Riots, Representation, and Results: What Does Stonewall Have to Do With Staten Island?

A community conversation on the relevance of the Stonewall Riot as a part of the long history of the Civil Rights Movement and a wave of popular uprisings. Join us at the Stapleton Library to learn more about Stonewall and help make local connections between the 1960s and Staten Island today. 

Throughout the 1960s, people around the United States were fighting for their lives, to be seen and to be heard. These included the race riots across many US cities, draft dodgers, the work of the Black Panthers, and The Young Lords, and the growing influence of feminism. Within all these upheaval was also the Stonewall Riots. While Stonewall is often understood as the kick off to the LGBTQ rights movement in the USA, it can also be seen as part of the longer story of civil rights work.

Theodore (ted) Kerr will facilitate a conversation about the history of Stonewall and help make local connections between the 1960s and Staten Island today. Kerr is a Canadian-born, Brooklyn-based writer, artist, and organizer and co-curator of METANOIA: Transformation through AIDS Archives and Activism on view at the NYC LGBT Center March 13 to April 11, 2019. 

To see the full list of Stonewall 50 programs taking place in branches, visit nypl.org/stonewall50

Major support of the Love & Resistance: Stonewall 50 exhibition and related programming is provided by The New York Community Trust, Hermes Mallea and Carey Maloney, and the TD Charitable Foundation and TD Bank. Additional support is provided by Time Warner and the Magnus Hirschfeld Endowment Fund.

Support for The New York Public Library’s Exhibitions Program has been provided by Celeste Bartos, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and Adam Bartos Exhibitions Fund, Jonathan Altman, and Miriam and Ira D. Wallach.

ASL interpretation and real-time (CART) captioning available upon request. Please submit your request at least two weeks in advance by emailing accessibility@nypl.org.