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Gay youth scuffle with police
The Stonewall riots (also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, or simply Stonewall) were a series of spontaneous demonstrations by members of the gay community in response to a police raid that began in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Patrons of the Stonewall, other Village lesbian and gay bars, and neighborhood street people fought back when the police became violent. The riots are widely considered the watershed event that transformed the gay liberation movement and the twentieth-century fight for LGBT rights in the United States.
- Most recent similar article(s): This page was featured June 28, 2009
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- Promoted: October 4, 2008
- Reasons for nomination: My first nomination; article is essential to understanding the modern LGBT rights movement in the United States and globally. Considered a major turning point for LGBT rights.
- Support as nominator. aaronneallucas (talk) 06:10, 24 May 2022 (UTC)