Stonewall Rebellion by aLex Cruz

Date of event: last weekend of June 1969 but is ongoing every year
Took Place: Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street in New York

The Stonewall Rebellion is an event that technically took place during the last weekend of June 1969, but it continued on into the 1970's. It first began with the homophobia of policemen and the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board in June of 1969, decided to infiltrate a gay bar, The Stonewall Inn(on Christopher Street in NY). They went in there claiming that they were looking for infractions of alcohol control laws. After the police checked IDs, they threw everyone out of the bar one by one. All the of the club goers were sick of always having this done to them that they decided to take a stand and fight back. Someone used a parking meter to barricade the door, thus the Police and the agents from the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board were trapped inside the bar. The police and agents destroyed the bar and called reinforcements. As the reinforcements came someone started a fire. 3 days later people started to protest for Gay Rights.
During the summer of that year 5 Gay Liberation Fronts were founded, in New York, NY; Berkeley, CA; Los Angeles, CA; San Francisco, CA; and San Jose, CA. By 1970 over 300 Gay Liberation Fronts were created. The first commemoration demonstration of the Stonewall Rebellion was held in August of 1969 in New York. Marches were then held in 1970 in New York and Los Angeles on the anniversary of the Stonewall and has become a tradition ever since. It is now know as the Gay Parade. They happen all over the US and the world. This march is a turning point in many LGBTQQ...(more letters are added but I don't know them all. Has my councillor Shanda Young says that it's an alphabet now.) people. It is when a lot of them came out of the closet and showed their power in numbers. Thus a pride was created in the LGBTQQ... community.

All in all, the Stonewall Rebellion was a defining moment for the LGBTQQ.... community, since it helped launch the Gay Rights movement. This lead them to realize that they were being attacked as a group than individually and then decided to organize as a group and fight for their rights.