Straight ally and acclaimed author Lucian Truscott IV talks about covering the Stonewall riots for The Village Voice.

NEW YORK -- Whitehall and Pearl streets today are bustling with activity, but on Sept. 19, 1964 it was quiet, and what happened at that NYC intersection built momentum for the LGBT rights movement.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before Stonewall, before the Black Cat protests, there was the Compton’s Cafeteria riot. In August 1966 — the exact date is ...

Virginia Apuzzo Within days of the Stonewall riots, 28-year-old Virginia Apuzzo made her way from Riverdale, New York, where she was a novice at the Convent of Mount Saint Vincent, to New York City's ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to designate the Stonewall Inn at 51-53 Christopher Street in Manhattan as an individual landmark. The ...

“Stonewall is like the Kardashians,” Katherine Ott said. “It’s famous for being famous.” Ott is a curator, writer, speaker and more at the Smithsonian Institution. She’ll be speaking at the Badge of ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York are widely seen as the flash point in the fight for equal rights, but there were many events and people across the country that helped ignite the ...

On a special episode (first released on June 26, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Stonewall veterans helped ignite a global movement for LGBTQ+ rights. Now, over 50 years later, they’re battling a new ...

Viewers may have noticed some of the candidates speaking Spanish during the Democratic presidential debates this week. Well it didn't play well with some Californians. Former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke ...