June 28-29 New York, N.Y. Hundreds […]
When
1969-06-28 – 1969-06-29
Description
June 28-29 New York, N.Y. Hundreds of gay street people and drag queens fought back after a routine police raid on a Greenwich Village gay bar at 53 Christopher Street called the Stonewall Inn. Four policemen were injured; thirteen people were arrested. This protest marked the symbolic beginning of the modern gay liberation movement.
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Stonewall InnNew YorkAll Organizations
New York City Police DepartmentAll Citations
Lucian Truscott IV, "Gay Power Comes to Sheridan Square: View from Outside," Village Voice 14 (3 July 1969): 1,18.Howard Smith, "Full Moon Over the Stonewall: View from Inside," Village Voice 14 (3 July 1969): i, 25, 29;"Police Again Rout 'Village' Youths: Outbreak by 400 Follows a Near-riot over Raid," New York Times, late city ed,, 30 June 1969, sec. i, p. 22;"Policemen Hurt in 'Village' Raid," New York Times, late city ed., 29 June 1969, sec, i, p, 33;Martin Duberman, Stonewall (New York: Dutton, 1993), 330 pp.;
