Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Operation Soap, Toronto Police Service, Heteronormativity
17 Apr 2017
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New york had laws prohibiting homo in public. Normally places where gays gathered of were shut down. Stonewall inn took a stand against the police and riots grew and broke out. Police reinforcements beat the crowd and the next crowd got bigger until riot police came. The effect of this was left to formation of advocacy groups and a gay newspaper. On the 1st anniversary of the riot was the first gay pride parades. Pride parades have root in activism against police violence. These parades inspired gays to organize in the name of gay rights and spread to every city in the. The original movement included transgender people but divisions developed later. The stonewall legacy is often white-washed while there as interesting context of racial and gay minorities of the time. There was excessive force, verbal and physical abuse. Used name and shame: people would collect information and publish in newspaper your name and that you were found here.
