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Ray Castro, 1969 Stonewall Rebellion vet, dies at 68

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:30:21 +0000

From GLAAD:

(New York) Raymond Castro, a veteran of the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion in New York City, died in his hometown of Madeira Beach, Florida on Saturday, Oct. 9. He was 68 years old and(...)

Tuesday Watercooler: Antigay attacks in Stonewall and Chelsea

CStottlemyer — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:00:36 +0000

Two antigay attacks happen in Chelsea and at the Stonewall over the weekend.

And it continues. While people in other parts of the country attended memorials for the teens who committed(...)

2 arrested in anti-gay beating at Stonewall Inn

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:45:11 +0000

(New York) A patron at the Stonewall Inn, a powerful symbol of the gay rights movement since protests over a 1969 police raid there, was tackled to the floor and beaten in an anti-gay bias(...)

Police inspector who led raid on Stonewall Inn dies at 91

Jennifer Vanasco — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:30:07 +0000

Seymour Pine, who led the 1969 raid on the gay bar – the Stonewall Inn – which sparked the modern gay rights movement died at 91. Pine was a deputy police inspector at the time and later apologized for the raid, according to his obituary in the New York Times. The Times said: “Although the ostensible [...]

Thursday Watercooler: Mitcham comes to defense of fellow swimmer

James Withers — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:18:07 +0000

Officer who led Stonewall Inn raid dies. Seymour Pine, the deputy police inspector who led the 1969 raid on the Stonewall Inn, died last Thursday in New Jersey. The 91 year old was in charge of(...)

Tues. Watercooler: NOM sign calls for murder of gay couples

logointern2 — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:33:55 +0000

NOM sign calls for murder. The anti-gay National Organization of Marriage took its nationwide bus tour to Indianapolis on Monday, where one supporter delivered a deadly message.

In a(...)

Withers: A historical figure no one remembers

James Withers — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:29:04 +0000

The thing about freedom movements is that it’s easy to forget. While that’s regrettable, it is unavoidable. You see it here all the time. People will go on and on praising Martin Luther King,(...)

Neff: Powering the gay movement

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:58:38 +0000

Frank Kameny was way ahead of the times, paving the way for many who followed him into the LGBT civil rights movement.

Kameny once told me that the late pioneering gay activist Henry “Harry”(...)

Gay History Month: Joan Nestle

logointern1 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:00:46 +0000

Joan Nestle is the co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives. She is also a Lambda award-winning editor and writer.

She was born and raised in New York City in 1940.

In the 1950s and ’60s,(...)

Police raid Rainbow Lounge on Stonewall anniversary

barbarasimon — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:22:59 +0000

The arrested and injured patrons of the Rainbow Lounge in Fort Worth speak out about the controversial raid carried out on the same day as the Stonewall riots anniversary. Police have suspended further raids with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission and lawmakers are calling for an outside investigation. Carol Cavazos reports from Fort Worth.