I like to think that the story of Stonewall is big enough for all the recollections and memories and inevitable myths that have taken shape in the five decades since Stonewall became a key turning point in the history of the LGBTQ civil rights movement and the birthplace of the gay liberation phase of the fight for equality. (I’m shocked now by what an incurious teenager I was back then.)īut there’s plenty about the raid on the Stonewall Inn and the subsequent uprising that’s less certain and often the focus of disagreements and heated debate. And the second, because I was 10 years old at the time and didn’t see Greenwich Village for the first time until I’d graduated from Hillcrest High School in Queens, New York, in June 1976. The first one, because the police report from that night states the time that the police entered the Stonewall Inn. on June 28, 1969, the New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, an unlicensed gay club in New York’s Greenwich Village. Episode Notesįrom Eric Marcus: At 1:20 a.m. Credit: Photo by Joseph Ambrosini/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images.
Young resistors on the first night of the Stonewall rebellion.
