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Jun 13, 2019 · June 27-28, 1969: Stonewall crowd erupts after police arrest and rough up patrons. After midnight on an unseasonably hot Friday night, the Stonewall was packed when eight plainclothes or...
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May 31, 2017 · The Stonewall Riots, also called the Stonewall Uprising, took place on June 28, 1969, in New York City, after police raided the Stonewall Inn, a local gay club.
Aug 22, 2024 · Stonewall riots, series of violent confrontations that began in the early hours of June 28, 1969, between police and gay rights activists outside the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City.
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The Stonewall riots, also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, Stonewall revolution, [3] or simply Stonewall, were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.
Jun 17, 2019 · When half a dozen police officers raided a Mafia-run gay bar on a hot New York night 50 years ago, little did they know their actions would spark a movement that reshaped the lives of...
Jun 17, 2019 · So what happened to Mark Segal, the teenager handed the chalk by his friend Marty? When the Stonewall was raided, he had only been in New York for six weeks and was staying at the YMCA for $6 a...
Mar 7, 2024 · In 1969, a series of riots over police action against The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, changed the landscape of homosexual society quite literally overnight. Since then, the term 'Stonewall' itself has become almost synonymous with the struggle for gay rights.
