#LGBTQ in the 50s/60s faced an #antigay legal system. Police raids on #gay bars were routine but officers quickly lost control of the situation at the #StonewallInn. Enter #StorméDeLarverie, a #butch #lesbian whose scuffle with police was the spark that ignited the #stonewallriots spurring the crowd to action. She was born in New Orleans, to a #Black mother and a #White father. Shes remembered as a gay #civilrightsicon /entertainer. She was the "guardian of #lesbians in the Village." She is known as "the Rosa Parks of the gay community." The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the #LGBT community against a police raid that began in the early morning of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York. They’re considered the most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in America. Tensions between police and gay residents of Greenwich erupted into more protests the next evening & several nights later. Within weeks, Village residents quickly organized into activist groups to concentrate efforts on establishing places for gays and lesbians to be open about their sexual orientation without fear of being arrested. On June 28, 1970, the first #gaypride marches took place in NY, LA, San Francisco & Chicago commemorating the anniversary of the riots. Today, LGBT #pride events are held annually throughout the world the end of June to mark the Stonewall riots. And we can’t forget #MarshaPJohnson who was a gay liberation activist and #dragqueen. Johnson was one of the prominent figures in the Stonewall uprising. Johnson has been named “one of the individuals known to have been in the vanguard" of the pushback against the police at the uprising. Along with Johnson and Delarverie, #SylviaRivera, #ThomasLaniganSchmidt & #CraigRodwell are known as notable participants of the riots. 🏳️🌈🌈☮️ #PrideMonth #MixedLGBT #stonewall51 #blacktranslivesmatter (at Stonewall Inn) https://www.instagram.com/p/CB_ZSyklbXq/?igshid=6p5rz9t57fip
