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Show Notes
In a time where it was illegal to be who you were and love who you wanted to love, abuse and discrimination to the LGBTQ+ community was constant. What did discrimination look like? How did a routine police raid escalate, and what did people do when they finally had enough? In celebration of the 50th pride anniversary, Jac explains what the Stonewall riots were and how they lead to a liberation of gay rights in the United States.
Sources:
https://time.com/5598363/stonewall-beginnings-history/
https://www.history.com/topics/gay-rights/the-stonewall-riots
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-stonewall-riot
https://time.com/5598363/stonewall-beginnings-history/
https://www.history.com/news/stonewall-riots-facts-gay-rights-lgbt
https://www.loc.gov/lgbt-pride-month/about/
http://milkfoundation.org/about/harvey-milk-biography/
Transcript
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hello everybody and welcome back to
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another episode of how did we not know
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that I’m Matt I’m Jack something really
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exciting yeah okay so as you may or may
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not know this month is Pride Month June
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and this year is actually going to be
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the 50th anniversary of the pride
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parades so today I decided that we
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should talk about Stonewall Riots
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because that is a really significant
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part of Pride history and I did not know
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a lot about it I have a lot of friends
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in the lgbtq+ community and I’m always
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hearing about the Stonewall Riots but I
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never really looked into it for myself
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to do today excited I also don’t know
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all the details you know yeah all the
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juicy details yeah so just start out
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we’re actually going to talk about the
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history of abuse to the lgbtq+ community
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because a lot of people they still get a
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lot of abuse today and a lot of the
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reason for the rioting was because of
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just getting tired of the abuse and
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taking a stand for themselves so a lot
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of members of the queer community in
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addition to just having straight-up
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bullying and hey were also victims of
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discriminatory laws so for a while it
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was legal to deny the sale of alcohol or
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service to them they were also banned
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from working certain jobs especially
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those who were transgender homosexuality
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used to be called a mental disorder they
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were called sick and there are also bans
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on queers entering the army and they
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were allowed to be discriminated against
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by their sexual orientation so all of
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this and there’s also terrible things
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with conversion therapy and like
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electric shock therapy that was legal to
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perform on anyone who identified as gay
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or queer
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that’s awful yeah so now we’re gonna go
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into the gay rights movement in America
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so the first documented u.s. gay rights
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organization it was actually the Society
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for Human Rights
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now I was founded in Chicago in 1924
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yeah and unfortunately they were police
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raids on me organizations so they ended
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up disbanding within a year in 1925 Wow
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yeah short-lived so after this time we
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don’t really see a ton of gay rights
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movement groups if they are they’re
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really secretive I guess they’re not
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documented but in the 60s of the USA
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there was a lot of movements for civil
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rights so there is the african-american
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civil rights movement we talked about
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the Native American civil rights
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movement there’s the birth of feminism
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which is women’s rights and then there’s
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also a huge turning point for the gay
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rights movement so right now in the
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states it’s still illegal for you to
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publicly display homosexuality so you
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can’t engage in any gay behavior in
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public like holding hands kissing or
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dancing with someone of the same sex
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it’s still illegal and because yeah no
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you’re good
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do you know what the penalty is like do
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you just have to pay a fine like or do
