The 1969 Stonewall Rts marked a historic turng pot for gay rights, but several smaller uprisgs preced Stonewall as LGBTQ muni phed back agast harassment and equaly.
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* first gay uprising *
Many people say the first gay rights prott the Uned Stat was the April 17, 1965 monstratn agast the ernment's firg of gay and lbian civil servants, cludg inic activist Frank Kameny.
Though that showg outsi the Whe Hoe was the most groundbreakg or memorable picket of s time, was actually preced by a prott that happened seven months earlier, on September 19, was the day Randy Wicker, Jefferson Poland, and eight other members of the Sexual Freedom League, six of them straight, gathered outsi the army's ductn center at 39 Whehall Street New York Cy to prott the armed forc's anti-gay discrimatn and plicy wch hunts.