Love for Her Gay Son Started a Revolution
In the sixties and seventies, fighting for the rights of queer people was considered radical activism. To Jeanne Manford, it was just part of being a parent.
by
Kathryn Schulz
via
The New Yorker
on
April 10, 2023
Every New Disease Triggers a Search for Someone to Blame
Focusing on a virus’s origins encourages individualized shame while ignoring the broader societal factors that contribute to a disease’s transmission.
by
Steven Thrasher
via
The Atlantic
on
July 31, 2022
partner
The History Missing From the LGBTQ Story Told During Pride Month
Why reinserting race and class into our understanding of Pride is so important.
by
Beau Lancaster
via
Made By History
on
June 20, 2022
Harvey Milk’s Gay Freedom Day Speech
Five months before his assassination in 1978, Harvey Milk called on the president of the United States to defend the rights of gay and lesbian Americans.
by
Liz Tracey
,
Harvey Milk
via
JSTOR Daily
on
June 13, 2022
The Overlooked LGBTQ+ History of the Harlem Renaissance
Acknowledging the queer culture of the Harlem Renaissance is essential in order to paint a full picture of the period.
by
Olivia B. Waxman
,
Arpita Aneja
via
TIME
on
October 11, 2021
Harry Hay, John Cage, and the Birth of Gay Rights in Los Angeles
Five men sat together on a hillside in the late afternoon, imagining a world in which they did not have to hide.
by
Alex Ross
via
The New Yorker
on
June 25, 2021
Vice Age
Chronicling the policing of gay life in the mid-20th century.
by
Lewis Rice
via
Harvard Law Bulletin
on
June 11, 2021
Queer as Cop: Gay Patrol Units and the White Fantasy of Safety
In the 1970s, gay patrol units in San Francisco and New York City rallied around their whiteness to produce a sense of safety.
by
Hugh Mac Neill
via
NOTCHES
on
February 2, 2021
The Rise and Fall of America's Lesbian Bars
Only 15 nightlife spaces dedicated to queer and gay women remain in the United States
by
Sarah Marloff
via
Smithsonian
on
January 21, 2021
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