And while we like to think of the Stonewall Inn as the only, the best, the most idyllic, or even the most important gay bar in New York at this time, we are not certain if we had liked it to have a drink there since eyewitnesses are commonly describing the Stonewall Inn from 1969 as a dirty, mafia-run bar. The Stonewall Inn located on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village, New York City, was under the scrutiny of the NYPD with regular raids which went along with the inclusion of the personal details and insults of the queer guests. Let’s look at some of the facts we gathered around the historical events around Stonewall Inn that are considered to be the birthplace of the Gay Liberation Front that was responsible for the first pride parades held in commemoration of the Stonewall Riots the year after, in 1970 in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City.Įin Beitrag geteilt von The Stonewall Inn (Official) Raids at Gay Venues in NYC And yet, it is essential to understand the importance of the events that took place in June 1969 on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village, New York City. It is important to know that there was an active LGBTQ+ rights movement before the Stonewall Uprising. Reasons enough why Mafia-owned bars like the Stonewall Inn still existed in 1969.
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Not to mention the fact that getting a liquor license for an openly gay bar was tough. In the early 1960 in New York State, drinking while being gay was considered illegal. There is also the fascinating story of the “Sip-In” at Julius’ Bar we want to mention. Shortly after in 1955, the American organization Daughters of Bilitis became one of the first lesbian organizations in the United States. Just a couple of years later in 1953, the Mattachine Society was (re)formed which managed to spread across the country. Already in 1951 in Los Angeles, years before the Stonewall Riots, the American organization Mattachine Foundation was founded by a group of cis-males with the aim to protect and improve the rights of gay men. Let’s jump back to the USA to the middle of the 20th century. It was in 1897 when Magnus Hirschfeld founded his organization in Berlin together with Max Spohr, Franz Josef von Bülow, and Eduard Oberg, the so-called Scientific-Humanitarian Committee the world’s first gay rights organization. “made history by issuing a resolution stating that homosexuality was not a mental illness or sickness.” īut we still have to go back in time to the late 19th century. That was about to change in 1973 when the American Psychiatric Association We have to be aware that at this time in history, homosexuality was listed as an illness worldwide. At this time, many gay men preferred the term homophile as it was shifting the focus away from their sexuality trying to avoid legal issues and political persecution. But is this actually true? According to historians about the LGBTQ+ community, lesbian, gay, trans, and queer people started to change the awareness of our community already many years before that with the so-called “ homophile movement” – a term for the pre-Stonewall gay rights movement. The last days of June in 1969 and the riots at the Stonewall Inn mark for many of the LGBTQ+ community the beginning of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement and gay history.
On the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Inn uprising in New York City in 2019, which is broadly recognized as the beginning of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, this article on Couple of Men summarizes the CSD, Gay, and LGBTQ+ Pride History raising the questions: Are the Stonewall Riots really the beginning of the LGBTQ+ rights movement? Did a black trans woman really start the praising of the LGBTQ+ community? And who did actually really throw the first brick (and was it really a brick)? Learn how it all started, before and after New York City, how it all continued with the fight of the LGBTQ+ Activists and how June became Pride Month in the USA – Happy Gay Pride Everyone! It all began with the Homophile Movement 9 Continue the LGBTQ+ legacy of the Stonewall Inn