In the film he expresses how he did not support their protests during the time‚ but then goes on to say that most of the police could have handled the situation better during the time. Even after the riots‚ when Blackstone became an “advocate”‚ for the trans community‚ his “job was to get people to understand how to live their lifestyle along with the rest of the city.” Not once did he call himself an ally‚ and not once did he say he supported the cause
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This statement and many other have been the rally cry of the LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender) community. However‚ when did the fight for equality start. This fight began in 1969 in New York City. The event that started this is known as the Stonewall riot. As the city began to be separated due to LGBT beliefs‚ that summer a local team went on a historic run from losing 100 hundred games two years ago to winning 100 games. The New York Mets helped unify a city that needed something to cheer about
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regardless of sexual preference. For the first time in American History all citizens gay or straight‚ had a legal right to marry the person they loved most in the world. The modern day gay rights movement began in at the Stonewall Inn in New York City on June 28‚ 1969. The Stonewall Inn was a gay night club that was targeted by police and raided in the middle of the night. The police had a legal right to raid the club due to serving liquor without a license; but New York’s gay community felt targeted
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Today there continues to be a strong conflict over the ideas of gender and their roles in society. Gender as a social construct creates order in what it means to be an ideal male or female as well as structures the definitions of what is masculine or feminine. Anyone who deviates from their assigned gender is punished through ridicule and shame. Often times‚ when a woman adopts masculine attributes she receives less mockery because she is striving to join a higher class of species that is believed
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common goal within the movement is to achieve social equality‚ most notably for marriage. In the early hours of June 28‚ 1969‚ a group of gay customers at a popular gay bar in Greenwich Village called the Stonewall Inn‚ who had grown angry at the harassment by police‚ took a stand and a riot broke out. As word spread throughout the city about the demonstration‚ other gay men and women who started throwing objects at the policemen‚ shouting “gay power”‚ soon joined the customers of the inn. Police
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” The Stonewall Riots was the major cause of the establishment of the LGBT movement today. Last June 28‚ 1969 at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village‚ New York‚ a group of gays stood up for themselves out of anger against the policemen who were harassing them. During the time‚ gay ostracism was more evident; they were not allowed in public. The event created inspiration for the other gays in the place so much so that the next day‚ over a thousand gays created a riot outside the Stonewall Inn and
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1969‚ speeches by Martha Shelley and Marty Robinson were followed by a candlelight march to the site of the Stonewall Inn. Five hundred people showed up‚ thought to have included almost the entire ’out-of-the-closet’ population of Lesbians and Gay men in New York‚ as well as their supporters from the political left. The rest as they say is history... STONEWALL: The Movement Before Stonewall‚ there were a number of groups working for homosexual rights‚ ever since the concept had been defined in nineteenth
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important in the fight for LGBT+ rights‚ such as in 1962 when Illinois became the first state to decriminalize “homosexual acts” between two consenting adults. However‚ the most important advances in equality for the LGBT+ community occurred after Stonewall. In 1980 the Democratic party came out and supported rights for the LGBT+ community‚ and has continued to fight for LGBT+ rights to the current day. In June of 2015‚ the Supreme Court ruled five to four to grant same-sex couples the right to marry
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Gay Rights & Gay Marriage: How have the Advancements in Gay Rights paved a way for Gay Marriage? Oscar Rhodes Post University Professor Meghan Tarby PSS211: Sociology of Family The Gays Rights Movement has existed for over 89 years in counting since the development of the Society for Human Rights in Chicago. During the early years of the Gay Rights movement (1924-1973) it was very difficult to identify as a member of the same sex loving community because during this time it was illegal in
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