Social justice advocates are creating a queer history archive that celebrates Bayard Rustin, a major organizer in the Civil Rights Movement and key architect of the March on Washington.

As we all know, February is Black History Month, so it’s a great time to brush up on Black history and educate yourself.

As we all know, February is Black History Month, so it’s a great time to brush up on Black history and educate yourself.

Netflix‘13th’Directed by Ava DuVernay (she’ll come up again in this list), the documentary shows you how America changed after the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, but also kickstarted the prison boom in America. ‘Moonlight’This Oscar-winning picture tells the story of a young black gay man living in Miami. chronicles the Central Park Five, a group of young black teenagers who were wrongfully convicted of a crime they didn’t commit. The documentary tells the story of the days of protests, unrest and riots that followed. It’s a great film that shows how two different groups of people can react to fatal police shootings.

Police were notorious for raiding bars in the West Village and downtown Manhattan, havens for the LGBTQ community, that were suspected of serving homosexual customers. If you sat at a gay bar, you could not turn around, Tree said. It reopened with new money thanks to members of the Genovese crime family syndicate and became popular in the LGBTQ community. The rebellion mobilized the LGBTQ community and its allies in a way not yet seen. In 2011, New York State legalized same-sex marriage, becoming the sixth state at that time to do so.