LGBTQ+ historians spoke with Newsweek about the history of activists like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.

The 1969 Stonewall Riots is the pivotal event most well-known to the LGBT community. Less remembered are protests that came beforehand, many of them happening in Los Angeles.

With the 50th anniversary of the June 1969 Stonewall riots in New York’s Greenwich Village taking place this weekend, the compelling story of how LGBT people fought back following the police ...

50 Years After Stonewall, LGBT Rights Are a Work in Progress The clashes between the NYPD and the young gays, lesbians and transgender people near The Stonewall Inn in New York City 50 years ago ...

The Stonewall riots, violence that erupted during a six-day standoff with police in June 1969, marked a watershed moment in the willingness of LGBT folks to fight for our visibility and our right ...

The Stonewall Inn in Manhattan is a landmark for the LGBT community. — -- With this weekend marking the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s ruling on legalizing gay marriage ...

NEW YORK (AP) — They didn’t set out to change history; they weren’t the first LGBT Americans to mobilize against bias. Yet the June 1969 uprising by young gays, lesbians and transgender ...

LGBT Americans serve as governors, big-city mayors and members of Congress, ... 50 Years After Stonewall, LGBT Rights Are a Work in Progress The clashes between the NYPD and the young gays, ...

Yet the June 1969 uprising by young gays, lesbians and transgender people in New York City, clashing with police near a bar called the Stonewall Inn, was a vital catalyst in expanding LGBT ...

The June 1969 uprising by young gays, lesbians and transgender people in New York City, clashing with police near the Stonewall Inn, was a vital catalyst in expanding LGBT activism nationwide and ...

The June 1969 uprising by young gays, lesbian and transgender people at Stonewall Inn in New York City was vital in expanding LGBT activism nationwide.