50 Years after Stonewall: The Legacies and Memory-making of the 1969 Riots

Deconstructing Stonewall in France What is “Stonewall”? A small bar in Manhattan. An historical event marked by rioting and police violence. A metonym for the radical turn in queer liberation. A romanticized, white-washed discourse riding the channels of US imperialism, erasing and reconfiguring local mobilization histories in its path. A mythical rereading of the past that reflects the social and political power of the people who created it. It is, undoubtedly, all of these things and much ...