#stonewall-riots

#stonewall-riots

The Wisconsin school board that threatened to ban a music composition because it honored an LGBTQ+ hero made good on their threat Tuesday night with a near-unanimous vote. At an emotional board meeting in Watertown that erupted in screaming matches among parents, board members, and students, members voted 7-1 to remove the symphonic work honoring Marsha P. Johnson, a prominent participant in the Stonewall Riots in 1969, from a scheduled May 18 performance by students, Wisconsin Public Radio reports.

The piers transformed into underground spaces for cruising and creativity, empowering a community in a burgeoning era of self-expression following the Stonewall Riots.