Stonewall Riots, New York, N.Y., 1969

Scope Note: 670 __ |a Wikipedia, via WWW, July 23, 2004 |b (The Stonewall riots were a series of violent conflicts between homosexuals and police officers in New York City. The riot began not long after 1:20 a.m. on Saturday, June 28, 1969, when police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village. "Stonewall," as it is often called, is considered the start of the modern gay rights movement worldwide.) 670 __ |a Britannica concise encyc., via WWW, July 23, 2004 |b (Stonewall riots: Series of violent confrontations between police and gay rights activists in New York City. In response to the second raid in a week by police on the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in Greenwich Village that had been selling liquor without a license, about 1,000 transvestites, gays, and lesbians taunted police and threw debris; police responded with violence. Similar riots occurred on succeeding nights and were followed by protest rallies.) 670 __ |a The new dictionary of cultural literacy, via WWW, July 23, 2004 |b (Stonewall Riot. A disturbance that grew out of a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a popular hang-out for gays in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village in 1969. Such raids long had been routine, but this one provoked a riot as the crowd fought back. The riot led to the formation of the Gay Liberation Front and to a new level of solidarity among homosexuals.)

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