Stonewall

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Stonewall or Stone wall may refer to:

  • Stone wall, a kind of masonry construction
  • Stonewalling, engaging in uncooperative or delaying tactics
  • Stonewall riots, a 1969 turning point for the modern LGBTQ rights movement in Greenwich Village, New York City

Places

  • Stone Wall (Australia), an escarpment overlooking the Murchison River Gorge
  • Stonewall, Manitoba, Canada

United States

  • Stonewall, California, an 1870s mining camp in the Cuyamaca Mountains
  • Stonewall, Georgia
  • Stonewall, Louisiana
  • Stonewall, Mississippi
  • Stonewall, North Carolina
  • Stonewall, Oklahoma
  • Stonewall County, Texas
  • Stonewall, Texas, in Gillespie County
  • Stonewall, West Virginia

Arts and entertainment

  • Stonewall, a 1993 account of the Stonewall riots by Martin Duberman
  • Stonewall (1995 film), about the riots
  • Stonewall (2015 film), about the riots
  • Stonewall (comics), a character in the Marvel universe
  • Stonewall (opera), an opera commissioned by New York City Opera
  • Stonewall Book Award, a set of three literary awards
  • The Stonewall Chorale, an LGBT choir based in New York City, founded in 1979
  • The Stonewall Operas, four mini-operas commissioned by New York University
  • Stonewalling, a 2022 Chinese film edited by Liao Ching-sung

Games

  • Stonewall (solitaire)
  • Stonewall Attack, a chess opening
    • Stonewall Variation, in the Dutch Defence chess opening

Events

Military

  • CSS Stonewall, a French-built warship built for the Confederate States Navy
  • Operation Stonewall, a World War II military operation
  • Stonewall Brigade, an American Civil War Confederate unit
  • USS Stonewall Jackson (SSBN-634), a ballistic missile submarine

Organizations and landmarks

Australia

United Kingdom

  • Stonewall (charity), the largest British LGBT rights organisation, formed in 1989
  • Stonewall F.C., a British gay football team

United States

People

  • Erling Stonewall (died 1207), a 13th-century Norwegian pretender to the throne
  • Stonewall Jackson (1824–1863), American Civil War Confederate general, Professor of Physics, Virginia Military Institute
  • Stonewall Jackson (musician) (1932–2021), country musician

See also

Topics referred to by the same term
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