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The Stonewall Riots Movement
The purpose of this paper is to examine how the stonewall riots event of the LGBT community help gain their civil rights movements.
During the 1940s through 1960s, many LGBT struggle through their lifestyle, they were eventually seen as threat to the American security,Homosexuality was not condoned in the military, that homosexual soldiers were dishonorably discharged.However small group began stepping forward by expanding the cultural knowledge of the gay world, exposing people who may have never known of its existence.

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