Washington Blad: “Julius’ Bar ‘sip-in’ laid groundwork for Stonewall”

“While Stonewall is widely considered the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ rights movement in the U.S., a lesser-known protest inside a Greenwich Village bar three years earlier helped lay critical groundwork for what would follow … Today, historians and advocates increasingly recognize the ‘sip-in’ as a key pre-Stonewall milestone. According to the New York City LGBTQ Historic Sites Project, the protest not only increased visibility of the early LGBTQ rights movement but also exposed widespread surveillance and entrapment tactics used against the community.

“Marking the 60th anniversary of the event, commemorations have taken place in New York and across the country.”

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Photo: Washington Blade photo by Ernesto Valle.