Tag: who was at Stonewall
The story of Stonewall has been bleached. I know because I was there.
The theme for Pride month this year is “Looking back, Loving forward”. This week leads up to the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots that took place from June 27 to 29, 1969, in the Greenwich Village of New York City. The event is well-known because it galvanized LGBTQ activist movements here and abroad.
When I look back at the first night of the Stonewall Inn riots, I could never have imagined its future importance. I couldn’t have imagined the whitewashing of...
