SOCI 3432 Stonewall Uprising Discussion

Please click the link below and watch the documentary Stonewall Uprising. After watching

address the following questions in your reflection of the video.

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1. What is the significance of the Stonewall riots?

2. Can you discuss the implications this riot has had on the historical and contemporary fight to

gain rights for the LGBTQ community?

3. What were the stereotypes of gay men and women in the 1950s and 1960s? Were they

viewed as “deviants?”

4. How did the stereotypes and labels attributed to gay men and women at this time result in

their exclusion in society?