![]() ![]() Others say it was a cross dressing person of color. Some say it was a drag queen who threw the first punch after the ” police roughed up a woman dressed in masculine attire (believed to be lesbian activist Stormé DeLarverie)”. ![]() Accounts differ over what exactly started it. Instead, as we all know, the crowd erupted into a riot. The objective was to shutdown the Stonewall Inn permanently. This time, arresting now only the regular patrons but targeting the drag queens and cross-dressing clientele because “masquerading” as a member of the opposite sex was a crime. The night before, the police conducted a raid, arresting employees and taking away the Inn’s illegal stash of liquor. They had been harrassing the clientele before but this time was different. On Jand into June 28 at midnight, the NYC police entered the Stonewall Inn which was tightly packed that hot summer night. ![]()
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