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Stonewall or Stone wall usually refers to:
- Stone wall, a kind of masonry construction
- Stonewalling, engaging in uncooperative or delaying tactics
The terms may also refer to:
Places
- Stone Wall (Australia), a geologic feature in Australia
- Stonewall (LYNX station), a rail station in Uptown Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
- Stonewall, California, United States, an 1870s mining camp in the Cuyamaca Mountains
- Stonewall, Louisiana, United States
- Stonewall, Mississippi, United States
- Stonewall, North Carolina, United States
- Stonewall, Oklahoma, United States
- Stonewall, Texas, United States
- Stonewall, West Virginia, United States
- Stonewall, Manitoba, Canada
- Stonewall County, Texas, United States
People
- Stonewall Jackson (musician) (b. 1932), country musician
- Stonewall Jackson (1824–1863), American Civil War Confederate general
- Erling Stonewall, a 13th-century Norwegian pretender to the throne
Art, entertainment, and media
Fictional characters
- Stonewall (comics), a comic book character in the Marvel universe
Film
- Stonewall (1995 film), a 1995 film about the Stonewall riots
- Stonewall (2015 film),
- Stonewall & Riot: The Ultimate Orgasm (2006), a superhero-pornographic 3D animated film created by Joe Phillips
- Stonewall Uprising (2010), a documentary film about the Stonewall riots
- Before Stonewall, 1984 documentary film about the LGBT community up to the time of the Stonewall riots
- After Stonewall, 1999 documentary film about three decades of LGBT activism following the Stonewall riots
Games
- Stonewall (solitaire), a solitaire card game
- Stonewall structure, structure of pawns in the chess opening theory:
- Stonewall Attack, a chess opening
- Stonewall Variation in the Dutch Defence, a chess opening
Literature
- Stonewall (1993), Martin Duberman's firsthand account of the Stonewall riots and the birth of the modern gay rights movement
Music
- Groups
- The Stonewall Chorale, an LGBT choir based in New York City, founded in 1979
Enterprises
- Stonewall Inn
- Stonewall National Museum & Archives (SNMA), a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization that promotes understanding through preserving and sharing the proud culture of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their significant role in society
- Stonewall of Miami Beach, a mixed disco that hosted Wild Side Story (1974)
Events
- Stonewall riots, in 1969, a turning point for the modern gay rights movemen
Military
- Operation Stonewall, a World War II military operation
- Stonewall Brigade, a unit in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War
Organizations
- Stonewall (charity), a gay rights organisation formed in 1989
- National Stonewall Democrats, a Washington-based LGBT rights group affiliated with the Democratic Party
- Stonewall F.C., a British gay football team
- Stonewall Young Democrats, also known as SYD, a youth-based organization across the country which are part of the GLBT-rights group in the United States, affiliated with the National Stonewall Democrats and with the Democratic Party
Ships
- CSS Stonewall, a French built warship
- USS Stonewall Jackson (SSBN-634), a ballistic missile submarine
See also
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