Stonewall Riots
The Stonewall Riots Left image retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/photo-gallery/stonewall/ Right image retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stonewall_riots.jpg Left: A group of youth posed during a lull in the second night of rioting. Right: Police forced people outside the Stonewall Inn.
1961 article linking defections to the Soviet Union to homosexuality The Lavender Scare Image retrieved from http://www.edb.utexas.edu/faculty/salinas/students/student_sites/Fall2008/6/ 1961 article linking defections to the Soviet Union to homosexuality
Early Organizations Left image retrieved from http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-b65d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 Right image retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ernestine_Eckstein_on_the_cover_of_%27The_Ladder%27.jpg Mattachine Society & Daughters of Bilitis protest, 1965 The Ladder, the publication of the Daughters of Bilitis
Stonewall’s Legacy Image retrieved from http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/gay-pride-movement-new-york-city-gallery-1.1100781?pmSlide=1.1100763 Gay Liberation march June 1970. Left poster reads “Transsexuals Unite.” Center poster reads “Gays Unite.”
Central Historical Question What caused the Stonewall Riots?