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April 4, 2017 - The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals rules that the Civil Rights Act prohibits workplace discrimination against LGBTQ employees, after Kimberly Hively sues Ivy Tech Community College for ...
Chicago, Seattle, Minneapolis, San Francisco and Toronto, Canada are among the other major North American cities hosting ...
In the early morning hours of June 28, 1969 police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City. That night the street erupted into violent protests ...
They move in the direction of racial equality as it becomes clear that events in the world, such as, for example, the various race riots in 1917 in St. Louis, the Chicago Massacre in 1919, there's ...
A good portion of American Experience episodes are accessible via the PBS app, PBS Passport and other streaming sites. But Hunt sometimes had to dig through the trenches of internet archives. He even ...
“Secondly, that they put their phones down and really experience it.” The center will feature an art exhibition largely curated by Mark Segal, an LGBTQ activist who took part in the 1969 uprising.
The Stonewall Visitor Center will be located at the same site of the June 1969 uprising that is largely credited as a turning point in the modern gay rights movement.
For the first time ever, patrons refused to be led into paddy wagons, setting off a violent three-day uprising that launched the gay rights movement. Based on David Carter's "Stonewall: The Riots that ...
When police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City on June 28, 1969, the street erupted into violent protests that lasted for the next six ...
The Stonewall Inn, site of the 1969 riots on Christopher Street. In 2016, President Obama designated the area around the iconic bar as the country’s first national monument to LGBTQ rights.
The community's history is "not just Stonewall. It's American history." For Michael Venturiello, it all started at Stonewall. He was a queer 20-something from upstate when he took the train to New ...
MANILA, Philippines—In the early hours of June 28, 1969—during a period when homosexuality was clinically classified as a mental disorder—police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club in ...