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you have to go to jail yeah I think it’s
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you can get arrested and then you would
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maybe be tried I’m sure there was a fine
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for it as well
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record and then that yeah and it’s your
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daily life to it that’s on your record
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right probably like I’m thinking like
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speeding tickets just because I just got
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one Oh like and you know how you like
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you can you go to court and then you get
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tried and you will pay a fine or if you
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don’t pay that fine than you can like
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get a larger fine or something like that
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I’m hoping it’s something like that and
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not that you actually like are placed in
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jail for like years yeah okay mmhmm yeah
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um yeah it’s my speeding ticket sir
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reminding me still I gotta pay that one
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um because of this because they can’t
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display you know their love for each
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other a lot of people in the lgbtq+
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community in to flock to gay bars and
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clubs which are places of refuge where
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they can express themselves open
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and socialize without worry you’re
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probably wondering as I did Oh like well
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if it’s illegal then how are there gay
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bars so do you have a guess as to why
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they’re still gay bars if it’s illegal
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in the States
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okay so I actually hadn’t have heard
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that I would have said like oh like it
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was just like a front like technically
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the owners would say it’s just a regular
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straight bar but it’s like kind of
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secretly on the on the down-low kind of
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mmhmm yeah that’s that’s right
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that’s right you also know that it’s run
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by the Mafia which we have another
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episode about which you guys should
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check out it’s called how much money did
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the Mafia make so you can listen to that
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after this
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but yeah the Mafia had so much money in
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power in the United States that they
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would just pay off the police or
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politicians to look the other way and
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not raid the bars so that would create a
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safe space for LGBT and I know that’s
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like oh the Mafia so nice so open know
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like it’s very much about money for the
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Mafia they would still like overcharge
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the goers by go right was it like
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attendees yeah yeah they would charge
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them with like watered-down drinks the
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drinks were terrible the conditions of
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the club were unsafe like no fire exit
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because there was bribing the police
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anyway so they just got away with
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cutting costs like everywhere they could
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yeah and they also yeah they also would
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um blackmail the really wealthy patrons
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who like came so if you’re wealthy and
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you’re hiding the fact that you’re gay
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they wouldn’t blackmail you a lot and
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get more money so we stopped them like
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the Mafia okay that was that was
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something that they did so then one of
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the gay bars and we’re in New York City
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by the way this is all taking place in
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New York well I’ll be illegal stuff is
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like everywhere in the states but for
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this specifically there’s a particular
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gay bar called the Stonewall Inn so this
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is located in the Greenwich Village
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neighborhood of New York City and it was
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run by
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the Genovese family of the Mafia yeah
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and either way even though they’re
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ripping off a lot of people it was still
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relatively cheap to enter and it
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welcomed drag queens and it was a
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nightly home for many Runaways and
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homeless gay youths so it was also one
