Stonewall Riot

Cultural  

1. A disturbance that grew out of a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a popular hang-out for gays in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in 1969. Such raids long had been routine, but this one provoked a riot as the crowd fought back. The riot led to the formation of the Gay Liberation Front and to a new level of solidarity among homosexuals.

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Example Sentences

Against a backdrop of resurgent feminism, Black Power, Puerto Rican pride, and the Stonewall Riot, he produced "All in the Family," a sitcom that changed television forever by holding a mirror up to America.

From Salon

In some ways, the spirits of Black Lives Matter and Act Up converge in the figure of Marsha P Johnson, the black trans woman who was at the Stonewall riot in 1969, which sparked the modern movement for gay rights.

From The Guardian

Fouratt moved to his apartment in 1969, the year that the Stonewall riot took place.

From The Guardian

L.A. gay rights pioneer Morris Kight told The Times in 1988 that he and others organized a gay pride parade to commemorate the Stonewall riot in New York, a pivotal moment in the gay rights movement.

From Los Angeles Times

And as incongruous as it sounds, as a newly-minted Second Lieutenant, less than four weeks after I stood on the Plain for my graduation parade at West Point, I stumbled into the Stonewall riot in New York City and ended up writing the cover story about the three-night uprising for the Village Voice.

From Salon