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mahatmakanejeeves

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Wed Jun 28, 2023, 04:51 AM Jun 2023

On June 28, 1969, the Stonewall riots began.

Fri Jun 26, 2020: On June 28, 1969, the Stonewall riots began.

Making all those court decisions on June 26 decades later the icing on the cake.

Stonewall riots

The Stonewall riots (also referred to as the Stonewall uprising or the Stonewall rebellion) were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBT) community in response to a police raid that began in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Patrons of the Stonewall, other Village lesbian and gay bars, and neighborhood street people fought back when the police became violent. The riots are widely considered to constitute one of the most important events leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States.

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This photograph appeared in the front page of The New York Daily News on Sunday, June 29, 1969, showing the "street kids" who were the first to fight with the police.

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