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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.
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]
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 28, 1969, an 18-year-old Mark Segal was one of the many LGBTQ people outside Stonewall Inn, where a stand was being taken against the latest police raid of one of the community’s few ...
Frédéric André Sargeant (born July 29, 1948) [1] is a French-American gay rights activist and a former lieutenant with the Stamford, Connecticut Police Department. [2] He participated in each of the nights of the 1969 Stonewall riots and was one of the four co-founders of the first NYC Pride March march in Manhattan in 1970.
The Stonewall Visitor Center will be located at the same site of the June 1969 uprising that is largely credited as a turning point in the modern gay rights movement.
As deputy inspector, he led the police raid on the Stonewall Inn, which took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969. The resulting Stonewall riots helped spark the development of the nascent gay rights movement in the United States .