What happened in gay history

As it was raided by the police in the early hours, three nights of unrest followed, with LGBT people, long frustrated by police brutality, finally fighting back. This anniversary is a reminder of the power of standing together in defiance of those who seek to divide us.

The Stonewall uprising took place in the context of broader civil rights movements. The Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention in was a key moment in which activists from Black Power, feminist and gay liberation movements came together, saw common cause and learned from each other.

The Gay Liberation Front was the main organisation that formed out of the uprising and these wider movements. In the UK, sexual acts between men had been partially decriminalised inbut there was a huge amount of persecution of gay and bi men afterwards. Campaigning at the time was mainly led by the Homosexual Law Reform Society.

The s were characterised by radical grassroots and community-based activism and support. The LGBT community was politically and socially stigmatised throughout the s, creating the hostile political context that allowed Section 28 to be passed as law. This piece of legislation effectively prevented teachers from talking about same-sex relationships in schools, forcing teachers back into the closet, or out of their job, and scarring a generation of LGBT people.

The Gay Liberation Movement

The first Limehouse Declaration, announcing the launch of the Social Democrat Party, had been signed in the house next door. Parenting rights. Partnership rights. An equal age of consent. Published June 28, News Blog Communities International. Stonewall was created to fight this discrimination in the UK, 20 years after the uprising.

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