What Were the Stonewall Riots? How the Events of 1969 Shaped LGBT Movement
LGBTQ movement that revolutionized the lives of future generations.Police had already raided the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street that week, and this second time occurred in the early hours of Saturday morning, when the venue was packed.While the LGBTQ movement cannot be directly traced to the events of that night, it was certainly energized by what happened in the hours and days after the riot.David Richards, Edwin D.
Webb Professor of Law at New York University, describes Stonewall as having "transformed both our culture and our constitutional law."He told Newsweek: "There was a lot going on before Stonewall, but coming at the end of the civil rights movement and its remarkable legal successes [the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965], Stonewall historically marks the remarkable emergence in the U.S.
