{"id":26352,"date":"2011-06-28T10:24:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T15:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=26352"},"modified":"2013-11-11T02:42:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T07:42:30","slug":"historic-photos-of-the-stonewall-riot-and-its-aftermath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/06\/28\/historic-photos-of-the-stonewall-riot-and-its-aftermath\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Photos of the Stonewall Riot and Its Aftermath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Stonewall Inn is a bar in Greenwich Village in New York.\u00a0 In the &#8217;60s the bar was frequented by, among others, gay, lesbian, and transgender locals.\u00a0 On June 28, 1969, in response to frequent harassment by police, the patrons rioted.\u00a0 The description on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stonewall_riots\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>, I must admit, is worth the read.\u00a0 Suffice to say that the police were roundly trounced.\u00a0 The riot is often cited as the birth of the LGBT rights movement.<\/p>\n<p>This is purported to be the only photograph of the riot:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/08\/Stonewall_riots.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26363\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/08\/Stonewall_riots.jpg\" width=\"365\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this is a picture of the Inn, three months later, with a sign in the window that reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We homosexuals plead with our people to please help maintain peaceful and quiet conduct on the streets of the Village.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/08\/Stonewall_Inn_1969.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26353\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/08\/Stonewall_Inn_1969.jpg\" width=\"406\" height=\"575\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Images borrowed from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stonewall_riots#Riots\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stonewall Inn is a bar in Greenwich Village in New York.\u00a0 In the &#8217;60s the bar was frequented by, among others, gay, lesbian, and transgender locals.\u00a0 On June 28, 1969, in response to frequent harassment by police, the patrons rioted.\u00a0 The description on Wikipedia, I must admit, is worth the read.\u00a0 Suffice to say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12508,2056,55,2106,253,54],"class_list":["post-26352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-activismsocial-movements","tag-crimelaw","tag-gender","tag-gender-transgenderintersex","tag-history","tag-sexual-orientation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26352"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58816,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26352\/revisions\/58816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}