Stonewall
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
Games
- Stonewall (solitaire)
- Stonewall Attack, a chess opening
- Stonewall Variation, in the Dutch Defence chess opening
Events
- Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC 2019, events marking the fiftieth anniversary of the riots
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
- Stonewall Resources, an Australian mining company
United Kingdom
- Stonewall (charity), the largest British LGBT rights organisation, formed in 1989
- Stonewall F.C., a British gay football team
United States
- Stonewall (Rocky Mount, North Carolina), a NRHP-listed plantation house
- Stonewall Democrats, a United States Democratic Party caucus
- Stonewall Young Democrats, an affiliated youth-based organization
- Stonewall Inn, site of the 1969 Stonewall riots in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City
- Stonewall National Monument, a park and landmark adjacent to the inn
- Stonewall Jackson Hotel, a hotel in Staunton, Virginia named after General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
- Stonewall of Miami Beach, a mixed disco that hosted the 1974 Wild Side Story
- Stonewall National Museum and Archives, an LGBT museum and library in Fort Lauderdale, Florida not directly related to the inn or the riots
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
- Stonewall Uprising (2010), a documentary film
- Before Stonewall, a 1984 documentary film
- After Stonewall, a 1999 documentary film
- Montreal's Stonewall, a 1990 police raid on Sex Garage
- Dry stone, a method of building without mortar
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