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42 Years Later, LGBT Americans Remember the Impact of the Stonewall Riots

OIA Staff — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:13:38 +0000

Today marks the 42nd anniversary of the beginning of the famous riots at New York City’s Stonewall Inn that served as a catalyst for the modern movement for LGBT equality. In the early morning hours of Saturday, June 28, 1969, police led a raid at the Stonewall Inn, a bar located in Greenwich Village on [...]

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Ray Castro, Veteran of 1969 Stonewall Rebellion Dies at 68

OIA Staff — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:54:56 +0000

Raymond Castro, a veteran of the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion in New York City, died in his hometown of Madeira Beach, Florida on Saturday, October 9th. He was 68 years old and is survived by his husband of 31 years, Frank Sturniolo, 50. On June 27, 1969 Castro was inside the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street, [...]

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Two arrested in anti-gay beating at famed New York City gay bar

OIA Staff — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:43:50 +0000

A patron at the Stonewall Inn, a powerful symbol of the gay rights movement since protests over a 1969 police raid there, was tackled to the floor and beaten in an anti-gay bias attack over the weekend, authorities said Monday. Two men were arrested in the early Sunday beating, which came little more than a [...]

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Seymour Pine Dies at 91 – Led Raid on Stonewall Inn

OIA Staff — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:11:46 +0000

Seymour Pine, the deputy police inspector who led the raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village, on a hot summer night in 1969 — a moment that helped start the gay liberation movement — died Thursday at an assisted-living center in Whippany, N.J. He was 91. Inspector Pine, who later apologized [...]

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“Snatching Our Humanity out of the Fire of Human Cruelty” – A History of the Black LGBT Movement

OIA Staff — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:08:07 +0000

It began organically—in the wee hours of a June morning in 1969, in the Greenwich Village section of New York City—with several brave men and women who’d grown tired of the government-sponsored persecution of them because of who they were. It was a revolution. At the Stonewall Inn, our brothers and sisters fought for their [...]

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CONTEST: Win Hunter Valentine’s We’re Here to Recruit You DVD

OIA Staff — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:24:11 +0000

Silver Label/Tommy Boy presents We’re Here to Recruit You DVD from the hot new Toronto trio, Hunter Valentine Most of it is live performances of songs from their forthcoming US debut EP, “Lessons From the Late Night,” which was filmed on June 27, 2009, in New York City at the legendary Stonewall Inn on the [...]

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Meet Rock N Roll’s Newest Heartbreakers: Hunter Valentine

OIA Staff — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:38:04 +0000

CONTEST: Win Hunter Valentine’s We’re Here to Recruit You We want to introduce you to hot new Toronto trio, Hunter Valentine with their super fan-friendly DVD, We’re Here To Recruit You. Most of it is live performances of songs from their forthcoming US debut EP, “Lessons From the Late Night,” which was filmed on June [...]

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Group Petitions to Expand 1964 Civil Rights Act to Include LGBT

OIA Staff — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:56:52 +0000

This morning, a press conference was held outside New York’s historic Stonewall Inn by grassroots online group The Power announcing its LGBT Civil Rights campaign for full equality. At the presser, the group presented U.S. Congressman Jerrold Nadler with a signed petition for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to expand the 1964 Civil Rights Act to [...]

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Stonewall Riots Anniversary

OIA Staff — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:26:37 +0000

Series of violent confrontations that began in the early hours of June 28, 1969, between police and gay rights activists outside the Stonewall Inn, a bar in New York City. As the riots progressed, an international gay rights movement was born. Read more about the beginning and history of the gay rights movement… [ Britannica [...]

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LGBT Pride Month, 2009

OIA Staff — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:26:42 +0000

- – - – - – - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Forty years ago, patrons and supporters of the Stonewall Inn in New York City resisted police harassment that had become all too common for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. Out of this [...]

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