Hailed as the start of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, the Stonewall Riots took place at New York City’s Stonewall Inn fifty-six years ago this month. On June 28, 1969, police attempted to arrest ...

The Stonewall riots of 1969, which gave rise to the modern LGBTQ rights movement, rest on one unequivocal historical fact: On the night of June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn ...

Was there a first brick? Does it matter? Historians of the Stonewall Riots talk about what we know about the historic LGBT protests in late June 1969—and their continued mystery. Former Commerce ...

At TIME’s request, the Oxford English Dictionary did an analysis of the language that is most commonly used in online news sources to describe Stonewall. Today, riots is most popular ...

FRANKLIN, Tenn. I was perhaps the unlikeliest person in the world to cover the Stonewall riots for The Village Voice. It was June 27, 1969. I had graduated from West Point only three weeks earlier ...

The media coverage of what is now called the Stonewall riots reflected the era’s homophobic attitudes. In the late 1960s, it was still illegal in most states to be gay, not a single law ...

Fifty years after the Stonewall riots, Cameron Laux looks at their cultural legacy. How have writers, artists and film-makers channelled the spirit of the protest in the decades since? “Some ...

Father’s Day weekend is also the celebration of Stonewall Pride, an event that commemorates the 1969 Stonewall Riots and the ...

The Stonewall riots marked the beginning of the modern gay rights movement, the point at which the LGBTQ+ community stood up ...

Carline Jean/ Sentinel) People attending the 25th Annual Stonewall parade and street festival in Wilton Manors on Saturday, June 14, 2025. The festival is held in honor of the Stonewall Riots of June ...

CORNING, NY (WENY) -- Downtown Corning was filled with people celebrating the 6th annual Pride Festival on Saturday.

Today marks the 54th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, a defining moment in LGBTQ+ history that continues to inspire and shape the fight for equal rights. The precursor to the contemporary Pride ...