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On a hot summer night 1969, police raid the Stonewall Inn, a bar loted New York Cy’s Greenwich Village that served as a haven for the cy’s gay, lbian and transgenr muny.
At the time, homosexual acts remaed illegal every state except Illois, and bars and rtrants uld get shut down for havg gay employe or servg gay patrons. Most gay bars and clubs New York at the time (cludg the Stonewall) were operated by the Mafia, who paid rpt police officers to look the other way and blackmailed wealthy gay patrons by threateng to “out” them. Police raids on gay bars were mon, but on that particular night, members of the cy’s LGBTQ muny cid to fight back—sparkg an uprisg that would lnch a new era of ristance and revolutn.
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Acrdg to David Carter, historian and thor of Stonewall: The Rts That Sparked the Gay Revolutn, the “hierarchy of ristance” the rts began wh the homels or “street” kids, those young gay men who viewed the Stonewall as the only safe place their liv.
More and more supporters showed up, chantg slogans like “gay power” and “we shall overe. June 29-July 1, 1969: Stonewall be gatherg pot for LGBTQ the next several nights, gay activists ntued to gather near the Stonewall, takg advantage of the moment to spread rmatn and build the muny that would fuel the growth of the gay rights movement.
July 2, 1969: Gay activists prott newspaper rponse to the Village Voice’s verage of the rts, which referred to “the forc of faggotry, ” protters swarmed outsi the paper’s offic.