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A 6 page discussion of the Stonewall Riots, focusing heavily on a text by Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution by D. Cater (2004). Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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which is located in the Greenwich Village of New York City, as the epicenter of this activity (Carter, 2004). There is widespread consensus that the Stonewall Riots provided the impetus
that generated the gay rights movement. Pagan, in reviewing a book by Thomas Foster (Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America, 2007), indicates the riots as beginning
on June 27, which is when the patrons of the Stonewall Inn "courageously resisted a police raid" (Pagan, 2008, p. 179). The
Stonewall Riots dramatically thrust the "struggle for civil rights for homosexuals into the consciousness of North Americans" (Violette, 2002, p. 86). This movement, of course, included a wide variety of
people who experienced oppression due to their sexual orientation, such as lesbians and trans-gendered individuals (Violette, 2002). Examination of this pivotal occurrence in the history of same-sex sexual orientation in
the US affords insight into why and how the Stonewall Riots were pivotal in igniting a movement, leading to a greater degree of civil rights for gays and lesbians. Community
organizing Fred Fejes, in his book on the gay rights movement, describes gays and lesbians as an "imagined community," which he writes is a "community defined not by physical space
and boundaries or the actual physical contact among its members, but by the mental image of affinity," which he associated with "the image of communion-that each [holds] in their minds"
(Cava, 2009, p. 350). Two communities emerged from the Stonewall Riots, with one a reaction to the other. The first to emerge was a "national political community" comprised of lesbians
and homosexual men, for whom San Francisco politician and gay activist Harvey Milk was the "first surrogate martyr" (Cava, 2009, p. 350). The second imagined community was comprised of "social
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