Read time:58 seconds

Our friends from i-D head to New York’s Sage Centre, an accessible and inclusive space for LGBT+ elders to celebrate their grassroots activism 50 years on from the Stonewall riots.

New York City, 1969. Being gay is considered a psychological disorder. Soliciting homosexual acts is a criminal offence, as is dressing in less than three elements of ‘gender appropriate’ clothing. Numerous police raids shut down underground gay bars and other LGBT+ spaces, provoking the unheard, unsettled and misrepresented community to take action. On the night of a raid on Greenwich Village’s Stonewall Inn, a landmark violent protest takes place, changing the course of culture in the following decades.

Fifty years later, the circumstances for NYC’s LGBT+ culture have changed exponentially. i-D celebrates the freedom given to today’s young LGBT+ population as a result of the previous generations’ fight and speaks to eyewitnesses from the riot and members of the elderly LGBT+ community at New York’s Sage Centre.

Host of the film Louis Bubko also finds out how far rights for the community have evolved over the half century.

About the author

Features Desk

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Close

Latest articles