I always have to tell people that they should give thanks to the elders who brought us where to we are now.

As a bisexual man born in 2001: I thank everyone who started the fight for our rights! You are Heroes! Also, this year, 2019, my country Austria finally allowed gay Marriage too. :D

No one says that Judy's death started the riot... its along the lines that many fans of her were already upset and mourning her death... so when the raid happened they were already on the edge

What is missing from this documentary and all others that I have seen is that the issue of racism within the gay community is not acknowledged or addressed. I am a 62-year-old black gay man, and as a young man I experienced a great deal of racism once I began to explore my own homosexuality. Coming in contact with other gays for the first time in a predominately white Santa Barbara California where I was attending University, I, naively, thought that this group who had been so oppressed would embrace me as one of them without my race being an issue. However, I was soon to realize, even after leaving Santa Barbara, that within the gay communities of California at least, there existed the same virulent hatred and exclusion that was and is part of the fabric of the rest of the country. I am not referring to who an individual is sexually attracted to, that is their business and I don't personally consider that an example of racism, but more a matter of social conditioning. I am referring to the institutional racism that existed at the time that barred me from entering certain gay establishments by requiring I show more than one I.D. while whites were allowed in after showing just one; as well as, bartenders who would ignore me when I went to the bar, having drinks purposely spilled on me, and a myriad of other things attempted that I will not relate here. There was, and maybe still is to some degree, a great deal of segregation within the gay community, with clubs that were referred to as black clubs or Latino clubs, etc. However, these clubs were not exclusive, one would always see at least a handful of whites within the "black" clubs and they were never to my knowledge treated with derision because of their race. I know things have gotten better, but just as this documentary focuses on the struggles and victories of the homosexual community over the hatred and misunderstanding from the outside, there should also be an acknowledgment of the progress and continuing efforts to break down the hatred and prejudice that lives within.

Out since '68; proud of my brothers and sisters since Stonewall!! 💜🌈💜

In my opinion I believe we have become a bit complacent since we really have to fight for as much as our predecessors did. We have a lot issues we have to solve within the LGBTQ+ community such as our own discrimination towards our fellow people who are fighting for the same struggle. I believe if we can solve our inward issues our outward issues will be precise and there will be nothing held against the community as a whole. Again my opinion and I hope it made sense lol. xoxo

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Interesting to watch exactly the way this happened, sometime there are exaggeration and distort the story. The main reason these people got tired with the discrimination and treatment and thought back. However, its "phenomenal " how the movement as grown over 50 years. The face of LGBTQ is a lot different now.. than previous and was very closeted and this would have had impact in main areas of life Been a pleasure to watch

Judy Garlands funeral was attended by many of the gay people involved in the Stonewall Riots mere hours before the police raided the joint. I knew several people who were there and was told by at least two that her death and funeral were likely a factor, the cops just picked the wrong night to raid the place, those queens had already had enough from the cops, that combined with the grief of losing a famous icon to the gay community pushed them over the edge. This is what I was told by people that were there. I was told this around 1977 in NYC at the Ninth Circle over cocktails.

All I gotta say is not all soldiers who fight for our rights ware a uniform and carry a gun.

In the map of LGBTQIA Rights you accidentally omitted New Zealand.

the fight is far from over, as long as religions and sects expressed their hatred, as long as fascists and dictators have power and trampling on basic human rights... the fight for recognition and equal treatment must continue. I don't need to mention the countries in Asia, Africa, the Eastern Bloc states, the Evangeliban, the Taliban, the Catholiban, the ordotox... they are well known... and human rights must be fought for against them - don't let them get you down

I wish there were more gay bars around and i hope that some day there would be lgbtq lodges around

Stonewall is the reason I have a chance to get married

Marsha P. Johnson was recorded on tape which is available at "Making Gay History" Podcast season 2 episode 1 in which Johnson states not ariving at the Village untill 2 AM when the riot was slowing down and having to ask what was going on. Johnson also stated elsewhere and to Rivera's face that Rivera was not at Stonewall, and not even downtown until going to a Gay Liberation Front meeting a couple weeks later.

Stuff like this makes me proud to be a New Yorker. No other place on Earth managed to influence global cultural shifts quite like NYC.

Yeah but Judy was a major friend of gays and drag queens, something pretty rare at the time, so her death left a hole that fueled the flames of revolution. Of course we shouldn't reduce Stonewall to the correlation but it certainly contributed to the breaking point.

I don't understand why people don't even understand today that gay rights is human rights. We all humans of this planet and we should all love each other with respect and love. That's all we're talking about is love. I am a straight man but I grew up with gay friends and transgender friends. I live now in Idaho which is a bit bizarre just even for me but I still have many friends of all sexual orientations. Not trying to point that outer in any way but what I'm saying is that my mother was a straight woman did not raise me to be hating on someone of a different sexual orientation but I also grew up in the Bay area California San Jose to be exact. And my mom had many friends from all nationalities in all sexual orientations and we celebrated life always and she never ever said it was okay for me to be mean to other people for any reason. I thank her for that because had she been the other way and taught me to hate people then I would never know really good people in my life and I have a lot of really great people in my life awesome people to be exact. And I hear people talk about tolerance and it's like tolerance just accept people for people tolerance is like it's almost like a slap in the face that word you tolerate somebody I mean I think about that and I think I don't tolerate anybody I either like you or I don't like you so it has nothing to do with race or sexual orientation. But I also view life as how would I want to be treated. And my father always told me do onto others as you would upon yourself and so I just try to live that way. Sorry I just kept putting my two cents out there I might get a lot of hate but I don't care people need to speak up and I've been speaking up for a very long time I'm 50 years old and I will continue to speak up for anyone

y'know france legalized it way before most

Gay marriage !!!!!!

no way its my lgbtq homies :D Also switzerland legalized gay rights :D

was their not a gay rights movement prior to stonewall?

I've been asking persons my age (I'm one year older than Seagle) and no one outside New York heard about Stonewall for weeks afterward. What they remember is the formation of the Homosexual Movement ie the GLF and the GAA.

It's all based on a lie thou. They acknowledged as much in this documentary. The bar was illegal, run by the mob, and didn't have a liquor license. That is why it was raised on a regular basis, not because it was a gay bar.

oh so that's where the shitshow we have today started

We get the joke that new Zealand is always left of the map but nz was one of the first country's to legalize gay marriage, so leaving it white is really frustrating

"Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness... --Isaiah 5:20

Where are the straights🤔🤨🧐

GAY PRIDE!!!

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Cancion dedicada a los que no respetan a la cumunidad gay. Fangoria. ( de que me culpas ? ) video clip 😘👭👬👪👫👍

I don’t agree with your premise!

Strictly as a gay movement gay, bisexual, and lesbian has to do with who you love. Trans has to do with what you think you are. So I dont really count them as part of the LGB community. They should make their own because their struggles are not the same

Sorry but the Gay Rights Movement, did not begin with Stonewall!

They were really lucky these people not to be in the middle east. I'm dead serious.

Rupaul needs to research his gay history

The beginning of the downfall of mankind

Gays are special... they deserve all the respect and resources of all taxpayers and govt officials.

Man Woman Birth Death Infinity -- -- -- always has been - always will be

ENOUGH of the "gay pride" already, it's getting nauseating.

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