Greetings podcast listeners. Welcome to another episode of my podcast.

52 years ago today is when the Stonewall Uprising began— the most significant event in the history of the gay liberation movement and the foundation of the modern fight for LGBTQ rights.

The Stonewall uprising, a series of clashes in New York City's Greenwich Village neighbourhood is now remembered as a pivotal event in the history of LGBTQ+ rights.

Leading to the first Gay Pride Parade a year later in 1970, in June, which since has formed the custom of Pride Month in June. All of those who participated in the six days of unrest in and around the Stonewall Inn has paved a path for the modern-day LGBTQ+ community. Two of the most significant figures from back in the day are Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, two transgender women at the centre of the uprising.

So, the event is actually most well known and titled the Stonewall Riots— which suggests one isolated and exclusively violent event, but with the benefit of context and historical knowledge, we know that the conflicts between the New York Police Department and gay rights protestors went on for days after the inciting incident.

I believe that LBGTQ+ education should be compulsory in all education systems and available to all.

That is my aim with this series of my podcast— to give as much of an LGBTQ+ inclusive education as I can, as a student myself, and not just in relation to the history of the community.

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