It Happened At Stonewall
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By: Paul S Cilwa |
Occurred: 6/27/1969 |
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| How the LGBT movement got a kick start in a Greenwich Village bar. |
| Estimated reading time: 4 minute(s) (770 words) |
In 1950s and 1960s New York, there was an uneasy balance
struck between gay people's need to socialize and the preference of straight
society that there be no gay people. A result was the gay ghetto of
Greenwich Village, with its multitude of gay bars, and periodic raids by the
police of these bars. The feeling was not unlike that of a Russian Jew at the
end of the 1800s, trying to live a normal life in a usually peaceful village,
never knowing if this would be the night the Cossacks would come through and
imprison or kill him and his family.