Very early in the morning on this day in 1969 the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich Village bar frequented by transvestites and others at the edge of the already highly marginalized homosexual community. They fought back… This is generally acknowledged as the marker for the beginning of the BGLT rights movement. The next year the first Gay Pride marches were organized in New York and Los Angeles to commemorate this day. Since then Pride parades have been organized... Read more