Wanna get the story of the Stonewall Uprising right from someone who was actually there??
Well look no further!! HTBQ has got you covered!
This week, in the first episode of our Pride Month series, we are in conversation with Martin Boyce, who was there irl on that infamous day that Stonewall was raided and kick started what we know today as Pride!
"Martin Boyce is a Stonewall Riot (Uprising) activist, sharing the story of one of the most pivotal queer/trans action in history.
The Stonewall Riots (also known as the Stonewall Uprising or the Stonewall Rebellion) were a series of spontaneous demonstrations by members of the gay community in response to a police raid that began in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighbourhood of New York City. Patrons of the Stonewall, other Village 2SLGBTQIA+ bars, and neighbourhood street people fought back when the police became violent. The riots are widely considered a watershed event that transformed the gay liberation movement and the twentieth-century fight for LGBT rights in Canada and the United States."
Visit International Day of Pink's Stonewall page for more!
Quick content warning: some descriptions of violence and slurs used.
An immense thank you to the International Day of Pink for arranging this conversation and sponsoring this episode alongside the Embassy of the United States!
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Extra resources from Martin:
Read Martin’s New York Times Interview
Read Martin’s interview in USA today
Read the PBS interview with Martin
Read Martin’s interview in Teen Vogue here
Listen to Martin’s story on Making Gay History’s podcast
Watch the LGBTCentre of NYC documentary of Stonewall with Martin
Watch the New York Times Documentary here
Watch Martin in the documentary (wiki page) here for free with your local library card
Watch Martin in the news clip from WCBS
Watch Martin in the mini-documentary from The Moth.
Watch Martin in the Stonewall Oral History Project.