Today we remember Stonewall for what it was and what has become after. I would like to honor my brothers and sisters who were there or had loved ones there. I'm to young to fully understand stonewalls impact since I wasn't born till 1981, but I understand the meaning behind Stonewall. Lets take time to remember Stonewall.
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The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. They are frequently cited as the first instance in American history when people in the homosexual community fought back against a government-sponsored system that persecuted sexual minorities, and they have become the defining event that marked the start of the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world.
What stonewall means to me as a young Transgender of 27 is freedom. Here you had people fighting for their right to simply be who they were at time when it was dangerous to be. These our the elders that live on in our hearts because they decided not to take it anymore.
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The Stonewall Riots lasted for five nights. They are seen today as the catalyst for the growth of the global gay liberation movement.
Forty years on, the BBC's Philippa Thomas talked to one of the rioters, Martin Boyce, about his memories of the night it started.
I am in the middle of a Move right now to Austin Texas to face no housing, maybe no car, and no job. Right now we are trying to get my vehicle to pass Texas standards. I am moving to help my roommate who is similar no job and no car. For me I was born in Texas so this a coming home and bringing someone who I care about to make it. This to me is the American dream.
My Dream is to better my life, but it doesn't stop there I want to take advantage of Austin as a college town and work on getting towards a Therapist degree. The 10 year plan is what I have in mind. Some day I will be going through SRS surgery myself. I also want to find a gay friendly church to join into. I went to one in Indiana that cared for gay and Transgender rights and loved it. To me that is where we have come in our Future from stonewall a person like me can be openly welcome in a Church that wants to protect gay rights. I'm not a religious person, but a Spiritual person it was so nice to be respected for once and not told how bad Gays and Transgenders are.
While we still have a long way to go our brothers and sisters fault before us to help places like that church in Indiana be possible. Our brothers and sisters fault for the ability to just be who they were. It is also a time when Transgender and gays were working together.
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Historians have long credited poor and working class drag queens, bull dykes and other transgender and gender-non-conforming people as key participants in the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion, but within the wider LGBT community that defining moment is all-too-often remembered as a gay, rather than LGBT, milestone. The International Court System and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force hope to change that. On June 25, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the riots that marked the birth of the modern LGBT rights movement, the two organizations will hold a dedication ceremony at the fabled New York City bar to unveil a plaque featuring the names of 40 transgender heroes past and present.
The plaque will go on permanent display at the bar, and Bay State visitors will likely recognize a few familiar names on the list. Among the 40 heroes are Gunner Scott, director of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC); Grace Sterling Stowell, executive director of the Boston Alliance of GLBT Youth (BAGLY); longtime activist Nancy Nangeroni, former president of the International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE), former co-host of GenderTalk Radio and current host of GenderVision; and Cole Thaler an MTPC founder who is now the transgender rights attorney for New York’s Lambda Legal.
We are community who has some problems, but on the day of Stonewall lets all come together to remember if gay or Transgender our Brothers and sisters fault. We are still fighting today which is the Legacy that they left us.
from Opednews 40 Years After Stonewall, Still a Long Way to Go
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I believe that someday, hopefully in my lifetime, homophobia will go the way of racism in this country and become an anomaly that is neither legitimized nor tolerated except in the most extremist pockets of society.
Because this nation was founded on the written principle that "all men are created equal" -- not just the straight ones.
We Remember you Stonewall and will never FORGET!