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of the Stonewall in was also one of the
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only gay bars left that allowed dancing
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so oh but it some gay bars even within
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those areas like the owners perhaps yeah
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this is just like my notes from it but
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yeah I don’t know I don’t know but I’m
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sure like take it for granted being able
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today definitely so then one of the
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early morning morning’s on June 28th
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1969 though apparently the Mafia didn’t
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pay off the police in time or something
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this is what’s rumored to have happened
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even though there’s also articles that
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I’ve read that say that even if you do
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pay off the police sometimes they still
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will raid the bars anyways so regardless
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during this morning the police came in
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with a warrant and raided the bar and
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they started to rough up the patrons
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which is a lot of articles that say they
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the police roughed up patrons but and
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that makes it sound lighter than what it
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actually was they were like physically
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beating them up like physically hitting
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them with batons that’s what rough up
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means which was like it’s weird that
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they like always try to put like a nicer
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phrase to describe it I know they were
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aggressively like pushing them around
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they’re really heating them up hitting
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them with batons just arresting them
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slumping them up against walls and
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inspecting their gender and there was
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something called a 3-piece clothing rule
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which is what they would arrest people
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based on so the three-piece clothing
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rule wasn’t actually a law we’re gonna
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go into that too it’s just kind of like
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a rule of thumb but it was that you
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needed to wear three pieces of clothing
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deemed by them as appropriate to your
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gender and if you weren’t
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you would then be arrested so yeah and
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the reason why this isn’t actually a law
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is because the actual state law of the
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three-piece clothing law was intended to
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punish rural farmers who had taken a
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dressing like Native Americans to fight
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off tax collectors Wow
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yes that’s insane yeah it’s wild so a
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lot of rural farmers used to pretend to
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be Native Americans so they wouldn’t
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have to pay certain taxes and so that
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law was created like the 3-piece
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clothing law but a lot of the times
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police and law enforcement would take
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that law and twist it in a way that
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would help them make their arrest so
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they applied it to this situation they
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also applied it to one of the protests
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when in like 2011 or 2008 when we had
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the recession like the recent recession
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there I think there was a protest where
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people went to Wall Street and were
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protesting like the bad mortgages and
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they would wear masks maybe like to hide
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their identity and then they would get
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arrested on the three-piece clothing law
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just not a real law and not really
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intended for that
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Wow so it’s still like even though it’s
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not even a real lot so kind of exists
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today mm-hmm yeah that was what they’re
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getting arrested for and eventually okay
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so the biggest part of stonewalled is
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how did the riots start right like it’s
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just a police raid and a raids happen
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all the time people are getting arrested
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so why in particular did this time turn
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into a big riot which sparked the start
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of the civil the gay rights movement and
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that big question from that night is who
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threw the first brick because the brick
