Closeup on the window and sign of The Stonewall Inn. Gay bar & National Historic Landmark, site of the 1969 riots that launched the gay rights movement. Many people living an out and proud queer life ...

I stood outside the Christopher Street subway entrance in New York City last week and noted my surroundings: a Starbucks, a Chase Bank and a set of bars. A triangular strip of fenced grass lined with ...

This year marks the 55th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, which galvanized the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. In commemoration, queer historian Eric Marcus is re-releasing the fifth season of ...

Timing makes history. If the police raid on the Stonewall Inn had happened earlier, it probably would have been instantly forgotten, like so many other attacks on surreptitious gay meeting places. The ...

The National Park Service has removed all references to transgender people from the Stonewall National Monument website. The monument is the first U.S. landmark dedicated to LGBTQ rights and history.

After the words “transgender” and “queer” were removed from the National Park Service’s website for the Stonewall National Monument, a landmark of the LGBTQ pride movement in New York City, protesters ...

On June 28, 1969, rebellious queer bar patrons fought back against a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City’s West Village. The uprising wasn’t the first step in the movement ...

On a special episode (first released on June 26, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Stonewall veterans helped ignite a global movement for LGBTQ+ rights. Now, over 50 years later, they’re battling a new ...

“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 ...