| 单词 | stonewall riot |
| 释义 | Stonewall RiotA disturbance that grew out of a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a popular hang-out for gays in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in 1969. Such raids long had been routine, but this one provoked a riot as the crowd fought back. The riot led to the formation of the Gay Liberation Front and to a new level of solidarity among homosexuals. Words nearby Stonewall Riotstone shoot, stone's throw, stonewall, stonewalling, Stonewall Jackson, Stonewall Riot, Stone walls do not a prison make, stoneware, stonewash, stonewashed, stonework The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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