When police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in New York City’s Greenwich Village, on June 28, 1969, the street erupted into violent protests that lasted for days. The Stonewall riots, as they came to be known, marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement in the United States and around the world.
Told through first-hand interviews, STONEWALL UPRISING recalls the fervently hostile climate in which the gay community was forced to live—and the uprising that launched the gay rights movement.