The Summer of Stonewall

by Michael Jones · 2009-05-28 06:40:00 UTC
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As we get nearer and nearer to summer (despite the frosty weather up here in the Northeast!), we're getting closer to the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.  We wrote last week with an action to encourage you to contact Congress to support H.R. 433, a resolution in the House of Representatives that would officially commemorate the Stonewall Riots and their historical significance to the civil rights of LGBT people around the country.

And now we're getting ready for the latest installment of PBS's "In the Life," which is set to air a documentary next month, "The Summer of Stonewall," looking at the progress we've made for LGBT rights in the four decades since a small group of LGBT people took over a bar in Greenwich Village and fought back against a police department that routinely harrassed and persecuted gay people.

Check out the YouTube preview for the movie below.  You won't be disappointed.  As one of the commentators in the film says, "We have been marching and struggling and fighting for 40 years.  We will not wait 40 more."  An appropriate message this week, it seems, given all the rallies and gatherings for marriage equality in the wake of the California Supreme Court's Proposition 8 ruling.

Michael Jones is a Change.org Editor. He has worked in the field of human rights communications for a decade, most recently for Harvard Law School.
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