Stonewall GLBT button
- Image
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- Created Date
- 1925 - 1988
- Description
This button commemorates the Stonewall riots, which took place in 1969. The riots erupted following a police raid targeting the gay community on June 28 at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village area of New York City. The riots marked the beginning of the GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender) movement for civil rights. the button features an image of two fists. The text surrounding the image reads "STONEWALL MEANS FIGHT BACK! SMASH LESBIAN & GAY OPPRESSION".
- Creator
Fischer, Roger A
- Partner
- Minnesota Digital Library
- Contributing Institution
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Collection
- Collections Online
- Subjects
- Stonewall Riots, New York, N.Y., 1969
Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender
Politics and government
Badges, Buttons & Medals.Government.Political Movements & Causes
Button (information artifact) - Location
- Duluth
- Type
- image
- Format
- Artifacts
- Rights
- http://www.mnhs.org/copyright
- Chicago citation style
- Fischer, Roger A. Stonewall GLBT button. 1925 - 1988. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display?irn=10081396. (Accessed October 1, 2023.)
- APA citation style
- Fischer, Roger A, (1925 - 1988) Stonewall GLBT button. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display?irn=10081396
- MLA citation style
- Fischer, Roger A. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display?irn=10081396>.