Stonewall LGBTQ+ London Dry Gin 70cl

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I certainly don't see gay and lesbian history starting with Stonewall ... and I don't see resistance starting with Stonewall. What I do see is a historical coming together of forces, and the sixties changed how human beings endured things in this society and what they refused to endure ... Certainly, something special happened on that night in 1969 and we've made it more special in our need to have what I call a point of origin ... it's more complex than saying that it all started with Stonewall. [192]

a b Fosburgh, Lacey (June 29, 1970). "Thousands of Homosexuals Hold A Protest Rally in Central Park". The New York Times, p. 1.

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Cain, Paul (2007). Leading the Parade: Conversations with America's Most Influential Lesbians and Gay Men. Scarecrow Press, Inc. ISBN 978-0-8108-5913-5.

While the community has always included all LGBT people, the one-word unifying term in the 1950s through the early 1980s was gay (see Gay liberation). Later ('70s/80s) this was expanded by many groups to lesbian and gay, then by the '90s and '00s to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT). Also by the late eighties and early nineties, queer began to be reclaimed as a one-word alternative to the ever-lengthening string of initials, especially when used by radical political groups. [3] Learn about the Stonewall uprising, the riots outside New York's Stonewall Inn that sparked a new era of LGBTQ activism. (more) See all videos for this article At 1:20 a.m. on Saturday, June 28, 1969, four plainclothes policemen in dark suits, two patrol officers in uniform, Detective Charles Smythe, and Deputy Inspector Seymour Pine arrived at the Stonewall Inn's double doors and announced "Police! We're taking the place!" [72] The music was turned off and the main lights were turned on. Approximately 205 people were in the bar that night. Patrons who had never experienced a police raid were confused. A few who realized what was happening began to run for doors and windows in the bathrooms, but police barred the doors. Michael Fader remembered,

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Nightclub Destroyed". Miami Herald. March 3, 1974. p.2-B . Retrieved October 30, 2022– via newspapers.com. a b c "Why Did the Mafia Own the Bar? | American Experience | PBS". www.pbs.org . Retrieved November 21, 2019.