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Originally Posted by JWBear
The Stonewall riot, while significant, wasn’t the first. There was one 3 years earlier at Gene Compton’s Café in San Francisco. Also, the gay rights movement didn’t start with Stonewall
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I agree. The emphasis placed on the word "modern" in my original post was intended to suggest that.
Daughters of Bilitis and the
Mattachine Society (to mention just a couple) were around long before the Stonewall Rebellion.