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![]() Some transgender participants said that organizers asked them to march in the back, but they refused. There were gay groups from Washington, D.C., and Boston, and college organizations from Rutgers, Yale and Columbia. When they started off, the marchers were few and brave. The following year, June 28, 1970, people gathered just outside the Stonewall Inn for the Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day March. But within a few days, flyers were already circulating that referenced Stonewall and called for a new kind of movement that wasn't polite and wouldn't stay in the shadows. That designation often goes to the Snake Pit Riot, which lead to a man's death. In response, the protesters slashed police car tires and broke the windows of businesses.īut Stonewall wasn't the only protest during that time - and it wasn't even the most intense. ![]() In 1969, the NYPD used billy clubs against protesters outside The Stonewall In, a gay bar. The Stonewall Uprising, which some refer to as riots, was several days of demonstrations against police violence and systemic discrimination that could have been ripped from today's headlines. And if we hadn't done that, nobody would remember the Stonewall today," said Karla Jay, the first woman chair of the Gay Liberation Front and a retired women's and gender studies professor at Pace University. ![]() "We set out to create a march on the first anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising.
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