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Homo Nest Raided, Queen Bees Are Stinging Mad. The New York Daily News, July 6, 1969. By JERRY LISKER. She sat there with her legs crossed, the lashes of her mascara-coated eyes beating like the ...
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The June 1969 riots at New York City's Stonewall Inn marked a raucous turning point in the fight for LGBTQ rights.
On a hot summer night in 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a bar located in New York City’s Greenwich Village that served as a haven for the city’s gay, lesbian and transgender community.
At the time, homosexual acts remained illegal in every state except Illinois, and bars and restaurants could get shut down for having gay employees or serving gay patrons. Most gay bars and clubs in New York at the time (including the Stonewall) were operated by the Mafia, who paid corrupt police officers to look the other way and blackmailed wealthy gay patrons by threatening to “out” them.
How the Stonewall Riots Sparked a Movement
Police raids on gay bars were common, but on that particular night, members of the city’s LGBTQ community decided to fight back—sparking an uprising that would launch a new era of resistance and revolution.
June 24, 1969: Police arrest Stonewall employees, confiscate alcohol.
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“Homo Nest Raided, Queen Bees Are Stinging Mad” from New York Daily News, July 6, 1969 Front page of the New York Daily News from July 6, 1969. Image from the New York Daily News Archive/Getty Images.
Jun 8, 2019 · “Homo Nest Raided, Queen Bees Are Stinging Mad” blared the headline on the front page of the New York Daily News. “Lilies of the valley” “pranced out to the street” when the cops ...
May 28, 2021 · The homophobic headline of the New York Daily News ‘ Stonewall article from July 6, 1969, reads “Homo Nest Raided — Queen Bees are Stinging Mad.”. The Stonewall article has both a voyeuristic tone and an endless fascination with men dressed as women, and the author repeatedly switches gendered nouns and pronouns when referring to the ...
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Jun 24, 2019 · “Homo Nest Raided, Queen Bees Are Stinging Mad.” That huge headline ran in the New York Daily News, on July 6, 1969, a week after the Stonewall riots, the week of political action that birthed the modern LGBTQ rights movement. Police had raided the Stonewall Inn, a small bar in Greenwich Village the night of June 27, 1969.
Sep 5, 2024 · Imagine, Lee Daniels, Danny Strong, Little Chicken, 20th Television. Taraji P. Henson ’s character in the Fox series Empire is a legend. She’s bold, outspoken, and totally over-the-top. But on ...
