Craig Schoonmaker who suggested “gay pride” as a slogan for their cause. In 1970, a committee was formed to commemorate the New York uprising. LGBTQ+ communities across the US immediately latched on to the Stonewall riots as an event that cast a spotlight on their cause. “I think that it is useful not to look at how one or two ‘riots’ – Stonewall, Compton Street – had a big effect, but rather how all of the small manifestations of resistance had an overwhelming cumulative effect on the lives of people and the society in which they lived,” he said. The academic and activist argued that it is a mistake “to elevate ‘Stonewall’ as the sole example”. Yet “there has always been resistance by LGBTQ+ people against oppression – from the law, the police, government officials, church doctrine”, added Bronski, author of A Queer History of the United States. The clashes continued for more than three days, and heralded “a more militant approach – in a more militant era – in which gay people demanded respect and equality, rather than asking for it, or trying to educate the heterosexual population”, Michael Bronski, a professor in women’s and gender studies at Harvard University, told Newsweek.
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