LGBT Community
On June 27, 1969, a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York City resulted in rioting by more than 400 people in the streets outside the inn (Police Again Rout ‘Village’ Youths Outbreak by 400 Follows a Near-Riot Over Raid, 1969). The raid is said to have been due to the illegal sale of alcohol, but today it is widely known to have been a tactic of intimidation born of fear and prejudice against the LGBT community. The […]