{"id":1062,"date":"2019-06-15T22:21:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T03:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2019-06-15T22:21:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T03:21:38","slug":"why-stonewall-is-important-a-half-century-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/15\/why-stonewall-is-important-a-half-century-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Stonewall is Important a Half Century Later"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What is the relevance of the 1969 LGBT Stonewall Rebellion to today’s world?

At a time of unchecked bigotry in official politics and endless US-supported wars and drone bombings abroad, explore how the early LGBT liberation movement successfully confronted generations of institutionalized anti-gay hate.

The 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion will no doubt bring forth corporate LGBTs and their hangers-on attempting to purge it of its profoundly radical content.

But as a riot it was quintessentially radical, and vehemently opposed to established authority. A long oppressed minority, stereotyped as weak and hopelessly marginal <\/strong>\u2013<\/strong>successfully fought back against the brutality dished out by New York cops used to getting their own way. In so doing, they established a movement to which every out person today owes a huge debt for allowing us to more freely enjoy our lives.

Rather than get a superficial analysis of Stonewall from “moderates,” come to a panel of proudly radical LGBTQs to discuss why Stonewall was important, and what clues it gives to how we can defeat the Right today.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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7 PM, Friday, May 17<\/strong>

Berger Park Cultural Center<\/strong>

6205 N. Sheridan Road, Chicago<\/strong>
corner of Granville Avenue & Sheridan Road
3 blocks east of the “Granville” Red Line el stop
Wheelchair accessible – please use the south entrance<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the relevance of the 1969 LGBT Stonewall Rebellion to today’s world? At a time of unchecked bigotry in official politics and endless US-supported wars and drone bombings abroad, explore Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[227],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-stonewall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}