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How the New York media covered the Stonewall riots

  • Written by Chad Painter, Assistant Professor of Communications, University of Dayton
Staffers at The Village Voice were able to see the riots unfold from the news room.Osugi/Shutterstock.com

The Stonewall riots were a six-night series of protests that began in the early morning of June 28, 1969, and centered around the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City.

Four days earlier, on June 24, 1969, the police, led by Deputy Inspector...

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