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
• Stonewalling, a 2022 Chinese film edited by Liao Ching-sung

Games

• Stonewall: The Battle of Kernstown, a 1978 board wargame that simulates the First Battle of Kernstown
• 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 Columbus (formerly Stonewall Union), LGBTQ organization in Columbus, Ohio founded in 1981.
• 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 originally named after General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. Renamed Hotel 24 South in 2020.
• 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
• Stonewall House, an LGBTQ supportive housing development in Brooklyn, NY.

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