DB

 please respond to the following prompt after watching the documentary film “American Experience: Stonewall Uprising,” which is available for streaming through the Auraria Library website:

1. The events at Stonewall are sometimes described as a “riot” and sometimes as an “uprising.” The creators of the film “American Experience: Stonewall Uprising” characterize the events as an “uprising.”  

a. What is the difference between a “riot” and an “uprising” in our everyday usage of the terms, and why do you think the filmmakers chose the term “uprising” for the film’s title? 

b. What makes this question more than an exercise in semantics—in other words, why is it historically and politically meaningful to consider this nuance in terminology? 

2. The Stonewall Uprising is a watershed moment in the history of LGBTQ rights in the United States. Visit this slideshow identifying 26 key moments in this history, choose one event, use additional resources to explain what it was and why it mattered, and provide links to one or more of the resources that you used to learn about your event: https://www.politico.com/gallery/26-gay-rights-milestones?slide=8

In your response to DB8, explicitly cite the film “American Experience: Stonewall Uprising” and at least TWO of the readings from Weeks 12-14 (i.e. 2 readings altogether from across those weeks, not two readings per week).