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is symbolizing some apparently someone
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threw a brick and that’s when everything
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got violent and people started to rise
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up so that’s still actually debated as
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to how that got started and escalated
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and it’s not confirmed whether a brick
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was actually thrown or who actually
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threw it so that’s still no one really
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knows but a lot of people did throw
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stones that’s confirmed like there’s a
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lot of accounts of people there who were
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like yeah we threw stones there were
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bricks nearby
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know if anyone threw a brick I don’t
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remember what the phrase is so who threw
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the first brick and there are three
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important women who are debated to have
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started the excavation but none of them
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have been confirmed and we’re going to
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talk about them right now the first of
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which is Marsha P Johnson which we’ve
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been hearing a lot about recently in the
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news for all of her service to both the
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black community and the gay community
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and Marsha P Johnson was an American gay
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liberation activist and a
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self-identified drag queen she was also
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African American Sylvia Rivera was a
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Latina American and she was part of the
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gay liberation and transgender rights
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activism and she also identified as a
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drag queen she claims she threw the
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second shot glass but she didn’t throw
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the first and then the last person that
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uh is debated to have thrown the first
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brick is storming dallara VA and she was
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a gay rights activist who was described
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as a butch lesbian and was working as a
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bouncer at the bar that night and the
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reason I actually feel like stormy could
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have been the one who started it even
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though I think she claimed that she was
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in or maybe pushed off that all the like
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praise for her was there actually four
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accounts and several Testaments from
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people who were there that night of a
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butch woman who was getting roughed up
0:12:29.910,0:12:33.870
by the police and started to really
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fight back so she was getting beat up
0:12:33.870,0:12:38.010
and everything and then she screamed out
0:12:36.240,0:12:39.300
to the crowd what are you doing are you
0:12:38.010,0:12:43.470
just standing there why don’t you do
0:12:39.300,0:12:45.570
something and there isn’t really any
0:12:43.470,0:12:47.700
conclusive proof that it was her but
0:12:45.570,0:12:51.029
sometimes she claims that sometimes she
0:12:47.700,0:12:52.920
denies it and it’s attributed to like
0:12:51.029,0:12:55.620
many many accounts attributed to this
0:12:52.920,0:12:57.930
lady who really kind of got by standards
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and people of the bar who had been
0:12:57.930,0:13:01.980
started to get arrested
0:12:59.190,0:13:06.060
really angry and starting to fight back
0:13:01.980,0:13:07.829
so either way since we don’t know out of
0:13:06.060,0:13:09.510
the three or even maybe there’s someone
0:13:07.829,0:13:11.520
else who’s not even in these three who
0:13:09.510,0:13:13.200
threw the first brick we still celebrate
0:13:11.520,0:13:15.209
them as important figures in the gay
0:13:13.200,0:13:16.140
rights movement and it doesn’t really
0:13:15.209,0:13:18.270
matter who
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first brick or stone it just matters
0:13:18.270,0:13:23.270
more that someone stood up and fought
0:13:19.740,0:13:26.220
back yeah I know and after you know
0:13:23.270,0:13:28.320
exactly it just takes i think the good
0:13:26.220,0:13:30.540
lesson is like you it just takes one
0:13:28.320,0:13:32.190
person to stand up and i think the first
0:13:30.540,0:13:33.810
two people are the most important
0:13:32.190,0:13:35.430
because the first person does it and
0:13:33.810,0:13:38.160
then when someone else follows that like
0:13:35.430,0:13:41.220
it just creates a ripple effect of yeah
0:13:38.160,0:13:43.590
i’m wanting to participate and it’s
0:13:41.220,0:13:46.020
funny because who threw the first brick
0:13:43.590,0:13:49.290
has become a bit of a meme to celebrate
0:13:46.020,0:13:51.570
a gay icons so i don’t know if you have
0:13:49.290,0:13:56.190
been keeping up with some of the more
0:13:51.570,0:13:58.170
like pop culture news but apparently JK
0:13:56.190,0:14:00.930
Rowling tweeted something that was
0:13:58.170,0:14:02.550
deemed like anti trans and Daniel
0:14:00.930,0:14:05.310
Radcliffe recently spoke up about
0:14:02.550,0:14:07.710
transgender rights in response to it so
0:14:05.310,0:14:10.970
people couldn’t say Daniel Radcliffe
0:14:07.710,0:14:13.260
threw the first brick at Stonewall
0:14:10.970,0:14:15.600
unfortunately he did not actually do
0:14:13.260,0:14:17.940
that but it’s a way to kind of say that
0:14:15.600,0:14:22.560
this person is standing up for LGBTQ up
0:14:17.940,0:14:26.640
against I against discrimination exactly
0:14:22.560,0:14:28.550
after the first brick is thrown then and
0:14:26.640,0:14:31.590
the officers are roughing up this
0:14:28.550,0:14:33.450
lesbian that everyone’s claimed that
0:14:31.590,0:14:35.640
seening and she shouts onto the
0:14:33.450,0:14:37.170
onlookers they start to act and they
0:14:35.640,0:14:38.970
