Stonewall Riots In The Stonewall

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In the documentary, Before Stonewall, there is a lot of information of the development of the experiences of the LGBTQ community in the United States during the 20th century leading up to the Stonewall riots in 1969. The United States has come a long way in terms of the LGBTQ community since the beginning of the 20th century and the beginning of the gay rights movement. In the early 1900s, being gay was considered illegal and many were arrested and taken to trials. Many people were also being treated by psychologists and doctors to be “cured” of this
“disease.” Although, society was beginning to become aware of the homosexual subculture especially when the first American defense of homosexuality was published by Edward
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Also, the president of the Mattachine Society, Dick Leitsch, had anti-gay accommodations rules put in for the New York State Liquor Authority so homosexual people could not purchase alcohol. Then within the 1960s the fire and police departments refused to remove questions about homosexuality from their hiring practices while the SLA stopped shutting down legally licensed gay bars and therefore the Stonewall Inn managed to serve alcohol, but were unlicensed. Then the Stonewall Riots came to be violent conflicts between the homosexuals and transsexuals against the police when the police came and raided the bar due to them operating without a license. This then became the turning point for the gay rights movement. A year later Craig Rodwell dedicated a march for the riots where 5,000 people participated and put Stonewall has a historical turning point and created the start of pride marches. Finally society was becoming more accepting of homosexuals, but it soon ended again in the late 1970s when new religious views pushed for a new set conservatism and get rid of liberalism, which also led into the 1980s. The 1980s was also the period when the HIV epidemic became linked to gay men, which then created new anti-gay movements from the

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