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Stonewall at 50

  • Carlotta in a 1973 episode of Number 96.

    With Number 96, Australia brought queer people to TV decades before anyone else

    Once upon a time Australian TV led the world in shattering LGBT taboos – with the world’s first regular gay character in 1972, followed by a trans character and gay kiss
  • Participants take part in2019 World Pride NYC and Stonewall 50th LGBTQ Pride Parade in New York<br>Participants take part in the 2019 World Pride NYC and Stonewall 50th LGBTQ Pride Parade in New York, U.S., June 30, 2019 REUTERS/Jeenah Moon

    New York leads way as Pride marches mark 50 years since Stonewall – as it happened

    Rolling coverage of LGBTQ celebrations across the US as World Pride comes to a crescendo
  • Participants take part in2019 World Pride NYC and Stonewall 50th LGBTQ Pride Parade in New York<br>Participants take part in the 2019 World Pride NYC and Stonewall 50th LGBTQ Pride Parade in New York, U.S., June 30, 2019 REUTERS/Jeenah Moon

    New York leads Pride parades as LGBTQ activists debate state of movement

    Two marches in Manhattan and many more around US as world marks 50th anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion
  • The pure joy of the dances of the Gay Activists Alliance at the Fire House in SoHo

    Love and Resistance review: priceless pictures of LGBTQ pioneers

    Fifty years after Stonewall, photographs Kay Tobin Lahusen and Diana Davies pin the zeitgeist to the page
  • Imara Jones and her cousins talk during the filming of her documentary series Translash

    Trans, black and loved: what happened when I returned to the deep south after transitioning

    Imara Jones left Georgia to discover herself as a trans woman. Two decades later, she returns to meet her family as her whole self
  • A contestant performs at Round-Up Saloon, Texas

    'Living joyously is a radical act': why America's gay bars still matter

  • 'This is where we live our truth': visiting America's gay bars – video

  • A protester faces up to police officers at the Stonewall Inn in New York in June 1969

    What has changed since the Stonewall rebellion?

    The Stonewall rebellion in 1969 started a revolution in LGBT rights in the US. Ed Pilkington revisits the story with those who were there. Plus: Lucy Siegle on the rise of fast fashion
  • ‘People were very angry for so long. How long can you live in the closet?’

    'I have to go off': activist Sylvia Rivera on choosing to riot at Stonewall

    In a 1989 interview, the New York City LGBTQ activist and icon describes the tumult of the uprising in Greenwich Village
  • Illustration for Review cover story by Yuval Noah Harari about Stonewall at 50 and surveillance

    50 years after Stonewall: Yuval Noah Harari on the new threats to LGBT rights

    With rising homophobia and rapid developments in surveillance, a new era of persecution is all too possible. It is time to unite and act
  • Donna

    Compton's Cafeteria riot: a historic act of trans resistance, three years before Stonewall

    Organizers are fighting to cement the legacy of 1966 and have designated the world’s first-ever ‘trans cultural district’ in San Francisco’s Tenderloin
  • A man with an umbrella walks down Fifth Avenue during the annual New York Gay Pride Parade on June 25, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Maite H. Mateo/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images)

    WorldPride: New York's best LGBTQ art, heritage and party venues

    As New York gets ready to celebrate WorldPride on 26 June and 50 years since the Stonewall uprising, locals pick cultural spaces, tours and nightlife that embody the city’s queer spirit
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    The new American family: trans, gender queer, nonbinary, two-spirit

    As part of our series, Stonewall at 50, we hear from six people who found love and happiness – after being told they didn’t belong
  • 'We gotta keep fighting and yelling': New York drag queens on the legacy of Stonewall – video

    On 28 June 1969, a police raid at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, sparked a rebellion against discrimination – and proved the catalyst for the modern LGBTQ rights movement. Performers Lady Bunny, Peppermint and Sasha Velour discuss what the Stonewall uprising means to them – and what's next in the fight for equality.

  • A group of young people–including Tommy Lanigan -Schmidt on the far right–celebrate outside the boarded-up Stonewall Inn (53 Christopher Street) after riots over the weekend of June 27, 1969.

    The riot that changed America's gay rights movement forever

  • Today it is common to complain that Pride parades are corporate, gay marriage is heteronormative, and gay culture has become commercial. But we should be careful not to romanticize the pre-Stonewall era.

    White men were first to benefit from gay liberation – but it can't end there

    Edmund White
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