"There's no way to have Stonewall become this national fulcrum and spark point without the work that Drew did," says historian Kevin Scharlau. Years before the Stonewall uprising, Drew Shafer started ...

“You have to develop a tough hide to take care of the soft interior,” says Dorothy (Smilie) Hillaire, a Native American activist featured in the newly restored and re-released 1985 documentary film ...

Long before Stonewall, a series of violent demonstrations by LGBTQ+ people against a police raid in 1969, sparked the modern fight for LGBTQ+ rights queer people were creating their own safe havens ...

Fifty years ago, a riot broke out at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village. In 1969 it was common for police officers to rough up a gay bar and ask for payoffs. That's what ...

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - In 1969, the Stonewall Riots in New York ignited the nation’s gay rights movement, proving to be a flashpoint for organization and advocacy against discrimination and prejudice.

In the weeks leading up to the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, every gay bar in New York, and plenty of straight bars, welcome hordes of proud homo revelers, happy to toast to the power that a ...