This Day in History: June 28th, 1969 - anyone guess what happened?

[LynneSin]

I'll give one clue - it happened in NYC

[Richardo]

1. Stonewall?

Just guessing.

[LynneSin]

5. Ding Ding Ding: We have a winner

http://www.time.com/time/80days/690628.html

June 28, 1969
Standing Up for Gay Rights

By John Cloud

It was 1:20 a.m. when eight cops stomped into the Stonewall Inn, a dive in Manhattan's Greenwich Village district that had no liquor license but served watery drinks to a mix of drag queens, street kids, gay professionals and closeted and straight mafiosi (who ran the place). Within two hours, the Village was bleeding and burning as hundreds rioted.

How did the nightly saturnalia at Stonewall produce protests that would kick start the modern gay-rights movement? The uprising was inspirited by a potent cocktail of pent-up rage (raids of gay bars were brutal and routine), overwrought emotions (hours earlier, thousands had wept at the funeral of Judy Garland) and drugs. As a 17-year-old cross-dresser was being led into the paddy wagon and got a shove from a cop, she fought back. " hit the cop and was so stoned, she didn't know what she was doing—or didn't care," one of her friends later told Martin Duberman, author of the history Stonewall.

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[Archae]

2. Stonewall?

n/t

[sniffa]

3. i thought that was yesterday

[Pacifist Patriot]

7. You must have fantasized a day away.

[Pacifist Patriot]

4. The Stonewall Inn?

[GOPisEvil]

6. Stonewall was June 27th.

:) At least according to what I read in the newspaper yesterday.

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. I think it happened not long after midnight.

Maybe that's why the two dates are used?

[GOPisEvil]

12. Ah, ok, that makes sense.

:)

[sniffa]

10. see?

[LynneSin]

11. According to Time Magazine it was today

It was probably the evening of the 27th when it started but the riots started after midnight so technically it's the 28th

[underpants]

9. Archduke Ferdinand was also assassinated on this day

and WWI began

[Allenberg]

13. So this is where the slippery slope got started

:sarcasm:

[Deja Q]

14. And without Stonewall, there'd be no GLBT movement. Sadly,

it took people doing more than using leaflets destined to become paper airplanes or fireplace fodder to accomplish anything.

[LynneSin]

15. Kinda like the Woolworth Counter of the GLBT movement

sad that it had to resort to violence to finding get the public involved but hopefully much good has come from that!