Hello and welcome to Queeros Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world and throughout time.

I'm Alice. I'm Jason. I'm Eli. And today, in honor of their 50th anniversary, we're talking about the Stonewall riots.

Before we start, we have some content warnings for this episode.

Obviously, this episode is largely centered around police, harassment and violence against queer people.

It also includes broader period typical queer phobia and discrimination, including

brief mentions of imprisonment and institutionalisation.

It also includes historical racism, sexism and classism, and modern-day transphobia within and beyond the queer movement,

as well as mentions of guns, sex work, homelessness, and drug use.

This episode will also include swearing and the use of queerphobic slurs in quotes,

as well as outdated language to describe queer identities, both in quotes and when explaining the thinking and attitudes of the time.

I also want to note that using a mixture of she-her and he-him pronouns was very common amongst

queer people in the 1960s. I've chosen to use pronouns most commonly used for each

individual person in primary sources. That doesn't mean they're the pronouns they exclusively used.

This also means for the sake of consistency in that decision that I'll be referring to Stormy

Delavier, who I've previously referred to in our episode on her using they-them pronouns, using

she-her pronouns.

Speaking of Stormy Delavier, I'd also encourage you to check out an episode on her as well as

episode on Marsha P. Johnson before listening to this episode for some background on these people and

also just on queer life at the time we're going to be talking about. I'd also like to welcome

Jason to their second ever history episode of this podcast. I'm glad to be back. Sometimes it's

very hard to get us all in one room and so we have Jason instead of Irene today. In terms of

sources for this episode, we have a wealth of Irene today. In terms of sources for this

...