A police raid on a Greenwich Village bar sparked the modern LGBTQ rights movement

In the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York police raided the Stonewall Inn, a Greenwich Village gay bar, as they had done many times before. This time patrons fought back, and the street confrontations that followed lasted several nights. The riots galvanized LGBTQ activism in the US, and the first Pride marches, held exactly a year later, trace directly back to that night.

— David Carter, Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution — 2004
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