{"id":6713,"date":"2011-06-28T10:23:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T15:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=6713"},"modified":"2011-12-31T00:42:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T05:42:59","slug":"police-raids-and-the-stonewall-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/06\/28\/police-raids-and-the-stonewall-riots\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Raids and the Stonewall Riots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Originally posted Feb. 11, 2009. \u00a0Reposted in honor of the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I found a collection of images relating to gay and lesbian studies put together at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/cu\/lweb\/eresources\/exhibitions\/sw25\/index.html\">Columbia University<\/a>, including this scan of a NYT article on what came to be known as the Stonewall Riots, when crowds reacted violently when police attempted to raid a club on June 28, 1969 (skirmishes continued for several days):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6715 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/02\/1times1a.gif\" alt=\"1times1a\" width=\"280\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/02\/1times1a.gif 280w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/02\/1times1a-225x300.gif 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Graffiti from the Stonewall Riots (published in the <em>Village Voice<\/em>):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6716 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/02\/voice2.gif\" alt=\"voice2\" width=\"320\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/02\/voice2.gif 320w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/02\/voice2-300x188.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are also some other good photos unrelated to Stonewall such as this one, from 1962, of entertainers at a drag club being hauled off by police after a raid:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6714 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/02\/1dub3.gif\" alt=\"1dub3\" width=\"404\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/02\/1dub3.gif 404w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/02\/1dub3-268x300.gif 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The database might be useful if you&#8217;re interested in what is generally seen as the start of the gay rights movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted Feb. 11, 2009. \u00a0Reposted in honor of the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. I found a collection of images relating to gay and lesbian studies put together at Columbia University, including this scan of a NYT article on what came to be known as the Stonewall Riots, when crowds reacted violently when police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12508,403,253,283,54],"class_list":["post-6713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-activismsocial-movements","tag-deviance","tag-history","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-sexual-orientation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6713"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43269,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713\/revisions\/43269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}