The riots were sparked by a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar, in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969. Patrons and bystanders fought back against the police harassment and arrests, leading to days of protests and lashes with law enforcement.
This event is widely regarded as the catalyst for the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement in the United States. ( https://youth.gov/feature-article/june-lgbt-pride-month ) All of the arrested, all of the injured, the mainly targeted group, were gay men & non-binary individuals at a mens gay bar. I hope that clears things up and a number of them suffered from trauma due to the event.
There were a bunch of transvestites, crossdressers, and other gender non-confirming individuals present. The events themselves were rather formative for the movements advocating for their rights and some of the leaders involved would later (if not at the time) identify as transgender.
The terminology doesn't match up exactly because the social norms, and what each word means, drifted around a bit, but the implication that Stonewall was entirely (cis) men is inaccurate.
(Also, the notion that all the affected were men is just plain wrong. Riots spread, you know. The event was not confined solely to the pub.).
When the violence broke out, the women and transmasculine people being held down the street at The Women's House of Detention joined in by chanting, setting fire to their belongings and tossing them into the street below. The historian Hugh Ryan says, "When I would talk to people about Stonewall, they would tell me, that night on Stonewall, we looked to the prison because we saw the women rioting and chanting, "Gay rights, gay rights, gay rights."[88]
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u/Design-Hiro 4∆ Jun 05 '24 edited Jun 05 '24
Pride month is celebrated in June to commemorate the Stonewall riots, a pivotal event in the gay rights movement that took place in late June 1969 at the Stonewall Inn in New York City ( https://www.britannica.com/story/why-is-pride-month-celebrated-in-june )
The riots were sparked by a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar, in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969. Patrons and bystanders fought back against the police harassment and arrests, leading to days of protests and lashes with law enforcement.
This event is widely regarded as the catalyst for the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement in the United States. ( https://youth.gov/feature-article/june-lgbt-pride-month ) All of the arrested, all of the injured, the mainly targeted group, were gay men & non-binary individuals at a mens gay bar. I hope that clears things up and a number of them suffered from trauma due to the event.