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    How the Stonewall riots changed health care

    "Without Stonewall we would have no AIDS activism, and without AIDS activism we would have no marriage equality..."
    by Michelle Edelstein-Rutgers Jun 24, 2019 1 minute
    stonewall inn with flowers and sign that says "stop the hate"

    June 28 marks the 50-year anniversary of the Stonewall riots—sparked when police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club in New York City—which are credited with launching the gay rights movement.

    “In many ways, the riots also brought attention to the unique health care needs of the gay population and served as a catalyst for the improvements in health care seen today—though we still have far to go,” says Perry N. Halkitis, dean of Rutgers School of Public Health and director of the school’s Center for Health, Identity, Behavior, and Prevention Studies.

    Halkitis, the author Out in Time: From Stonewall to Queer, How Gay Men Came of Age Across the Generations (Oxford University Press, 2019), addresses how Stonewall and the AIDS crisis have brought awareness and changes the ways the medical profession addresses health care of LGBTQ people.

    Here, he answers three central questions:

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