start to throw pennies bottles
0:14:37.170,0:14:41.940
cobblestone and other objects at the
0:14:38.970,0:14:43.680
police so they were starting to get so
0:14:41.940,0:14:45.690
fed up with the constant police
0:14:43.680,0:14:47.760
harassment and social discrimination and
0:14:45.690,0:14:50.940
abuse that they start to fight back they
0:14:47.760,0:14:53.010
start slashing tires and a mob starts to
0:14:50.940,0:14:54.720
grow and it’s not just again the patrons
0:14:53.010,0:14:56.340
it’s other people passing by who are
0:14:54.720,0:15:00.930
really upset with the handling of this
0:14:56.340,0:15:03.810
situation and it gets so violent where
0:15:00.930,0:15:06.870
they’re using parking meters to like
0:15:03.810,0:15:08.850
bang on the doors and they’re making
0:15:06.870,0:15:11.100
like impromptu fire bombs and throwing
0:15:08.850,0:15:13.410
them around the Newark Police Department
0:15:11.100,0:15:15.630
officers actually retreat into the
0:15:13.410,0:15:17.880
Stonewall to barricade themselves so now
0:15:15.630,0:15:19.410
it’s just the police are inside and
0:15:17.880,0:15:23.460
everyone else outside so this is why
0:15:19.410,0:15:25.010
they start trying to light the Stonewall
0:15:23.460,0:15:27.750
Inn on fire I don’t know if it actually
0:15:25.010,0:15:30.770
got lit on fire but they were throwing
0:15:27.750,0:15:33.960
like matches and fireball
0:15:30.770,0:15:37.710
and then and they’re trying to breach
0:15:33.960,0:15:43.260
the doors to to get to the officers
0:15:37.710,0:15:45.180
so eventually though the fire department
0:15:43.260,0:15:47.670
comes and the police get out and then
0:15:45.180,0:15:48.780
they form and this was like several
0:15:47.670,0:15:50.820
accounts from people who are actually
0:15:48.780,0:15:52.980
there said that they actually formed
0:15:50.820,0:15:55.740
Rockette style kick lines against the
0:15:52.980,0:15:58.260
police and started singing which sounds
0:15:55.740,0:16:00.060
like it’s yeah it sounds like it’s a
0:15:58.260,0:16:03.920
movie but they really just like formed
0:16:00.060,0:16:12.930
many kick lines and then just like did
0:16:03.920,0:16:14.670
so much the technology existed so yeah
0:16:12.930,0:16:18.150
they did it so there’s actually a
0:16:14.670,0:16:19.470
Stonewall movie that came out I feel
0:16:18.150,0:16:21.000
like everything we talk about there’s
0:16:19.470,0:16:24.050
always a movie that has been released
0:16:21.000,0:16:28.050
but they try they did like a scene um
0:16:24.050,0:16:31.020
representing this as well around 4:00
0:16:28.050,0:16:34.380
a.m. that night or that day I guess um
0:16:31.020,0:16:36.600
they were continuing to riot but then it
0:16:34.380,0:16:38.490
got dispersed at 4:00 a.m. and they
0:16:36.600,0:16:40.740
riots continued and the protest
0:16:38.490,0:16:43.050
continued for several days after and so
0:16:40.740,0:16:47.790
all of those riots each night ended up
0:16:43.050,0:16:51.180
lasting till July 3rd ah mono still in
0:16:47.790,0:16:56.970
1969 and after those current kind of
0:16:51.180,0:16:59.310
settled down it started the well these
0:16:56.970,0:17:01.470
protests are credited for the force that
0:16:59.310,0:17:03.540
formed the Gay Liberation Front which
0:17:01.470,0:17:05.970
was an organization and a collection of
0:17:03.540,0:17:08.689
gay lesbian and bisexual civil rights
0:17:05.970,0:17:11.100
organizations that were fighting for
0:17:08.689,0:17:14.160
LGBTQ rights so that formed immediately
0:17:11.100,0:17:15.930
after the Stonewall riots and then the
0:17:14.160,0:17:19.290
next year on the anniversary of
0:17:15.930,0:17:21.569
Stonewall on June 28th 1970 the gay
0:17:19.290,0:17:24.060
liberation movement organized a march in
0:17:21.569,0:17:26.490
memory of the protests and that has been
0:17:24.060,0:17:27.900
held every single year since then and
0:17:26.490,0:17:32.040
that’s what we know today is pride
0:17:27.900,0:17:35.160
parades oh yeah and this is the 50th
0:17:32.040,0:17:37.920
year anniversary so really exciting
0:17:35.160,0:17:41.310
times and the official chant of the
0:17:37.920,0:17:43.440
parade was say it loud gay is proud this
0:17:41.310,0:17:45.480
is really cute because
0:17:43.440,0:17:48.409
I think when they’re coming up with the
0:17:45.480,0:17:51.029
phrase they said something like
0:17:48.409,0:17:53.340
something about gay people didn’t have
0:17:51.029,0:17:55.350
rights but they something they could
0:17:53.340,0:17:57.389
have was like pride they could be proud
0:17:55.350,0:17:59.519
of who they were so say allowing gays
0:17:57.389,0:18:02.429
crowd was there like you’re forced to
0:17:59.519,0:18:05.250
hide your identity and hide your
0:18:02.429,0:18:07.470
sexuality and you can’t be like you’re
0:18:05.250,0:18:10.860
in danger you know if you share that
0:18:07.470,0:18:14.879
with the public yeah that’s how is
0:18:10.860,0:18:17.009
everyone you privately right and that
0:18:14.879,0:18:19.250
was I guess like most a lot of the abuse
0:18:17.009,0:18:21.720
was really just like shame like
0:18:19.250,0:18:23.879
consistent shame from family from
0:18:21.720,0:18:25.230
friends from society just telling you
0:18:23.879,0:18:27.720
that like something was wrong with you
0:18:25.230,0:18:29.429
because of who you were and how you felt
0:18:27.720,0:18:31.860
like your feelings were wrong and you
0:18:29.429,0:18:36.570
just had problems so they’re reclaiming
0:18:31.860,0:18:39.029
their pride yeah and Jun was later
0:18:36.570,0:18:40.799
designated as LGBT Pride Month to
0:18:39.029,0:18:44.039
commemorate the uprising it was
0:18:40.799,0:18:46.169
acknowledged by Bill Clinton and the
0:18:44.039,0:18:48.960
Obama administration that June was prime
0:18:46.169,0:18:50.730
month and later on in the during the
0:18:48.960,0:18:52.470
Obama administration the Stonewall Inn
0:18:50.730,0:18:55.259
was declared a national monument and
0:18:52.470,0:18:57.240
then 2019 the New York Police Department
0:18:55.259,0:18:59.940
issued an apology for the police’s
0:18:57.240,0:19:01.529
treatment of the LGBTQ community and the
0:18:59.940,0:19:03.269
years of enforcement of discriminatory
0:19:01.529,0:19:06.600
laws on them
0:19:03.269,0:19:08.460
so overall the Stonewall riots were a
0:19:06.600,0:19:10.620
catalyst for the gay rights movement and
0:19:08.460,0:19:17.519
not just in the USA but around the
0:19:10.620,0:19:20.279
entire world oh happy Pride happy Pride
0:19:17.519,0:19:22.649
Month I know it’s sad because we can’t
0:19:20.279,0:19:24.330
really have pride parades this year but
0:19:22.649,0:19:27.720
I’ve seen a lot of people are doing like
0:19:24.330,0:19:29.450
virtual like five caves and or an honor
0:19:27.720,0:19:33.240
of Pride Month and my online
0:19:29.450,0:19:37.590
celebrations and fundraisers you can
0:19:33.240,0:19:40.220
still celebrate oh yeah oh oh my gosh
0:19:37.590,0:19:42.330
yeah thank you so much for sharing that
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of course
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toasting and yeah thanks everyone for
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listening don’t forget to yeah like
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don’t forget to share this with your
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friends and leave us a review and check
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out all those other
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you mentioned yes
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