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Stonewall sparked much more than the gay rights movement & you probably had no...
When the Stonewall riots erupted during the steamy pre-dawn hours of June 28, 1969, they quickly transformed what had been a small but longstanding push for queer equality into a mass movement. Multiple organizations were born in the wake of street protests triggered by the police raid of a Mafia-owned gay bar in New York City’s Greenwich Village.
It’s tempting to portray what came next as a march of relentless progress, but that characterization ignores the episodic nature of social...