The+Stonewall+Uprising

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 * For more on the history of the 1970s, see United States History II.28**

[|Stonewall Riots: The Beginning of the LGBT Movement] from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

 * In 1969 at the Stonewall bar in NYC, tensions between police and LGBTQ patrons reached a boiling point. Gay people were tired of being judged, ridiculed, and imprisoned (at the time, it was illegal to be gay), and they rose up against police brutality, igniting the gay rights movement.
 * **June 28, 1969: Turning Point in Gay Rights History, //The New York Times// (June 10, 2010)**



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Stonewall Riots 40th Anniversary

Stonewall Uprising from PBS American Experience

Click here to see a timeline of the struggle for equal rights

Click [|here] for more history on the LGBTQIA movement from PBS



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[|Stonewall Riots 40th Anniversary: A Look Back at the Uprising That Launched the Modern Gay Rights Movement], Democracy Now (June 26, 2009) has a video and transcript of memories from people who were there.

[|Stonewall National Historic Landmark Nomination], National Park Service, 1999

[|Ladies in the Streets: Before Stonewall, Transgender Uprising Changed Lives], from CodeSwitch, NPR

See also, [|Stonewall, the Mafia, History and Teaching]


 * Lesson Plans **

[|Stonewall: The Riot That Started a Revolution]

[|Discussion Guide: Stonewall Uprising,] an American Experience Documentary