First came the civil rights movement to rectify hundreds of years of discrimination against African Americans, then the drive for women's rights, and protection for the disabled. The baby boomers began to flex their muscles in the late 1960s on many fronts. Professor Whaley is also among the speakers who will be participating in a public panel discussion after the film on Thursday, October 7. But how did the movement get started and grow in Columbus? Douglas Whaley, Professor of Law Emeritus at Ohio State, offers these reflections. The new documentary film Stonewall Uprising, screening at the Wex on October 7–8, tells that story. A police raid on a Greenwich Village bar, the Stonewall Inn, on June 28, 1969, and the riots that followed launched the modern gay rights movement.
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