[L.G.B.T.Q.

Resistance At Stonewall]

Jackson Sanders and Clare Martinez

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 Process Paper

Section 1​:
We got our topic from a list of numerous barriers that were broken that Mr.Reyes posted
on schoology. When we were looking at this document we stumbled upon the L.G.B.T.Q.
resistance at Stonewall and we have always wondered how the L.G.B.T.Q. community had
gotten their rights in America to be themselves.

Section 2:
The way we looked for our sources was we googled our topic, the L.G.B.T.Q. resistance
at the Stonewall Inn and looked at the different things that were there first and we actually found
a lot of the resources that we needed to do that. But most of the resources we found were
secondary sources so we looked up Resistance at Stonewall primary sources and we found many
different things. For example we found police records of some of the people arrested from the
riots, a documentary on the resistance at stonewall that was produced a few years after the riots,
and we also found a decent amount of audio recordings that some journalists took of the
protesters and people from the riots.

Section 3:
When we were researching, we had a few questions like ,“What was it like for the
L.G.B.T.Q. community before the resistance at Stonewall?”, “What were the effects after
stonewall?”, and “what was the timeline of the different specific events at Stonewall?”. If we
found specific times, dates, important people, it was from a credible source, and they mentioned
it in multiple of our sources. We used the NHD project rules in the website category to know
how many pages we needed to have and what needed to be on each of the pages. Once we had an
outline of what needed to go where the writing process was pretty straight forward.

Section 4​:
The L.G.B.T.Q. resistance at Stonewall broke barriers because it helped change laws that
prohibited the L.G.B.T.Q. community from being themselves in America. Many of the people
during the Stonewall riots were thrown into prison and abused by the NYPD because they liked
the same gender, wore clothing that their gender didn’t normally wear, or supported the
L.G.B.T.Q. community. Homosexuality was looked at as a mental disability before the Stonewall
riots. Now the laws that imprisoned the people during the Stonewall riots are revoked and now in
America anyone can love whoever they want, people can wear anything they want, and people
can be any gender they personally identify with without being reprimanded.
 Annotated Bibliography

Primary Sources:

Astor, Amy, Kriminologi.id, Michael Allen, Michael V. Susi, Linda, Boris Merman, and Ned
Flaherty. "The Rejected." The Rejected - Bay Area Television Archive.
https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/225539.

This is the first televised documentary on homosexuality in America. It was released on

September 11, 1961 on KQED which is a ​public media outlet based in San Francisco,
California, which operates the radio station K.Q.E.D. and the television stations.
We can use this documentary to get a greater understanding of what the people at stonewall
went through. We will also be able to see and hear some of the victims.

Chan, Sewell. "Police Records Document Start of Stonewall Uprising." The New York Times.
June 22, 2009.
https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/police-records-document-the-stonewall-up
rising/.

This document was put together by sewell Chan from the new york times. This was published in
June 22, 2009. It contains pictures of police records and quotes from interrogations. We can use
this to see what the captured victims at stonewall had to go through and why the police would
imprison people of the LGBTQ community.

"Documenting the Stonewall Riots: A Bibliography of Primary Sources." Department of History.

https://history.sfsu.edu/content/documenting-stonewall-riots-bibliography-primary-sources.

This is a bibliography of primary sources from​ The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History ​by
Marc Stein.There are three categories that they put the sources in Before Stonewall, During
Stonewall, and After Stonewall. We can use this to see what life was like before the riots and
what changed after the riots.

"Stonewall and Its Impact on the Gay Liberation Movement." Stonewall and Its Impact on the
Gay Liberation Movement | DPLA.
https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/stonewall-and-its-impact-on-the-gay-liberation-movemen
t.

This is a primary source that was put together by Lucy Santos the source of this document.
This is an audio from activists and radios during the riots. It also shows pictures of documents
by activists and articles at the time it was taken. We can hear from people who were there
experiencing the riots and better understand the

Secondary Sources:

Avery, Daniel. "10 Queer Rebellions That Rocked America before Stonewall." Newsweek. June
29, 2019. https://www.newsweek.com/before-stonewall-riots-1445365.

This was published on June 23 2019 and written by Daniel Avery the source. It contains pictures
and different specific events that happened before the stonewall riots. This can be used to see
what the people of the LGBTQ community had to go through before stonewall.This article can
be used to show why the stonewall riots actually happened.

Franke-Ruta, Garance. "An Amazing 1969 Account of the Stonewall Uprising."

The Atlantic. June 18, 2019.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/01/an-amazing-1969-account-of-the-stonewau
prising/272467/.

This is a secondary source article by Garance Frankie-Ruta from “The Atlantic website”.
This overall summarizes the resistance at stonewall. It also contains a long excerpt from an
article released while the riots were going on by a gay jornalist at the time. We can use this
article to check facts and get a perspective from a gay jornalist during the stonewall riots.

Grudo, Gideon. "The Stonewall Riots: What Really Happened, What Didn't, and What Became
Myth." The Daily Beast. June 16, 2019.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-stonewall-riots-what-really-happened-what-didnt-and-
what-became-myth.

This source is written by Gideon Grudo the source. It was published on June 15th 2019 and
updated June 17th 2019. This source contains links to primary sources and detailed summary of
the events. It paints a picture of what life was like for the LGBTQ community before and after
the riots. The article also spotlights some individuals who were affected during the riots. And it
talks about some misconceptions that people have made about the stonewall riots.I can use this
article to see what the main contributors in the riots went through to obtain an acceptance in
America’s society.

Pruitt, Sarah. "What Happened at the Stonewall Riots? A Timeline of the 1969 Uprising."
History.com. June 13, 2019. https://www.history.com/news/stonewall-riots-timeline An
article by Sarah Pruitt who is the source is an author and editor that writes for the history
website. The article was written on June 13, 2019 and last edited in June 28, 2019.
This is a secondary source with pictures from the riots. It talks about the different incidents at
stonewall that began the riots in 1969 to the first gay pride parade the next year in 1970. It
 portrays times and dates where events happened during the riots. We can use the specific
dates and times to create an accurate timeline of specific individual events of the riots.

“Stonewall and LGBTQ Equity.” ​Anti-Defamation League​,

www.adl.org/education/resources/tools-and-strategies/stonewall-and-lgbtq-equity.

This source is an overview of how when and where the event took place. It gives quotes from
people and activists who were there.This is a secondary source from the Anti-Defamation
League. This source also gives additional resources and great ways to take action and make a
difference today.

Wolf, Sherry. "Stonewall: The Birth of Gay Power." Stonewall: The Birth of Gay Power
International Socialist Review. https://isreview.org/issue/63/stonewall-birth-gay-power.

This is an article by Sherry Wolf and it is talking about the riots at Stonewall. These quotes and
article are from when the incidents were taking a few pictures from the incidents. We can use
this to talk about the aftermath of the stonewall riots and how the stonewall riots affected the
LGBTQ community from then to today.

Process Paper - Rubric

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