Stonewall aesthetic

Stonewall riots, series of violent confrontations that began in the early hours of June 28, 1969, between police and gay rights activists outside the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City. As the riots progressed, an international gay rights movement was born.

It's been a long time coming.

Stonewall Inn New York NY.

Fifty years after the riots at the Stonewall Inn in New York's Greenwich Village gave birth to the modern gay rights movement, some in the city's transgender community say it hasn't shared in the progress gained by others. Violence, police harassment and job discrimination are still a daily struggle, they say.

A handlettered timeline of the riots at the Stonewall Inn, NYC, 1969.

From public performance to sexual fantasy, here's what characterizes the art made in the wake of the Stonewall Uprising.

A pretty, flowery drystone wall.