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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 riots and 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.
The Stonewall Inn (also known as Stonewall) is a gay bar and recreational tavern at 53 Christopher Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.It was the site of the 1969 Stonewall riots, which led to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States.
Christopher Street is the site of the Stonewall Inn, the bar whose patrons fought back violently in June 1969 against a police raid, sparking the Stonewall riots that are widely seen as the birth of the gay liberation movement. [9]
Stonewall Inn, the iconic site of the 1969 riots, may be forced to shut down. Alexander Kacala. June 26, 2020 at 6:22 PM ... Our movement literally started at a bar, at the Stonewall Inn in 1969 ...
On June 27, 1969, the NYPD conducted a raid on the inn, now operating as a gay bar, under the pretense that the inn did not have a liquor license. Riots started in the ensuing days, where thousands of rioters protested against the NYPD's raid. [5] [6]: 35–36 The riots solidified the Stonewall Inn's status as a gay icon. [5]
New York City's first gay pride march, then called Christopher Street Liberation Day, was held on June 28, 1970, the first anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall uprising.
The Gay Liberation Monument is part of the Stonewall National Monument, which commemorates the Stonewall uprising of 1969. Created in 1980, the Gay Liberation sculpture by American artist George Segal was the first piece of public art dedicated to gay rights and solidarity for LGBTQ individuals, while simultaneously commemorating the ongoing struggles of the community. [1]
The department admits it was "wrong" to storm into a bar 50 years ago to enforce a discriminatory law that made it illegal to serve alcohol to gay people.