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Stonewall
June 28, 2021
Evan Wolfson
From Stonewall to Today: How Activism Changed the World
It’s the fifty-second anniversary of the event that started the LGBTQ movement. But it’s what happened after the uprising that really matters.
June 21, 2021
Melissa Gira Grant
Who Are the Police Protecting and Serving at Pride?
Demands to welcome cops at Pride amount to a collective hallucination, as if the policing of gender and sexuality by the state was a thing of the past.
June 26, 2019
Gabriel Arana
Fifty Years After Stonewall, Many States Still Lack LGBTQ Protections
Pride is a national celebration of how far the fight for queer rights has come, but in most of the U.S., there is still a long way to go.
June 24, 2019
Scott W. Stern
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Charles O’Malley
Remembering Stonewall as It Actually Was—and a Movement as It Really Is
With monuments to a pair of trans activists instrumental in the 1969 uprising, New York City takes an important step toward inclusion.
May 27, 2019
Magazine
Alexander Chee
Finding Stonewall
For too long, I knew only part of the story of the riots of 1969.
June 24, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
President Obama just created the first national monument honoring the LGBT community.
May 20, 2013
Evan Wolfson
Gay Marriage Hasn't Won Yet
Shunning foes of marriage equality isn't bullying. It's advocacy.
April 2, 2013
Michael Kazin
Before Stonewall
In celebrating the most famous gay-rights skirmish, we slight the battles that came before
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