While other gay rights groups, such as ONE, Inc., were open to members of different genders, they often tended to be dominated by gay men. By 1955, however, there would be at least one formal organization dedicated solely to the rights of lesbian women: the Daughters of Bilitis...
Stonewall Timeline
The riot at the Stonewall Inn lasted for two nights, with many of the details of regarding the interactions between police and protesters coming from eyewitness accounts, including a reporter from the Village Voice who was trapped inside the bar...
The Black Cat Riots and Protests in Los Angeles
Many people assume the gay liberation movement started at the Stonewall Inn. But two years before, activists from the Los Angeles LGBTQ community organized the earliest known organized gay rights protest against police abuse in the country...
1979 March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Rights
Community building and equality—those were the driving forces behind the first March on Washington for Gay & Lesbian Rights in 1979. The idea of the march and strategies were borrowed from the African American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s...
Police Harassment of LGBTQ Communities
The police raid of the Stonewall Inn was not a historically unique event. Harassment by police of LGBTQ establishments and hang-outs can be found in the decades before Stonewall all over the country...