Gay rights movement

Giving Stonewall too much credit misses the movement’s growing strength in the 1960s, sociologists note.

From NYC's first Pride parade in 1970 to a monumental Supreme Court ruling in 2020, here's a timeline of the LGBTQ rights movement in the US.

In 1969, a riot in a New York bar sparked a global rights movement. Half a century on, those involved in the Australian campaign tell SBS News what impact it had.

Che Gossett responds to Slavoj Žižek’s essay “The Sexual Is Political,” published in "The Philosophical Salon."

Vintage photographs of gay and lesbian couples and their stories.

In 1969, the New York Stonewall riots ignited a fire under the LGBT rights movement. Not only were LGBT citizens now demanding a more open and public position in society, but that visibility also led to a lot of backlash from the conservative side. That being said, the 1970s saw a lot of traction, momentum, and gains in the fight for equality. For example, the work of Evelyn Hooker forced the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from their list of mental disorders in…

“Stonewall was not the start of the LGBTQ civil rights movement,” historian Eric Marcus said of the 1969 uprising. “It was a key turning point.”

Exhibition dates: 15th June – 20th June 2019 Auction: 20th June, 2019 at 1:30pm Hank O’Neal (American, b. 1940) (photographer) Alan Ginsberg (American, 1926-1997) (writer)…