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Pride Month: Stonewall’s real legacy and the struggle for liberation
The Stonewall riots are one of the major milestones in queer history. The Stonewall Inn was a bar in the Greenwich Village area of New York, frequented largely by the poorest members of the LGBT+ people in the area. The police had a long history of conducting violent raids on the Inn and harassing the LGBT+ clientele. On 28th June 1969, the police once again entered the Stonewall Inn, with the intent of shutting it down permanently. They began to arrest people in the bar, but met resistance.
QUB: Shameful history of gay conversion therapy
It was recently revealed that Queen's University Belfast performed 'aversion therapy' on gay students during the 1960s in an effort to produce 'heterosexual interest'. After one victim spoke out, a Queen's spokesperson expressed regret for the university's role in this damaging treatment. This is simply too little too late for the many vulnerable people that have already suffered.
