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=== Music === * Activist [[Madeline Davis]] wrote the folk song "Stonewall Nation" in 1971 after attending her first gay civil rights march. Released on [[Mark Custom Recording Service]], it is widely regarded as the first gay liberation record, with lyrics that "celebrate the resiliency and potential power of radical gay activism".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/50-songs-that-define-the-last-50-years-of-lgbtq-pride/?page=1|title=50 Songs That Define the Last 50 Years of LGBTQ+ Pride|date=June 18, 2018|access-date=June 25, 2018|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|last=Skolnik|first=Jes}}</ref> * The song {{" '}}69: Judy Garland", written by [[Stephin Merritt]] and appearing on ''[[50 Song Memoir]]'' by [[The Magnetic Fields]], centers on the Stonewall Riots and the idea{{refn|name="Garland"|group="note"}} that they were caused by the death of [[Judy Garland]] six days earlier, on June 22, 1969. * [[New York City Opera]] commissioned the English composer [[Iain Bell]] and American librettist [[Mark Campbell (librettist)|Mark Campbell]] in 2018 to write the opera ''[[Stonewall (opera)|Stonewall]]'' to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the riots, to be premiered on June 19, 2019 and directed by [[Leonard Foglia]].<ref>[https://www.apnews.com/0e85c930ae65415999a46d912356d404 "NY City Opera commissions Iain Bell work on Stonewall Riots"], [[Associated Press]], June 5, 2018</ref> * [[The Stonewall Celebration Concert]] is the debut studio album by [[Renato Russo]], released in 1994. The album was a tribute to twenty-five years of the Stonewall riots in New York. Part of the royalties was donated to Ação da Cidadania Contra a Fome, a Miséria e Pela Vida (Citizen Action Against Hunger and Poverty and for Life) campaign.
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