Routine matter. Some of the patrons were allowed to exit and some were detained. It was common for the police to detain bar owners, managers, bartenders, people of color,eople who transgressed gender that lingo of the day, transvestites or street greens, and people who talked a bad or fought back. Some people were detained inside the bar. Others began exiting the bar, but on that night and by this time it was the Early Morning hours of june 28, patrons began gathering on the streets outside. And as the police tried to bring those they had detained into police wagons, the crowd began to erupt. And over the next three nights there ensued rioting in the streets, protests demonstrations. , at one point police were trapped inside the bar until arrived, thes Tactical Police the riot control called and try to reestablish order on the streets, but the rioting proceeded over several days. Over the course of the next week. Steve but why this location . Why the Stonewall Inn why this , set of cir
Up next we hear from his for in an marc stein, editor of the stone wall riots. He spoke with us from greenwich village. Having to lie i feel is the saddest and the ugliest part of being a homosexual, when you have your first bad love experience, for instance, and you cant go to your brother or your sister and say im hurting. At first i was very guilty, and then i realized that all the things that are taught you not only by society, but by psychiatrists, are just to fit you in a mold. I just rejected the mold, and when i rejected the mold, i was happier. Independent organizations all across the country, there are somewhere between 60 and 75 independent groups across the United States, maybe more now. They keep growing up overnight and this is a unified effort on the part of some 20 or 30 organizations on the east coast. The differences primarily are approach. Certain groups, for example, tend to emphasize very militant confrontation tactics. Other groups will emphasize a more educationa
Then i realized all these things that are taught you, not only by society, but by psychiatrists fit you in a mold. And when i rejected the mold, i was happier. Independent organizations all over the country. Unified effort on the part of 20, 30 organizations on. He east coast use confrontation tactics. Other groups will use a more educational approach. People emphasize different things. Some groups [indiscernible] effort today is to change the social institutions [indiscernible] [chanting] the a portion of documentary. This is what the Stonewall Inn looks like today. Joining us from greenwich n,llage, new york, mark stei the editor of the stonewall riots a documentary history. Thank you for being on cspan. We appreciate it. Prof. Stein thank you. Host take us back 50 years ago this week. What happened . Prof. Stein police in that rated gay bars. There was actually a raid on the stonewall in a few days later. Andpolice began a raid, things proceeded in a fairly routine manner. Some patr
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